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Through Your Loss Comes The Strength to Grow Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or follows a long battle with illness, there is no way to prepare for the loss of someone close. Grieving is painful, but you have a choice in how you cope with grief and most importantly how you adapt to the intense loss you've experienced. Grief counseling expert Dr. Louis LaGrand describes 101 tips and prescriptions to help mourners through their tragic loss....
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For over forty years, Bel Mooney has been one of this country's best-loved journalists and authors, and her hugely popular Daily Mail advice column reaches six million people every week. Far from being a detached and abstract figure, Bel doesn't shy away from sharing her own life experiences of grief, forgiveness and joy with her devoted readers, making her column at once both distinctly personal and thoroughly universal in relevance. A lifeline for...
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Women and grief
Death is always sudden. It rips people out of their usual routine and turns their life upside down from one second to the next. In death, it makes no difference whether the bereaved have been able to prepare themselves for the death of a loved one for some time or whether the news hits them suddenly and unexpectedly. When someone close to you dies, it always feels as though the rug has been pulled out from under your feet. Sure, it's...
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There are many reasons why people grieve. In my case, I had the sudden loss of my two children who were killed in a car accident, and I was badly injured, when we were hit by a drunk driver. There are certain basic similarities to what happens to us when we suffer a devastating loss. There are patterns or stages that many of us have heard about. But I fully believe that every experience of grief is unique to the individual who goes through it. So...
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The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
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This is a story I never intended to tell. It is a somber, excruciating, painful story. After surviving betrayal, deception, and the mysterious death of a loved one, I knew deep in my heart, I needed to write a book about how it is possible to rebuild a life. The incubation period began years ago after my family tragedy. When I looked for guidebooks to help me rebuild a new life infrastructure, I couldn't find any with tips about moving on. I was uncertain...
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ARE YOU AFRAID OF DEATH?
What is death? Is it the end, the beginning, or a transition?
Why are we so afraid of death? After all, death is inevitable.
"Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems" helps us reduce and overcome our fears without having to change our beliefs about death.
It is written for:
• The Devout, the Agnostic and the Atheist
• Baby Boomers, GenX'ers and Millennials
• Everyone!
What you will...
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Every year, some two million parents in the US suffer the death of a son or daughter. The unnatural sequence of the child's preceding the parent in death creates a wrenching loss and overwhelming emotional and spiritual disorientation. Most of these bereaved parents find relief from their isolation only in the company of others like themselves. The Grieving Garden offers support, understanding, and, ultimately, comfort and hope from those who have...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The stoplights are out on Wilshire and all along San Vicente approaching Cedars-Sinai. I am driving with my hazards on so the cars behind me don't honk. Hal is sitting next to me, padded with pillows so the seatbelt doesn't press against his abdomen. I learned this trick after my C-section when our twin daughters were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.
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Un livre qui vous apporte du réconfort pour affronter cette épreuve!
Le deuil qui suit la perte d'un être cher soulève bien des réactions et suscite de nombreux questionnements.
Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs répondent franchement et simplement aux questions qui leur sont posées le plus souvent, espérant procurer aux personnes en deuil l'information, le soutien et le réconfort dont elles ont tant besoin.
Les questions et les réponses abordées...
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Sandy Peckinpahs sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis her life changed forever. She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her,...
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How do you become an expert of your own grief when a loved one dies?
Erik Lewin shares how he turned the profound loss of his mother and father into life-changing growth, with intimacy, warmth and humor. He offers a no-nonsense, commonsense way to create your personal path to acceptance of your loss.
Lewin became an expert in his grief experience twice over, encouraging readers to find their own way, as no two lives or losses are the same. He eschews...
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Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In 'Without My Mum', Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking and others heartwarming, yet is ultimately comforting and inspiring. With genuine warmth and candor, Leigh...
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No Time for Tears is a new kind of guide, rich with information and real-life stories, to help not only people struggling through grief due to the loss of a loved one but also those who counsel them. Psychotherapist Judy Heath draws on her experiences in private practice and in her own life, as well as years of research, to address the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation about grief that still abound today. She notes that while popular scholarship...
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Russell Friedman and John W. James are the exclusive providers of grief and grief-recovery related content on a memorial website called Tributes.com, which receives approximately 1.5 million hits per month. In addition to providing helpful articles on recovery from loss, they answer grief-related questions submitted by visitors to the site, The questions are unique and personal, and represent the gamut of emotions experienced by grievers in the aftermath...
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In May 1951, a car, loaded with bootleg whiskey and traveling without lights, ran a stop sign at a West Texas country crossroads and collided with an ordinary cotton farming family. Five adults died that night, including Elva Edwards' mother, Pearle, her father, Calvin, and her beloved Granny Rogers. One-year-old Elva and her 3-year-old sister somehow survived. The girls grew up on the farm with their Edwards' grandparents whose lives were forever...
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Surviving suicide loss is often about telling the story. Each person who dies by suicide leaves behind a life shared with loved ones and a series of events that led to the suicide. Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved features the stories of fourteen people in their own words of the losses that have forever changed their lives. These stories describe the endurance of traveling through grief. In addition, the proceeds from the book benefit...
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Widowhood Is Not Funny is a Guidebook for the new widow. The new life of a widow is a damn hard journey and the best travel guide is another widow. This Guidebook is written by someone who has been there and done that, someone who has been through the Five Stages of Grief and knows how difficult life is after losing one's husband. The new widow needs help from someone who knows how to get to acceptance. A New Widow especially needs to know she's not...
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Whole Heart Grief is a short guide to understanding grief after the loss of a loved one, written by a grief counselor and mother who experienced the loss of her son to leukemia. Through sharing her personal experience and giving hypothetical examples, the author leads readers in a caring and practical discussion of grief and loss. Most sections are followed by exercises, called worksheets, for readers to fill out with their personal experiences, goals,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was sent to help find a missing six-year-old girl near Masquinongy Pond. The parents were worried about their daughter, and the parents loved their child.
#2 I dial my house to hear my children's voices. It's early in the search, and there's hope. I know not to anticipate or plan for these calls. Hope and grief typically present themselves in novel ways every time.
#3...
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