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Experiencing grief and the death of a person we love is painful.
But at the same time it is a part of live we all have to go through.
On this unabridged audiobook the author offers practical ideas, research, life tips, and creative and mindfulness-based practices to guide you through grief and loss. You'll learn:
Buy this audiobook now to understand and overcome loss and grief for a balanced life.
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As health professionals we must support patients and their families, carers and friends as they grapple with their personal experiences of loss and grief. In this insightful program we take a holistic approach to understanding and responding to loss and grief. We speak frankly with Christine McMahon, who lost her only son in Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, about her personal experience of extreme loss and grief. Experts in counselling...
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Are you struggling to deal with the loss of a loved one? Have you been isolating yourself, experiencing overwhelming grief, and living with the fear that you may never heal from this excruciating pain? Do you want to get your hands on a warmhearted, effective, and practical book that will help you embrace your journey and live a fulfilling life again?
Research shows that for the past three years 57% of adults have admitted to grieving the loss of...
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Learn creative strategies to thoughtfully navigate grief and loss.
Drawing on his occupational therapy perspective and experience as an author and creator, Zander Masser offers an interactive workshop that reconnects you with loved ones you have lost and helps you to experience catharsis through collecting and sharing your loved ones’ stories. Zander breaks down his creative process into concrete steps, provides examples of each step from his own...
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"Having experienced grief from both sides-- as a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner-- Devine writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, 'happy' life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it."--Page 4 of...
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No stranger to heartache, Carole Holiday artfully braids together her story of overwhelming loss with biblical insights and delicious recipes from the little cottage on the lane—the cooking school she once owned. Carole's journey offers hope that after the ravages of grief and despair, God can bring good back to life through faith, food, and fellowship.
How do you survive when everything that gave meaning to your life
...9) My husband is not a rainbow: the brutally awful, hilarious truth about life, love, grief, and loss
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From TEDx speaker, writer, and involuntary widow, Kelley Lynn, comes the real life story of love, loss, and what happens when your husband leaves for work one ordinary Wednesday and never comes home. In "My Husband Is Not a Rainbow," Lynn gives you a front row seat into the grief tsunami (please don't call it a 'journey') that busted through her young and happy marriage, shattering her world to pieces, and stealing the only life she knew. This brutally...
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Aging well might be an ambiguous phrase but it does have meaning, especially for people over 60. This program tells the stories of five vibrantly alive seniors who have successfully navigated through momentous life changes. Their examples highlight important precepts for staying mentally healthy, showing how mental health is a key to successful aging. In interviews and in footage of these men and women engaged in various activities, the program provides...
14) Freak magnet
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Two teenagers, both burdened by grief and loss, find each other and gradually develop a strong connection to one another.
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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
16) Bird in a box
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In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.
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"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
18) Out of order
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Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.
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"Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this book collects the poet's best writings on grief and loss in one place for the first time. The result is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives, as well as a compilation of sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence. Following the format of Rilke's classic, Letters to a Young Poet, this volume...