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Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss
Daily Meditations for Those Who Are Grieving
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When we lose someone close, it’s easy to feel unmoored. We need to find a new rhythm to our days and new ways to connect to the ones we’ve lost. Ashley Davis Bush wrote this book to offer you just that: small doses of comfort and hope for getting through your day when you are still heavy with...
by RICHARD Neil
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Africans are a deep cultural people who notoriously stick to their traditional customs and beliefs from birth to death even if at times the beliefs defy any logic. This book attempts to expose some of these beliefs, norms and values that are the clay that moulds these people originating from the horned continent, especially from south of the Sahara desert.
Without a Manual
The reflections of a woman in her forties determined to live her fullest life, while facing terminal illness
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention of keeping friends updated on her health. Over time, and with feedback from an ever-increasing number of readers. Without a Manual evolved into a wry...
by Gloria Ng
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
‘As a Buddhist “mother” of two “children,” I was shocked to receive the news of their death both times. How could they have passed away before me? How could they have gone when they were at the prime of their life? Distraught, I could not let a piece of me die with them. Nor could I let...
Widows and Divorcees in Later Life
On Their Own Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Get a fresh perspective on how older women adapt to life without a spouse!
Widows and Divorcees in Later Life: On Their Own Again examines new perspectives on the problems older women face adjusting to life without a spouse. The book examines the transition from the togetherness of marriage...
Expressive Writing for Healing
Journal Your Way From Grief to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” —C. Day-Lewis
Writing is one of the oldest and most effective means of self-exploration, self-expression, and self-discovery. In this new guided journal, Mary Potter Kenyon offers readers an opportunity to reflect...
The Lotos-Eaters
Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based on years of participant observation in "the Sands," a beautiful ocean community of well-off individuals and couples seeking the easy life. Yet the community members contend...
Stay, Breathe with Me
The Gift of Compassionate Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
• The number of American adults aged 65 years and older is expected to double within the next 25 years. • According to the World Health Organization, cancer rates are expected to surge 57% worldwide in the next 20 years. At some point, all of us will be affected by serious illness directly or...
Thy Son Liveth
Messages from a World War I Soldier to His Mother from the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
A message of comfort for grieving readers, this remarkable story recounts a mother's supernatural contact with a son who perished on a Flanders battlefield during World War I. Its simple message, as expressed in one of the soldier's communications, is that "There is no death. Life goes on without...
by Brian M. Holmes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Por miles de años, se le ha dicho a la humanidad que el dolor es una parte necesaria de la vida, y que el profundo dolor después del fallecimiento de nuestros seres queridos es esperado y un proceso natural. Brian Holmes dice enfáticamente que no, ¡no lo es! Puedes, y deberías estar emocionalmente...
Finding Peace in Times of Tragedy
The Keys to Peace and Joy When Facing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Finding peace in times of worldwide trauma is difficult, and finding peace in times of personal trauma such as a family death or tragedy can be overwhelming. Therapist Christy Monson professionally and compassionately describes how tragedy physically changes the brain and the body, and she provides...
by Mary L Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
Will a delayed letter and a message bring two people together?
Recently widowed, Serena Gray is dedicated to her nursing career and finds solace in her faith.
Months after a shooting takes her husband’s life, a mysterious letter arrives that raises questions about his past.
She tries to forget...
Blessing Life's Losses
Letting Go and Moving On
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Provides faith-based reflections using prayers, stories, exercises of the imagination, and commentary. Topics include losses connected to aging, relationships, jobs or roles; death of loved ones, dreams, hopes, and expectations.
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Recovering The Self
A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. VI, No. 1 ) -- Focus on Grief and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. VI, No. 1) April 2017
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psycho-education. Contributors to...