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For 16-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to conceal her diagnosis by keeping everyone at arm's length. But when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and upend her shaky equilibrium.

At the age of 60, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: She now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience - the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance - of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches.

Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But with great compassion, Life After Loss offers a way through it. Drawing on numerous first-hand stories and almost 40 years of pastoral counseling to inform his advice, Bob Deits provides helpful exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief.

heart beating among the thorns, is a collection of gentle reminders with a poetic touch for those who feel lost, stuck in pain, or weighed down by relationships, yet still want to rebuild. This book is for you if you’re searching for hope and trying to find your way again. There is something remarkable about the heart that suffers, yet continues to love; that shatters, yet continues to dream. When life falls apart, the hardest part isn’t just surviving—it’s finding the strength to start over. This self-help book will help you heal, reminding you that even in pain, your heart still ...

From the best-selling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better - more honestly, more confidently and without regret. A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone’s dementia. A career’s advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another.

Grief hits hard, and as a man, you're often expected to carry on without breaking. But what if there was a way to handle your emotions and keep yourself on track? Understanding Grief Coping with Loss: Practical Information for Men Seeking Healing, Support, and Recovery Dealing with the Loss of a Loved One, is a practical, no-nonsense guide for men navigating the pain of losing a loved one. This book offers straightforward advice, actionable tips, and tools to help you take charge of your emotions, honour your loss, and move forward with purpose.

These three ‘Consolations', written by Seneca to his mother and two friends, have been described as ‘the crowning achievement in the canon of ‘consolation letters'. But sentimental they are not, for they emerge from the writer's deep-seated commitment to Stoicism, where individuals are exhorted to inhabit qualities of virtue, positivity, resilience, and indifference. This recording opens with Seneca's consolatory letter to Marcia, who, after three years, was still mourning the death of her son.

In Journey Through Many Mansions, Daniel John helps guide you through the grief that often results from the passing of a loved one, by illustrating that we do not die. Daniel shares how he discovered his gift of mediumship and explains how he uses it to help others. Daniel clarifies that once you acknowledge that eternal life exists, it can exponentially help the grieving process.

Struggling with grief? You are not alone. This transformative guide, "Grief Recovery for Adults," offers hope, healing, and a pathway back to purpose.

When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's evocative and moving meditations spread virally. Over the course of a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength, and celebrating familial love.

Anticipatory Grief: A collection of stories from others who have experienced grief in anticipation of losing a loved one. You will gain a better understanding of the dying process and learn how to find your new normal.

When death touches your family, you are never quite prepared. Complicating your personal pain and the need to grieve is the equally important task of helping your children understand and process the loss of a loved one. How should you answer your child's questions about death? Should you let them see you cry? How can you support their resilience? How can you help preserve memories? Drawing from their own personal and professional experience, Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague help you navigate loss alongside your child.

As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager to mourn, to move forward, and to make meaning of terrible loss.

En ocasiones nos sentimos incapaces de seguir avanzando, cuando una separación, la pérdida de un ser querido, una enfermedad o un revés económico nos hunden en la desesperación. En tales momentos creemos que no podremos superar el dolor, que no seremos capaces de sobreponernos a la aflicción. Con la claridad y capacidad de empatía que lo caracterizan, Jorge Bucay nos invita a recorrer el camino de las lágrimas, que es el camino de las pérdidas.

Breve guía para entender y afrontar la muerte. Gracias a los avances de la medicina, nos hemos acostumbrado a negar la presencia de la muerte como parte natural de la vida. De fallecer en el espacio privado de la casa se ha pasado a la parquedad de una camilla de hospital, donde nos encontramos con un sistema de salud poco preparado para guiar emocionalmente al paciente y a sus familiares en este duro proceso. En la lucha por evitar a toda costa la muerte, hemos perdido la capacidad para entenderla y enfrentarla cuando, tarde o temprano, llega la hora.

Do you find it difficult to open up the conversation or topics around grief? Do you find you are trying to escape your pain instead of learning to embracing it? Do you want to discover thought provoking questions that can lead to having deeper, and more meaningful conversations around grief and loss? Don't know how or where to begin moving forward on your healing journey? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you’re not alone. Knowing where to start or the right questions to ask can be a challenge when life becomes overwhelming.

This is a book of stories and inspiration. And it’s a little more than that. It’s a collaboration of 25 end-of-life experts, coaches, healers, therapists, and practitioners who’ve trained in modalities to assist the dying, and their caregivers. This is a powerful book with glimpses into what’s next for us. It’s a collection of brave authors who share, not only what death means to them, but how life has changed with their deeper understanding.

Modern Loss is all about eradicating the stigma and awkwardness around grief while also focusing on our capacity for resilience and finding meaning. In this interactive guide, Modern Loss cofounder Rebecca Soffer offers candid, practical, and witty advice for confronting a future without your person, honoring their memory, dealing with trigger days, managing your professional life, and navigating new and existing relationships.

How to Heal from Grief is a practical, no-nonsense guide that helps you navigate loss, process your emotions, and take real steps toward rebuilding your life. Whether you’re struggling with sadness, anger, guilt, or fear, this book gives you the tools to heal—without the fluff, clichés, or empty reassurances.

On May 13, 1995, God called Zig Ziglar's oldest daughter, Suzan, home after a prolonged illness. Journeying through his own grief, Ziglar realized many things about himself, his family, his priorities, and God. In this comforting book, he uses his experience to encourage listeners to deal with the reality of loss and learn to take up the threads of life again as they find consolation and inspiration in the giver of all peace.