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When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it's normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult thoughts and feelings. It will be a compassionate companion to you as you move through shock and numbness and struggle with ongoing grief symptoms such as...
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"He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how.'" But, how to go on when all that you live for and love is taken, in blow after agonizing blow? 'Dancing To The Darkest Light' tackles the big questions in a tale of finding grace in a brutally unkind world. It is the heartwarming saga of a loving family's struggle starting in 1950's Iran.
You will never look at life in the same way once you read this book.
Soheila's peaceful life is, shattered...
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The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies-literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation...
1764) Maisy's Memories
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Dealing with loss is a difficult thing for anyone to go through, no matter what the age. For adults dealing with the loss of a loved one, it can add even more stress to an already difficult situation, while having to take care of their children as well. Most adults try to put on a 'brave face' in front of their children and pretend that everything is okay. This heart-warming story explains how the deceased can always live on in our memories and conveys...
1765) Charly et Crochet
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Le décès de son père a beaucoup affecté Charly. Le jeune Madelinot, souvent seul, aime explorer les Îles à vélo, s'arrêter en haut des collines et dessiner tout en guettant le retour des bateaux de pêche. Un jour, sur le quai, Charly croit devenir fou : il entend une voix dans sa tête ! Est-ce bien ce gros homard à la pince croche qui lui parle ? Contre toute attente, Charly et Crochet le homard se lient d'une amitié précieuse et surprenante....
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What happens after a suicide?
Ten years after the suicide of a close friend, Sabrina Muller writes about her personal mourning process in short blogs and in-depth analyses. She tells of her numbness after the bad news, of the unbearable moments, of her phases of grief. She tells of rage, her own life tiredness, disappointment, and loneliness. Where were friends, community, even the church, when she herself urgently needed support?
Muller speaks openly...
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One of the most devastating losses a family can experience is the loss of a child. Whether the loss is through illness, accident, drugs, suicide, or other tragedy, the pain is overwhelming and often paralyzing. Often we think of "loss" as death. However, in our broken world there are many ways to suffer the loss of a child. This book discusses how a family can learn to cope with loss of a child due not only to death, but also to a custody battle,...
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SOME FRIENDSHIPS FADE. OURS WAS MURDERED. What would you do if your best friend died? What if she'd betrayed you hours earlier? Emma's nights are haunted by the twisted sight of her friend's body in Stone Lake. Others in the sleepy town of Camber slap an accident label on the death and call it a day. Emma can't. It hurts too much to leave it alone. Proving the drowning was murder isn't easy. The sheriff stonewalls her, her friends want her to leave...
1769) The path to resilience
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In search of the American dream, young Severine and her French-Haitian family move from France to the United States. They quickly discover success comes at a high cost and life as an immigrant is far from what they thought it would be. What was once an American Dream turns into a nightmare when Severine's mom is arrested in the middle of the night. And when, tension around immigration rises Severine is forced to leave the life she knew behind.
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1770) Stealing Our Way Home
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From the award-winning author of The Patron Saint of Butterflies and The World from Up Here comes a story about grieving hearts, broken families, and how speaking out can save them both.
Saying goodbye is never easy.Everything changed after Pippa and Jack's mother died last spring. Pippa stopped speaking, Jack started picking fights, and their father's struggling business began to fail. Now, with school starting again, Pippa doesn't know how she'll...
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At seventeen, Jennie Goutet has a dream that she will one day marry a French man and sets off to Avignon in search of him. Though her dream eludes her, she lives boldly-teaching in Asia, studying in Paris, working and traveling for an advertising firm in New York.When God calls her, she answers reluctantly, and must first come to grips with depression, crippling loss, and addiction before being restored. Providence takes her by the hand as she marries...
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Widowhood leaves you forever changed but does not have to mean forever suffering.
Grief Unveiled is a love letter from a widow sister that will change what you believe is possible in life after loss. This book acts as a guide to those supporting the bereaved just as it illuminates a path for anyone traveling the road of widowhood. Based on her personal experiences in grief and those of her clients, Sarah Nannen offers a deeply intimate look at...
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Used for years by individuals, grief counselors, and support groups, Roses in December has helped readers understand the grieving process, support family members, give insight into sibling grief, and maintain their marriages during difficult times. This newly revised edition offers the same compassion and encouragement plus chapters on losing loved ones under special circumstances, such as suicide and AIDS.
With deep empathy, Marilyn helps those who...
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When someone you know loses someone they love, what do you say? What can you do? How to Help the Newly Bereaved is a powerful etiquette guide that offers helpful suggestions, tips, and insight by 22 different grief educators and advocates who share what was most and least helpful when they lost someone they loved.
A comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to support someone facing loss, How to Help the Newly Bereaved offers straight talk...
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For two years, I prayed for her, while I was jogging. Then she made her grand entrance. Renee came into this world larger than life. You hear, "Be careful what you pray for... you just might get it." Well, I've learned that the Lord has a great sense of humor. He answered our prayers... and then, some. Renee would take our lives from the orderly, organized and make-sense world of science and fill it with laughter and humor sprinkled with surprises...
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Deja atrás tu duelo y mira hacia el futuro con esperanza
¿Sientes un dolor tan grande tras la pérdida de un ser querido que piensas que jamás podrás superarlo? ¿Necesitas unos consejos para volver a rehacer tu vida?
En esta guía práctica encontrarás todo lo que necesitas saber para superar el duelo de una persona querida, lo que te ayudará a mirar hacia adelante con optimismo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, conseguirás:
• Entender por qué...
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Your world has changed. Someone special is missing.
How do you do this? What does this mean? Who are you now? What's next?
Whether you're an avid journal writer or have never used writing to process difficult events, you'll find the Grieving the Write Way Journal and Workbook a heartfelt, compassionate, and practical resource for your grief journey.
In Grieving the Write Way, you'll learn...
• The role writing can play in your grief and healing...
1778) Designated Defenders
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As we travel through this journey, we call life, we are often presented with pivotal moments. A moment in time, where the decisions we make put us on a path that changes our lives forever. One of these pivotal moments occurred for me on March 10th, 2019, when my father Ramsay suffered a severe debilitating stroke while on a humanitarian home build in Lampang, Thailand. This story is a true account in journal form of the events that occurred following...
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Sudden Widow, A True Story of Love, Grief, Recovery, and How Badly It Can Suck!
Is a book for widows/widowers and everyone in their lives, to help them make sense of an unbearable loss. It is refreshing, authentic, heartbreaking, and funny. Understanding for widows in a world where many people don't comprehend the lifelong grief and change after a loss of this magnitude.
Reading this honest, heartfelt book, you feel seen, heard, and supported....
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How can the crushing disappointment and pain accompanying marital unfaithfulness effectively be described by mere words?
The truth is, there is no one sentence that can aptly convey this experience; this is why a story needs to be told. Join Anne-Maree as she invites you into her story. One that details the devastating shattering of a much loved and enjoyed life, the grueling trudge through the depths of grief and loss, and then the healing, rebuild-ing,...
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