Download or read book For Every Dark Night A Mother s Journey Through Grief and Trauma written by Diane Muller Ludman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Every Dark Night...A Mother's Journey through Grief and Trauma, Diane Ludman courageously shares her difficult and rewarding journey through the grieving process. Her stories of navigating grief's peaks and valleys are clearly driven by love and support from her family and her "family of friends". Honoring her feelings, instincts and intuition, Diane embraces the "sightings of Mikie" and is able to enjoy his presence in her life... and to always be Mikie's mom. With gathered strength and courage, Diane reveals how trust can open doors to healing. Diane provides a comforting treasure for grieving parents and a book to remember for us all." -Elizabeth Pearce KinderMourn Counselor/Facilitator

Download or read book Journey Through Cancer written by Neroli Duffy and published by Darjeeling Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in four people will be faced with cancer during their lifetime. No matter what the location or type of tumor, the most effective treatment addresses the whole person.Journey through Cancer provides a road map for healing at all levels--body, mind, and spirit. It shows how to: - Get the best results from medical treatment- Minimize side effects- Evlaluate and choose from the vast array of alternative therapies- Integrate traditional and complementary therapies- Work with the mind-body connection to fight cancer and strengthen the immune system- Maximize the effectiveness of prayer and other spiritual healing techniques- Understand the spiritual lessons that illness can teach- Integrate physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual techniques for your own healing journey

Download or read book Almost 18 A Mother s Journey Through Grief written by Paula Marie Osipovitch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My daughter Trisha left this world due to a reckless driver just one month short of her eighteenth birthday. Confusion, rage, anger, and denial became my new world. I felt alone, as if I were free falling for years. But my words are a sanctuary. My desire is to bring awareness to other parents who have lost children. My message is to convey to bereaved parents that they are not alone on this journey and their feelings are not only acceptable, but also normal. I hope to provide a forum in which those who suffer as I have can compare their feelings along with mine, can share in the same emotions I have, as we try to learn the best way to continue moving along in a world that for us can never be the same.

Download or read book The Humpty Dumpty Principle written by Court Johnson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthusiastic Praise The Humpty Dumpty Principle contains personal experiences, offers tangible steps and asks penetrating questions to guide us in becoming active and engaged in the process of change. As a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and expressive arts I found this book remarkably helpful. It is an indispensable guide in helping us recognize, define and rewrite our personal story of grief and offers a plan with hope. Lorrie L. Nichelson, M. A. Counseling Psychology This book is a wonderful tool to reach into the depths of ourselves and find hidden resources which allows us to transcend our sufferings. Lauren Schmidt, Psychotherapist In this book, personal story and guided steps for writing our own stories point us to the power we each have to find meaning and growth in our pain. A truly inspiring and important book. Alyse Sweeney, Creator of Write to Glow This book is an exciting psychological and spiritual experience that helps create a healthy, brighter life. J. Fierros, Yoga Instructor A must read for those in search of their inner self and a path forwarda structure to increase self-understanding. Garry Gibbs, Real Estate Broker and Author, Selling Santa Barbara I find the content very creative and playful in a very heavy subject. Julianna Brooks, L. C. S. W.

Download or read book Before the Bow Breaks written by EsthersChild and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the urn was empty, we each put our rose into it, signifying our love for Cassie. The urn would not remain empty; her memory on earth would remain alive in us. Huddling together, arms entwined, I offered a prayer to God committing Cassie to his eternal care. Meanwhile, the youngest member of the family, only 8 years old, spontaneously began drawing hearts in the sand. Multiple hearts -- hearts within hearts, small hearts, large hearts. When we turned back toward the shore, the beach was covered with them. Before the Bow Breaks is the love story of a mother searching for meaning in the life and death of her daughter, Cassie. Tormented by depression and anxiety, Cassie sought escape in alcohol and drug addiction. She was a paradox between wit and confusion, her life filled with dark, woeful tales and bright, fun-loving laughter. Yes, grieving is ultimately about letting go, but it is also about finding peace and clarity in the letting go. By sharing her journey in Before the Bow Breaks, EsthersChild helps to guide other families of addicts as they work their way through grief, pain, and loss.

Download or read book Crash written by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 25 years of caring for children, first as a nurse, then as a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her 17-year-old son Neil is hit by a teenage drunk driver while walking his girlfriend Trista home after a study date. Trista did not survive her injuries. Neil carries his with him to this day. Gratitude for her son’s survival ultimately gives way to grief. While initially told Neil’s only injury was a broken leg, Roy-Bornstein quickly finds herself riding in the front seat of an ambulance transporting her son to the ICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; his brain is bleeding. Roy-Bornstein is now not the patient’s doctor or nurse but his mom. The world she so easily navigates in a white uniform or a white coat now must be traversed, understood, and dealt with from the perspective of a parent. There are many dividing lines in this story. The line that divides this family’s life in two: the events that occurred before the crash and those that came tumbling and faltering in its wake. The line that separates grief from gratitude: gratitude that her son is alive and as whole as he is; grief for his loss of memory and changed personality and for having his whole world shattered in an instant. The line that separates the world Roy-Bornstein knew so well as a doctor from the new one she must now navigate as the parent of a trauma victim. In these pages she explores all of these boundaries: between then and now, grief and gratitude, before and after, us and them. Her many years as a "medical insider" bring her story authenticity and detail, while her newcomer status as the parent of a trauma victim add poignancy and warmth in this first memoir.

Download or read book Clawing My Way Back From Hell written by Moriah Brocar and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating true story of a daughter's life and a mother's journey through grief after her murder. The lives of one family remained peaceful for years until the unfathomable occurred. Murder. A discovery made in a small Texas community altered the lives of everyone it touched. This book chronicles the relationship between Stormie and her mother, as well as her mother's struggle to comprehend what transpired. The truth of traumatic grief for one mother paints a picture of how quickly life changes. Clawing My Way Back From Hell: A Mother's Journey Through Grief is a heartbreaking ode to the relationship between mother and child, a coming-of-age story, a tragic murder, and an unexpected story of new beginnings. Moriah reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we bring into the world and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent acts of other people.

Download or read book The Voices We Carry written by J. S. Park and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaim Your Headspace and Find Your One True Voice As a hospital chaplain, J.S. Park encountered hundreds of patients at the edge of life and death, listening as they urgently shared their stories, confessions, and final words. J.S. began to identify patterns in his patients’ lives—patterns he also saw in his own life. He began to see that the events and traumas we experience throughout life become deafening voices that remain within us, even when the events are far in the past. He was surprised to find that in hearing the voices of his patients, he began to identify his own voices and all the ways they could both harm and heal. In The Voices We Carry, J.S. draws from his experiences as a hospital chaplain to present the Voices Model. This model explores the four internal voices of self-doubt, pride, people-pleasing, and judgment, and the four external voices of trauma, guilt, grief, and family dynamics. He also draws from his Asian-American upbringing to examine the challenges of identity and feeling “other.” J.S. outlines how to wrestle with our voices, and even befriend them, how to find our authentic voice in a world of mixed messages, and how to empower those who are voiceless. Filled with evidence-based research, spiritual and psychological insights, and stories of patient encounters, The Voices We Carry is an inspiring memoir of unexpected growth, humor, and what matters most. For those wading through a world of clamor and noise, this is a guide to find your clear, steady voice.

Download or read book The Valley of the Shadow of Death written by Judy A. Andres and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning to Walk in the Dark written by Barbara Brown Taylor and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?

Download or read book Unwasted written by Sacha Z. Scoblic and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Triumphant, moving, and wildly entertaining. This is an unabashed and completely relatable account of getting clean and getting a life.”—Steve Geng, author of Thick as Thieves The single glass of wine with dinner . . . the cold beer on a hot day . . . the champagne flute raised in a toast . . . what I’d drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me . . . these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober. When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughter and blackouts. Then she gave it up. She had to. Here are her adventures in an utterly and maddeningly sober world—and how she discovered that nothing is as odd and fantastic as life without a drink in hand. . . “A gripping, inspiring tale that picks up where most sobriety memoirs leave off . . . This is a story for anyone trying to enact meaningful change in their lives.”—Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, #1 New York Times-bestselling coauthors of The Nanny Diaries “Hilarious and heartbreaking, Unwasted is a traveler’s guide to the perilous, wondrous land of sobriety. Scoblic’s scorched, sweet prose is the work of a writer at the top of her form.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times-bestselling author of She’s Not There “Scoblic’s testament to life on the wagon is pertinent and raffish, marked by considerable candor and humor. A dryly witty, spirited memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Download or read book The Beautiful Darkness written by Joshunda Sanders and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Darkness focuses on author Joshunda Sanders' three-year journey through loss, grief and solitude, which led to reconciliation, forgiveness, and ultimately healing. The Beautiful Darkness, her candid memoir, begins in 2010 with a phone call that informs her that her father has died by suicide. It is the first of many events that transform her life dramatically for the next three years. To understand the present, she looks to her past. Sanders vividly recalls living in multiple homeless shelters with her mentally ill single mother in 1980s and 1990s New York City when homelessness was at an all-time high. Together, they survived violence, hunger, and fear. While Sanders cared for her abusive mother, she also slowly began to seek a way out of poverty through education. She went on to attend an elite boarding school and Vassar College by way of academic scholarships. Sanders went on to pursue careers in journalism, academia, and communications before her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2011. Exploring themes of faith, identity and perseverance, Sanders candidly details the heartbreak of caring for a mentally ill parent while also telling the rare story of invisible families who grow up in poverty in New York City and throughout the United States in this unforgettable memoir.

Download or read book Dearest Mariky a Mother s Journey Through Grief Trauma And written by Louisa Zondo and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book You Are the Mother of All Mothers written by Angela Miller and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every loss mama deserves to be reminded she is the mother of all mothers.

Download or read book Always and Forever Mommy written by Christine Rios Finnie and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always and Forever, Mommy is a compilation of blog posts from Veronica's Journey, a blog documenting one mother's navigation through grief and loss, knowing her daughter would not survive her battle with brain cancer. For those who have lost a child, this book serves to remind you that you are not alone and that God is good all the time.