Download or read book How to Endure the Loss of a Child written by Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. and published by Atlantic Publishing Group (FL). This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been said time and time again: there is nothing more difficult than enduring the loss of a child. Parents are, after all, not meant to outlive their offspring. It does happen, however, and if you find yourself facing such a misfortune, knowing what to do next can seem insurmountable. There is comfort in knowing you are not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest calculations, more than 10,000 children die every year--meaning there are tens of thousands of parents who understand what it is like to go through the loss you have experienced. How to Endure the Loss of a Child: A Parent's Guide to Mourning and Moving Forward will give you the tools you need to cope, endure, and continue living your life. You will find a vast compilation of resources, coping strategies, outreach programs and suggestions for how to deal with the emotional trauma of losing a child. You will grasp how to channel your sadness, anger, and grief into positive forces in your life, through community involvement, exercise, outreach, volunteering, or a number of other outlets. You will also learn how to find support, whether it is from your family, community members, coworkers, or members of your local church. You will also discover how to help friends, loved ones, and family members cope with the loss of their children. How to Endure the Loss of a Child will provide you with the tools you need to process and to interact with those around you. You will learn ways to explain your loss to others, how to accept condolences and assistance gracefully, how to take time for yourself to complete the grieving process, and how to support other families who have lost children. The grief that follows the loss of a child might seem unbearable, but experiencing grief is just one of the facets of the healing process. This book takes a detailed look at the five stages of grief: Denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. You will learn how to identify and deal with each of these stages, as well as how to transition into the final stage of acceptance. While you may never truly get over the loss of a child, How to Endure the Loss of a Child serves as a useful tool for learning how to push forward despite one of life's most traumatizing events.
Download or read book How to Survive the Loss of a Child written by Catherine Sanders and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery." — Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of Death "How to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those of us in need of such a resource for our own mourning." — Eugene Knott, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island "Dr. Sanders' insights are profound and poignant." — Patricia Geiger, M.D., pediatrician, Boone, North Carolina "Thank you so much for all that you do for bereaved parents but especially for writing How to Survive the Loss of a Child. I know that it has changed lives. It changed mine!" — Nancy Ulmer, bereaved parent, Kindermourn, Charlotte, North Carolina It is only through experiencing grief that bereaved parents ultimately heal. Moving through the phases of grief, the bereaved person works toward restoration. Understanding these phases, knowing what to expect, and learning what they can do to help themselves give parents greater assurance and comfort. In How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Dr. Sanders, a bereaved parent herself, offers grieving parents practical help and emotional support. This book also helps family members, friends, and caregivers relate to grieving parents and aids them, too, in understanding the process of healing through grief.
Download or read book Life After Losing A Child written by Antonette Smith and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life After Losing a Child is dedicated to my son, Antonio Smith-Scott (May 23, 1992–March 5, 2013) and in honor of my mother, Flora Scott (August 25, 1949–January 3, 2020), who birthed eight children and lost six before her own death. Life After Losing a Child is based on my own experiences—from a mother’s perspective losing a child, from a sibling’s perspective losing brothers in early childhood, how the death of my brothers affected my parents and our family. I also share how losing my own son affected my family, my four other children, and their father. Millions of parents lose a child every day and are left struggling, trying to not be overtaken with grief for the rest of our lives. We suffer from guilt, shame, hurt, pain, and sorrows until we allow Jesus to heal us. Losing a child from a miscarriage, stillbirth, sickness, deformities, abortions, accidents, or homicides—all these losses of a child carries the same hurts, pains, sorrows, and grief. The loss of these children leaves a void in all our lives as a family. I pray by sharing my loss and grief process, you will seek Jesus for healing for yourself and family. That you will be empowered to live your best life after the loss of a child or sibling. I pray you will live to the fullest capacity God has intended, Jesus died to give you, with the Holy Spirit guiding you—a life of purpose not only for yourself and family, but for the child that is gone but not forgotten.
Download or read book Surviving Child Loss written by Rita J Setness and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child loss is the most painful thing a parent will ever endure. Our hearts are broken, forever, and we will never stop grieving this loss or get over the pain. We just must learn to live with it, with God as our guide and comforter. Surviving Child Loss is about learning to live without the precious child that you have lost, leaning always on God and His strength, as He leads us day by day, minute by minute on this journey after losing a precious child. God is faithful and He will never leave us to suffer this sorrow alone.
Download or read book Love Notes from God written by Amanda Burke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief and loss are taboo subjects. A mother doesn't want to talk about her child who died. Or does she? A woman who miscarries isn't losing as much as a mother who loses a newborn. Or is she? A father doesn't grieve as much as a mother. Or does he? Our culture is full of misconceptions about grief and loss. Few mention the thousands of miscarriages and stillbirths, the babies and small children who die every day, leaving parents with empty arms and grieving hearts. The journey through grief can be long and lonely for the families left behind. Love Notes from God examines how parents cope when they go through a miscarriage or lose an infant. Find out what you can say or do to help them, and also learn what is never appropriate to say to someone who is grieving.
Download or read book Why My Child written by Stephanie A. Carson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No parent can ever prepare for the death of a child...period. When a child dies, a parent's world is shattered. There are no words, no explanations, no information that can ever make sense out of a child dying before a parent. "Why My Child? A Clinical Guide for Helping Parents Survive the Sudden Death of a Child" provides clinicians, grief counselors, clergy, and other professionals or paraprofessionals a clearer understanding of the unique issues surrounding the parental loss of a child. In addition to helping foster more appropriate clinical interventions and therapeutic support for bereaved parents, "Why My Child?" outlines more realistic expectations for coping with such a life-changing loss. While nothing can take away the pain of losing a child, there are ways of supporting bereaved parents to help make their pain more bearable. As a marriage and family therapist, former clinical director of a mental health department, adjunct professor, and as a parent whose adult child died unexpectedly, I wholeheartedly recommend this powerful book as a much needed tool on the healing journey of grief. Thank you, Stephanie, for contributing your insight, skills, and wisdom to those who are so much in need. Shari Lowder, M.S., LMFT Clinical Consultant and Supervisor Catholic Charities Professional Counseling Services, Catholic Charities San Bernardino/Riverside
Download or read book How to Survive the Loss of a Child written by Catherine M. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanders writes from her own personal experience, the death of her son, to create a book that seeks out the grieving process and eventually helps other grieving parents. This book deals with the five phases of bereavement, describing the symptoms and helping the bereaved to understand the normality of what they are feeling.
Download or read book Bereavement written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is well organized, well detailed, and well referenced; it is an invaluable sourcebook for researchers and clinicians working in the area of bereavement. For those with limited knowledge about bereavement, this volume provides an excellent introduction to the field and should be of use to students as well as to professionals," states Contemporary Psychology. The Lancet comments that this book "makes good and compelling reading....It was mandated to address three questions: what is known about the health consequences of bereavement; what further research would be important and promising; and whether there are preventive interventions that should either be widely adopted or further tested to evaluate their efficacy. The writers have fulfilled this mandate well."
Download or read book Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child written by Paul C. Rosenblatt and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Butterfly s Journey written by Barbara J Hopkinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Butterfly's Journey offers a unique approach to enduring the loss of a child, with the author’s diverse perspective as a multiple bereaved parent and support group facilitator. In this gripping memoir that commences with the day she got "the call" alerting her that her 21-year-old son had been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, Hopkinson bares her soul in moving through a journey of grief that changed her life forever. She also gives families a reason to believe in their child's continued spiritual existence. With great skill, Hopkinson's approach helps bereaved parents and families understand the variety of ways grief can be felt, expressed and supported. For example, genders grieve differently and infant loss can be as traumatic as the death of an older or adult child. She gently reminds us to be tolerant: we all grieve in our own way and on our own schedule. Courageously sharing the impact of grief in her own life, Hopkinson reveals that her 30-year-marriage did not survive the untimely death of her adult son. Additionally, while going through a divorce that dramatically altered her lifestyle, her remaining son flunked out of college as a result of the loss of his brother. Like many bereaved parents, Hopkinson briefly contemplated suicide after these and other unexpected events. In A Butterfly's Journey, she details finding an inner strength she now believes has prepared her to handle any life challenge with greater ease. She also models how she found love, hope and happiness again by turning outward and helping others.
Download or read book When a Child Dies written by Richard S. Hipps and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether toddlers or teens, losing a child is the most shocking and unnatural event a parent can experience. Learn to survive the trauma as you share the intimate stories of individuals who have recently lost children and others who have been grieving for over forty years.
Download or read book Surviving My First Year of Child Loss written by Nathalie Himmelrich and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a baby, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss, or the death of an older child, is the worst experience a parent can endure. This book includes twenty-six heart-wrenchingly honest essays by parents who convey their personal challenges and the ways they coped during the first twelve months of child loss.
Download or read book Recovering from the Loss of a Child written by Katherine Fair Donnelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a child dies, the pain and shock can seem unbearable. But in sharing, understanding, and accepting this tragic loss, emotional recovery is possible. Katherine Fair Donnelly's groundbreaking book shows bereaved parents, siblings, and others how to cope with one of life's cruelest blows. With inspiring firsthand accounts from others who have survived this heartbreaking experience, this compassionate and reassuring volumne can help in healing the heart—and learning to live again.
Download or read book Last Child in the Woods written by Richard Louv and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book That Launched an International Movement Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It’s also their parents’ fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools’ emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime. As children’s connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply—and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. Included in this edition: A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
Download or read book Grieving After the Death of a Child written by DENICE PARKS-HAYES and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not only heart-wrenching; it will make others take a look at what it feels like when you lose a loved one. It will give a first-hand look at what you go through to find closure when a loved one is taken from you; a mothers hurt and pain and what she truly feels inside. It will be inspirational to those who have a problem grieving. Willestine Parks This true story was inspired after the murder of my only child Tarrence Darnell Parks, and is written in his honor. This book speaks of the hurt, pain and suffering Ive endured since his murder, which is still unsolved. No one has the right to take the life of another, regardless of their place in life. However the sad truth is, that every day families experience the agony and pain of learning that a loved one has been murdered. Both immediate and distant family members as well as friends are caught up in the shock and outrage of such a violent loss of life. And parents are burying their children. The tragedy in all of this is that a mother shouldnt have to bury her child, due to hatred or violence, yet it happens daily. If God so loved us, that he gave his life, we also ought to love one another. I John 4:11 I love you Tarrence and you are forever in my heart. Remembering Author: Unknown And when we have remembered everything, We grow afraid of what we may forget, A face, a voice, a smile? No need to fear forgetting, because The heart remembers always. Time takes away the edge of grief. But the memory turns back every leaf.
Download or read book The Unspeakable Loss written by Nisha Zenoff and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to hope and healing after the death of a child, from a grief counselor and psychotherapist who has been there. Nisha Zenoff lost her son in a tragic accident when he was just seventeen years old. Now, with decades of experience as a grief counselor and psychotherapist, she offers support and guidance from her own journey and from others who have experienced the death of a child. The Unspeakable Loss helps those who mourn to face the urgent questions that accompany loss: "Will my tears ever stop?" "Who am I now without my child?" "How can I help my other children cope?" "I lost my only child, how do I live?" "Will my marriage survive?" "Will life ever feel worth living again?" No matter where you are in your grieving process, The Unspeakable Loss provides a space to mourn in your own way, and helps you understand how the death of a child affects siblings, other family members and friends, recognizing that we each grieve differently. And while there is no one prescription for healing, Zenoff provides tools to practice the important aspects of grieving that are easily forgotten -- self-compassion and self-care. The Unspeakable Loss doesn't flinch from the reality or pain caused by the death of a child, yet ultimately it is a book about the choice to embrace life, love, and joy again. As Zenoff writes in the Preface: "Our relationships with our children do not end with their deaths. Our relationships change, they're transformed, but our children will always be with us."
Download or read book Silent Grief written by Clara Hinton and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 200,000 couples in America each year suffer through the tragedy of miscarriage. And that statistic only tells us about first trimester miscarriages. The emotional pain of longer-term miscarriages, and the untold numbers of mothers and fathers who keep silent about their hurt, make this form of child loss especially cruel.But in Silent Grief, author Clara Hinton brings a clear message of hope through the cold mourning. Writing of her own grief, and interviewing scores of women and men, she offers not pat answers, but instead show us this: You are not alone.
