Download or read book The Grief Train A Healing Journey of Love Loss and Renewal written by Marinda Freeman and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people today do not have a traditional or formal way to address grief. Yet people who experience the death of a loved one crave emotional support and ways to work through their grief and loss. The Grief Train provides a gentle, spiritual, non-religious approach to grief. You never know when The Grief Train will stop at your station, however you can be ready and accepting when it arrives.
Download or read book Walking with Grief written by Nanette Elizabeth Geertz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grief Is Love written by Marisa Renee Lee and published by Legacy Lit. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trusted grief expert shares advice on how to navigate the loss of a loved one in this incisive and compassionate guide: “calm, lucid prose… humanizing exploration of coping with the life-changing tides of loss” (Kirkus Reviews). In Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you’ve lost the person recently or long ago—and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines. Grief is Love is about making space for the transformation that a significant loss requires. In beautiful, compassionate prose, Lee elegantly offers wisdom about what it means to authentically and defiantly claim space for grief’s complicated feelings and emotions. And Lee is no stranger to grief herself, she shares her journey after losing her mother, a pregnancy, and, most recently, a cousin to the COVID-19 pandemic. These losses transformed her life and led her to question what grief really is and what healing actually looks like. In this book, she also explores the unique impact of grief on Black people and reveals the key factors that proper healing requires: permission, care, feeling, grace and more. The transformation we each undergo after loss is the indelible imprint of the people we love on our lives, which is the true definition of legacy. At its core, Grief is Love explores what comes after death, and shows us that if we are able to own and honor what we’ve lost, we can experience a beautiful and joyful life in the midst of grief.
Download or read book Healing the Broken Heart NAVIGATING GRIEF AND LOSS AFTER THE DEATH OF A CHILD written by Dee Walters and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Healing the Broken Heart: Navigating Grief and Loss After the Death of a Child," a brave mother takes you on a poignant journey of love, loss, and healing. This book is a heartfelt exploration of the depths of grief and the resilient human spirit. When her 20-year-old son passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, she faced an indescribable loss that changed her life forever. "Healing the Broken Heart" is not just a recounting of her journey through sorrow; it is a guide for others who are dealing with the heartbreaking loss of a child. It tackles the intense emotional turmoil with courage and honesty, presenting strategies for surviving and eventually healing from such an overwhelming tragedy. This riveting book's raw authenticity draws you into the author's world, showing you the real face of grief and the power of resilience. Her narrative transcends beyond just a retelling of personal tragedy; it is a testament to human strength in the face of unbearable loss. The author's intimate account coupled with practical strategies is intended to serve as a comforting companion to those who find themselves on this heartbreaking journey. In this book, you'll find: - Insightful, practical strategies to navigate grief and reframe the future. - Honest reflections on the process of grieving and healing after the loss of a child. - Empathetic guidance to manage and acknowledge your pain, and to honor your unique grieving process. - Valuable resources and advice for seeking professional help, joining support groups, and building a network of understanding. - Encouragement to express your feelings through creative outlets as a therapeutic form of release. - Suggestions to honor your child's memory and keep their spirit alive in your heart. Through her words, the author paints a portrait of her son so vivid, it's as though you knew him. She takes you on the emotional rollercoaster that followed his passing - the agonizing hospital stay, the numbness that enveloped her afterward, and the painful process of telling her other children about their brother's departure. As you journey with her through the fog of grief and into the light of acceptance and transformation, you may find solace, understanding, and perhaps, a renewed sense of hope. "Healing the Broken Heart" is not just a book about loss; it is about love, resilience, and the incredible strength of the human spirit. In the throes of despair, the author discovered the transformative power of grief. She learned to honor her son's memory in a way that helped her heal, grow, and find purpose again. She hopes to share the insights she gained along the way, hoping they may serve as a guiding light to others experiencing a similar loss. Join her in this deeply moving journey of the heart and discover a roadmap to healing after the unthinkable happens.
Download or read book A Journey Through Grief written by Alla Renée Bozarth and published by Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in response to customer requests, this is the word-for-word transcript of the popular audiocassette, Life Is Goodbye, Life Is Hello. Like the cassette, it is an essential resource for anyone in the first, most wrenching stages of grief.
Download or read book Grief Growth and Gratitude written by Caitlin Burr and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Caitlin Burr, shares her personal story on how grief interrupted her life when her mom passed away and the true emotion behind it. Caitlin then shares how grief reveals a deeper pain inside herself. Grief, Growth, & Gratitude highlights her healing journey and the transformation that took place to put the pieces back together. Through this book, Caitlin hopes to help others understand different types of grief. Caitlin wants her readers to know that healing and new beginnings are possible.
Download or read book Life After Losses written by James LaVeck and published by James Laveck. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real loss occurs when you love someone more than you love yourself. And with losing a significant other, you lose a part of yourself. After the fact, you feel existentially vacuous, marked by emotional and mental numbness. And, after that, the weight of your suffering begins to get apparent and intolerable. Can you ever rationalize grief through this overbearing sense of losing a significant other? You can't. However, you can learn to deal with it, over time. How does someone pick up the pieces after losing their love and go on to find love again? And what happens when their second love also dies? James LaVeck shares his deeply personal experience in losing his soulmate and husband, Bob, after seven years together. After several years and with the great struggle of getting back to himself, he fell in love again with his second husband, coincidentally also named Bob, and lost him too. This time, with two young children. In this poised narrative, Jim shares the human experience, and practical advice, of coming to terms with reality and learning to rediscover oneself through the unimaginable suffering, not once, but twice. He shares his honest journey through grief toward recovery, and how he made the conscious decision to model grieving behavior to his children. He hopes that, by sharing his experiences, others in similar situations can resonate with and find inspiration in the messages of hope, courage, and faith.
Download or read book Second Firsts written by Christina Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide for dealing with grief and loss, detailing five steps of healing that can lead to a lifestyle alignment with personal values and new possibilities for a re-engaged life. --Publisher's description.
Download or read book Escape from Grief Prison written by Gail Norwood and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the prison of your soul Fear and grief may take control. Oppressive as they both may be Allow the truth to set you free. A compelling love story, the harsh reality of earthly loss, and evidence of the extraordinary power of healing fill these pages, laced with hope and promise. Written by first-time author Gail Norwood, this true story erupts with both the stunning beauty and the depths of sadness that constitute our lives-all our lives, not only those who have recently lost a loved one. It is an intimate reflection on loss, which we all have, and healing, which we all need. Our losses are as different and unique as each of us, but many of the fundamental strategies to help us cope are universal. These nurturing truths are there to guide us, comfort us, and encourage us to live again. An unexpected sentence to Grief Prison is a portal to the dark side of bereavement. In this bleak midwinter of our soul, we are detained in sullen captivity. It is solitary confinement, a lonely internment where we are held against our will. But can we escape? Can we escape to a good grief, one that is healthy, productive, and enlightening? The keys to good grief can open the lock binding us to this cruel incarceration. One key is recognizing our choices and keeping our balance. Another reminds us to practice acceptance and letting go. Gratitude fills us with joy as we rise to our higher selves and cherish our sacred present moment. The light in the darkness guides us each day as we relearn the eternal lesson of death and rebirth, loss and renewal. Embrace these keys to healing and feel the freedom!
Download or read book Grief s Courageous Journey written by Sandi Caplan and published by New Harbinger Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grieving the loss of a loved one is an intensely personal process. If youire grieving a loss, this book takes your hand and guides you, at your own pace, along the path of your own healing journey. Grief's Courageous Journey provides a compassionate program of steps to take for coping with day-to-day life and accepting the changes in yourself and others. Guided by a sequence of journaling exercises and suggestions for creating healing personal rituals, you can use the book to tell the story of your relationship with the person who died, grieve your loss, and safely remember the past. You will also learn techniques for redefining your present life and re-creating your sense of future. The book includes a comprehensive ten-session facilitator's guide for creating a grief support group in your community.
Download or read book The Journey Through Grief written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press (Company). This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites mourners to realize what they need to do to find meaning in life and living after the loss of a loved one.
Download or read book Grieving the Loss of a Love written by Eleora Han and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in life are more difficult than losing a loved one, whether through death, or a painful breakup, or divorce. Losing someone we love disrupts the very foundation and fabric of our lives. It shatters our understanding of the world and throws us into deep grief and devastation.Although grief is painful, clinical psychologist Eleora Han shares how we can experience it as a positive, life-changing journey-how we can embrace grief to cultivate connection, learn and grow, explore spirituality, find meaning from our loss, and learn to love in new ways.A classic guide for anyone seeking comfort in times of loss, Grieving the Loss of a Love is a revealing view of how to find hope and beauty through the pain of a divorce, breakup, or death-providing clear, actionable wisdom to guide you through the pain of grief to a place of greater wholeness.
Download or read book Love Brought Me Back written by Natalie Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In 2009 Natalie Cole was on dialysis, her kidneys failing. Without a kidney transplant, her future was uncertain. Throughout Natalie’s illness one of her biggest supporters was her beloved sister Cooke. But then Cooke herself became ill, with cancer. Astonishingly, as Cooke lay dying in a hospital, Natalie received a call that a kidney was available, but the surgery had to be performed immediately. Natalie couldn’t leave her sister’s side—but neither could she refuse the kidney that would save her own life. This is a story of sisters, Natalie and Cooke, but also of the sisters who made the transplant possible, Patty and Jessica. It was Jessica’s death that gave new life to Natalie, even as Natalie experienced the devastating loss of Cooke. Patty, too, suffered her own terrible loss, but when she met Natalie, she found that her sister’s spirit still lived. Through the gift of life, Natalie and Patty became sisters in spirit. Love Brought Me Back is a story of loss and recovery, sorrow and joy, success and despair—and, finally, success again. It will touch you as few memoirs ever have.
Download or read book Runaway Husbands written by Vikki Stark and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of over 400 women worldwide, Runaway Husbands: The Abandoned Wife's Guide to Recovery and Renewal, is the first book to explore and offer healing strategies to women whose lives have been turned upside down by Wife Abandonment Syndrome. This Revised and Updated edition expands on the groundbreaking first edition that led to the development of an amazing global community of women working together to recover from Wife Abandonment Syndrome - when a husband leaves out-of-the-blue from what his wife believed to be a happy, secure marriage. Following his sudden departure, he typically replaces the caring he'd previously shown her with blame and anger, leaving his bewildered wife totally devastated. The Revised and Updated edition includes new chapters that discuss the husband's possible Covert Narcissism, the effect of this kind of divorce on the father/adult child relationship and the challenges of co-parenting with an ex following abandonment. Written by family therapist Vikki Stark, MSW, who herself had a runaway husband, the book helps women understand in full what could motivate a loving husband to morph overnight into an uncaring stranger and provides them with the tools they need to move forward and rebuild their lives.
Download or read book Second Firsts written by Christina Rasmussen and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widow and therapist explores grief, loss, and our innate resilience in this updated guide, drawing on neuroscience and personal experience to lead the bereaved through the five stages of healing After studying to become a therapist and crisis intervention counselor—even doing her master’s thesis on the stages of bereavement—Christina Rasmussen thought she understood grief. But it wasn’t until losing her husband to cancer in her early 30s that she truly grasped the depths of sorrow and pain that accompany loss. Using the knowledge she gained while wading through her own grief and reading hundreds of neuroscience books, Rasmussen began to look at experiences in a new way. She realized that grief plunges you into a gap between worlds—the world before loss and the world after loss. She also realized how easy it is to become lost in this gap. In Second Firsts, Rasmussen walks you through her Life Reentry process to help you break grief’s spiral of pain, so you can stop simply surviving and begin to live again. She shows you that loss can actually be a powerful catalyst to creating a life that is in alignment with your true passions and values. The resilience, strength, and determination that have gotten you through this difficult time are the same characteristics that will help you craft your wonderful new life. Her method, which she has used successfully with thousands of clients, is based on the science of neuroplasticity and focuses on consciously releasing pain in ways that both honor suffering and rewire the brain to change your perception of the world and yourself. Using practical exercises and stories drawn from her own life and those of her clients, Rasmussen guides you through five stages of healing that help you open up to new possibilities. From acknowledging your fear, to recognizing where you stand now, to taking active steps toward a new life, Rasmussen helps you move past the pain and shows that it’s never too late to step out of the gap and experience life again—as if for the first time.
Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Download or read book Grief and God When Religion Does More Harm Than Healing written by Terri Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
