Download or read book Notes To Grieving Friends written by Francis A. Martin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief. The acute pain of loss. A welcome and necessary but often truly difficult challenge for persons of faith is responding to grieving others. Stripped to the moment of encounter with someone who is grieving, the questions are pressing ones. What can I say? What should I not say? Is there anything I can do? What are some of the things I can do? Instead of placing the burden of the answers on a grieving friend or family member, this book provides specific things to say and things to do for those who grieve. It is a book that emerged from real life. Almost every page reveals the persistent and deep thought that Martin has given to grieving others. As such, it is a life-affirming book of hope and action. It fulfills its goal of providing ways for readers to know “what to say and do when their loss challenges your faith.” As a life-affirming book, it is also a faith-affirming book.
Download or read book Too Relieved To Grieve written by Karan Scott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karan is divorced. Never in a million years did she expect to be divorced, because she had married Perfect Steve, and had meant every last syllable of her wedding vows. Turns out, after 24 years of building a home, family and business together, Perfect Steve was just ordinary. Whilst slowly unravelling in some kind of suspected midlife crisis spasm, Steve embarked upon an affair with Karan's best friend and started jumping up and down on his self-destruct button. The marriage ended, and the once devoted family was blown apart. Karan grieved for her losses... to begin with. You see, Karan is a Life Coach and Mentor by day, so she couldn't help but take her own medicine and heed her own advice. It was brutal and she was tested every day. With two emotionally assaulted young children to navigate through a hellscape of poverty and homelessness, Karan had to dig deep into her reserves of inner strength, to not only survive, but ultimately to prevail. For too long, Karan's own potential had been buried like a seed under a pile of slabs, starved of all that she needed to grow. Once life had unfolded sufficiently, to reveal how Steve had bestowed his problems upon her nemesis, Karan was finally free to blossom in her own right, and to eventually become too relieved to grieve. As an intensely private person, Karan has dragged her vulnerabilities kicking and screaming into the light for the first time in her life, specifically to write Too Relieved To Grieve, and specifically to help you. Walking the walk, Karan has had to grow through what she went through and wants to help you do the same. This alternative heartbreak handbook is a call to arms for anyone who's ever had their life smashed and splattered by the callous misdeeds of others. Karan rose from the ashes to eventual triumph, and this is how she did it.
Download or read book Companioning the Grieving Child written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers to grieving children. Providing a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment’s model for companioning the bereaved, Wolfelt encourages counselors and other caregivers to aspire to a more compassionate philosophy in which the child is the expert of his or her grief—not the counselor or caregiver. The approach outlined in the book argues against treating grief as an illness to be diagnosed and treated but rather for acknowledging it as an event that forever changes a child's worldview. By promoting careful listening and observation, this guide shows caregivers, family members, teachers, and others how to support grieving children and help them grow into healthy adults.
Download or read book Helping Grieving People written by J. Shep Jeffreys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Grieving People is a training manual for care providers who will provide support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different intervention and support strategies, always cognizant of individual and cultural differences in the expression and treatment of grief. Jeffreys has established a practical approach to preparing trainee caregivers through three basic tracks: Heart, Head and Hand. The first step, Heart, calls for self discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Head emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic phenomena of human grief. Hand stresses the caregiver's actual intervention, and speaks to the appropriate level of skill as well as the various methods of healing available. Following these three motifs, the Handbook discusses the social and cultural contexts of grief as well as its psychological constructs.
Download or read book Leaning Out written by Monica E. Pierce and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s professional women are tired of feeling pressured to Lean In and Have it All. Women’s Equality isn’t about getting more of us into the corner office or the boardroom. It’s about having the freedom to choose our own path. But mainstream messages have lost sight of this and turned our pursuit of professional achievement into a directive rather than a choice. As a result, many women of our generation are now chasing after careers and accomplishments that we may not truly want, all at the cost of our families, our health, and our happiness. Well, instead of striving to have it all, it’s time to have just what we want. In this refreshingly honest book, self-proclaimed “average” working woman, Monica Pierce: - shares her own story of how her professional ambition changed once she admitted she didn’t actually want to “have it all. - highlights thought-provoking connections to scientific, philosophical, and social concepts that explain why so many of us are reluctant to Lean In. - offers plenty of insight and practical tips to help you right-size your life. Leaning Out is a must-read for women who are tired of today’s one-sided messages and looking for an alternative perspective.
Download or read book Madeleine written by Julia Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Edge of Sorrow written by Francis Weller and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.
Download or read book Good Mourning written by Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief book Allan Hugh Cole explains the process of grief and what loss can do to us, identifies ways of coping, and reminds us of the hope that we can find in mourning. Ultimately, Cole offers a plan of "good mourning"--a way to work through the loss and rebuild life with new strength. Cole describes what it takes to be engaged in good mourning instead of endless suffering and demonstrates how faith and prayer can be practical tools in rebuilding life after loss.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Quarrel with Grieving written by Mark Spilka and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them written by Sallie Tisdale and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CRITICS’ TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR “In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live” (The New York Times). Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads us through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise, and humorous hand. Advice for Future Corpses is more than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible: it is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions, and literature around the world. Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, beautiful, terrifying, confusing, absurd, and even joyful experiences that accompany the work of dying, including: A Good Death: What does it mean to die “a good death”? Can there be more than one kind of good death? What can I do to make my death, or the deaths of my loved ones, good? Communication: What to say and not to say, what to ask, and when, from the dying, loved ones, doctors, and more. Last Months, Weeks, Days, and Hours: What you might expect, physically and emotionally, including the limitations, freedoms, pain, and joy of this unique time. Bodies: What happens to a body after death? What options are available to me after my death, and how do I choose—and make sure my wishes are followed? Grief: “Grief is the story that must be told over and over...Grief is the breath after the last one.” Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for Future Corpses offers the resources and reassurance that we all need for planning the ends of our lives, and is essential reading for future corpses everywhere. “Sallie Tisdale’s elegantly understated new book pretends to be a user’s guide when in fact it’s a profound meditation” (David Shields, bestselling author of Reality Hunger).
Download or read book Race Across the Atlantic written by Bruce Vigar and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reveals their race across the Atlantic in stunning pictures . . . includes a first-hand account from Captain Brown of his world-first flight.” —Daily Mail Online It was Tuesday, 15 July 1919 and for the residents of Clifden on Ireland’s west coast this was not to be a normal day. Just before 08.40 hours, descending out of the gloom, came a large, twin-engine airplane lining up for final approach. After a flight lasting 16 hours and 28 minutes, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown had won the race to be the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic—and the prize of £10,000, roughly equivalent to $1,000,000 in today’s money, offered by Lord Rothermere, aviation philanthropist and owner of the Daily Mail. Illustrated by many unique photographs this book tells the story of the race, delayed for almost six years by the First World War. Many aircraft would be entered but few would even get off the ground. The teams faced great difficulties in preparing for the challenge of crossing one of the most hostile stretches of ocean on Earth. The authors not only reveal tales of failures and technical difficulties, but of the intense frustration of waiting for the perfect weather-window. And even when finally airborne, Alcock and Brown’s flight almost ended in disaster on several occasions as weather conditions almost conspired to cast them down into the grey, cold waters of the Atlantic and almost certain death. “Right from the first page, you’ll be hooked . . . you’re in the cockpit with Alcock and Brown and every dump and dive of the flight across the Atlantic.” —Vintage Airfix
Download or read book Do You Feel it Too written by Nicoline Timmer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Feel It Too? explores a new sense of self that is becoming manifest in experimental fiction written by a generation of authors who can be considered the 'heirs' of the postmodern tradition. It offers a precise, in-depth analysis of a new, post-postmodern direction in fiction writing, and highlights which aspects are most acute in the post-postmodern novel. Most notable is the emphatic expression of feelings and sentiments and a drive toward inter-subjective connection and communication. The self that is presented in these post-postmodern works of fiction can best be characterized asrelational. To analyze this new sense of self, a new interpretational method is introduced that offers a sophisticated approach to fictional selves combining the insights of post-classical narratology and what is called 'narrative psychology'.Close analyses of three contemporary experimental texts – Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace,A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers, and House of Leaves(2000) by Mark Danielewski – provide insight into the typical problems that the self experiences in postmodern cultural contexts. Three such problems or 'symptoms' are singled out and analyzed in depth: an inability to choose because of a lack of decision-making tools; a difficulty to situate or appropriate feelings; and a structural need for a 'we' (a desire for connectivity and sociality).The critique that can be distilled from these texts, especially on the perceivedsolipsistic quality of postmodern experience worlds, runs parallel to developments in recent critical theory. These developments, in fiction and theory both, signal, in the wake of poststructural conceptions of subjectivity, a perhaps much awaited 'turn to the human' in our culture at large today.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving written by Debra Holland M.S., Ph.D and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help and hope in times of loss. Debra Holland, a psychotherapist and specialist in grief counseling, shares her indispensable knowledge in The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving, tackling the difficult questions about how men and women, young and old, cope with loss. This accessible, inspiring, and insightful guide helps readers understand the various kinds and levels of grief, how people are trained to experience grief, the theories concerning the stages in the journey of grief, and ways to get through the pain and achieve some level of comfort. • Includes solid concrete advice to help the healing process. • Features dozens of real-life stories. • Helpful for those who counsel the grieving as well as those who've experienced loss.
Download or read book Mom s List written by St. John Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As inspiring as The Last Lecture, an unforgettable memoir that reminds us all to live each day with adventure and joy For Kate Greene, nothing was as important as her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, St. John, known as “Singe.” Together, they shared a wonderfully happy family life—until Kate was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer. During her final days, Kate created what she called Mum’s List. She included simple things like “look for four-leaf clovers” and “take them for walks along mummy’s favorite beach.” The list became Singe’s rock. Mom’s List is the book that Singe never wanted to write, but—in sharing the wisdom and inspiration that buoyed him during his darkest hours—he pays tribute to his beloved wife and the life she dreamed of for their sons after she was gone.
Download or read book The Last Goodbye MM Romance written by T.J. Lorenzo and published by T.J. Lorenzo. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unknown male voice on the phone just informed Carter Reeves that his father is gravely ill. Carter doesn't know it, but the man behind that voice is about to change his life. Carter has been estranged from his father for years, but now he can't stay away. He finds himself back in his home town and face to face with a young guy who will shake up his whole world and have him questioning if he is really straight. The guy's name is Jude and he works for Carter's father. Jude is a good-hearted guy determined to reconcile father and son before it's too late. The odds are against him, but he won't give up. To Carter, there is something irresistible about a beautiful young guy as caring and vulnerable as Jude. Even before he can name what he feels for him, Jude has more power over him than any pretty boy should. He isn't the only one who can't put Jude behind him. A man from Jude's past is after him, looking for payback. Despite himself, Carter can't face losing him. He is driven to save and protect Jude at any cost.
Download or read book Zenspirations written by Joanne Fink and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterning is fun, easy and relaxing. It is a great way to add interest and texture to any design. Whether you like to journal, draw, doodle, design, or craft, you'll find a world of inspiration here. These decorative borders, frames, shapes, and alphabets will appeal to a spectrum of tastes and styles.
Download or read book Road to Emancipation written by Jonathan J. Sajiwandani and published by Janus Publishing Company Lim. This book was released on 2005 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Eastern Africa, this moving and sometimes harrowing fictional account portrays the efforts of the Christian missionaries and enlightened African chiefs to stamp out the remnants of the trade of helpless young African children, giving a fascinating insight into the early 20th-century slave trade.
