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Homeless, running from a violent partner, and battling suicidal depression, she found herself sitting by a river holding a bottle of pills in one hand and a bottle of red wine to wash them down in the other. Out of the twilight sky a majestic blue heron circled and landed just a few feet away. Something in the heron's piercing eyes caused her to stop swallowing the pills. In that moment, she realized that there was just too much beauty and magic in the world to give up. Thus began a decades-long quest to understand how wondrous encounters can spark healing from trauma and grief.

Of Course I'm Here Right Now is your guidebook to supporting a grieving friend, family member, client, or anyone who's grieving, and doing so with confidence and compassion. Here, experienced grief coach Shelby Forsythia introduces three essential phrases that, when used appropriately, can provide immediate relief and long-term reassurance.

Jewish anxiety is not all in our heads. Nor is feeling anxious simply a Jewish stereotype, even though many Jews tout anxiety as a stereotypical virtue and ascribe it as a motivator for success. Jewish anxiety is real. We inherit it from our ancestors. We learn it simply by living in an unsafe world as Jewish people. We learn it growing up in Jewish communities.

Lessons from a hospital chaplain on family, trauma, and love Working with the ill, injured, and dying at a level 1 trauma center, J. S. Park has seen it all, from shocking confessions to deathbed reconciliations. One thing he’s noticed: When it comes to family, even the most...

A compassionate guide to navigating the complex journey of grief, from New York Times bestselling author, therapist, and grief expert Dr. Laura Berman. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Grief doesn’t like to be quiet. It doesn’t care for euphemisms, small talk, or polite avoidance...

When goodbye comes without warning, everything changes. There are losses that don’t just break your heart—they reset your entire world. In When Goodbye Changes Everything, author Jeffrey Simmons offers a raw, compassionate companion for anyone learning how to breathe again after the death of someone they loved deeply.

What Patients Say When Time Is Short is not a medical manual. It’s not self-help. It’s not a collection of dramatic confessions. It’s a record of patterns—the same sentences spoken by different people, from different lives, at the same moment of reckoning.

You are part of a club no one ever asks to be in and part of a group of women who are treated like they have the plague. Yes, you are a Momma of an angel, a child that left way too soon. The day your child left this world was the day your life stopped making sense. Momma, You Don't Heal, was written for struggling women dealing with child loss. June discusses the raw emotions of child loss and the demons that come from within it. It was written to inspire others to rebuild and find purpose in their life; through the unimaginable truth Mommas go through when dealing with their loss.

In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago's western suburbs between the 1960s and '80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie's parents continue adding children to the family, some painful and tragic experiences test family values, parental relationships, and sibling bonds.

You are still here. You deserve to live like it. From the founder of The Good Quote, bestselling author Meggan Roxanne, You Deserve to Live Again is a heartfelt offering for anyone navigating grief and searching for a way back to themselves. Written in Meggan’s signature voice – soulful...

An invitation to be present with loss and discover the wisdom and beauty that can emerge from it. Grief and loss touch us all—tumbling into our lives and carving riverbeds through the soul. A partner dies, we lose our home, a marriage ends, and we find ourselves alone. It rises too from our...

Après la mort brutale de son mari, le Dr Tara Swart, célèbre neuroscientifique, commence à voir des rouges-gorges, des nombres récurrents, des cœurs et une série de synchronicités. Ces « signes » l'aident à traverser le deuil, à retrouver un sens à sa vie… et éveillent chez elle une question vertigineuse : « Et si le hasard n'existait pas ? » En s'appuyant sur d'étonnants témoignages et sur les dernières découvertes en neurosciences, elle vous apprend à reconnaître vos propres signes (rêves, symboles, coïncidences, rencontres).

This audiobook is about the insights of a mother after her daughter dies by suicide. The mother thought her daughter, Leah, was painfully shy at a young age, but was consistently told by counselors that her daughter would grow out of it. However, this shyness was a sign of depression at a young age. Leah was a child in a dysfunctional marriage with no love or recognition from her Dad. Her mother believed the only way to help her was to move and leave the marriage multiple times without success. After Leah's death, her mother finds diaries that Leah wrote at various times in her life.

Nadine leeft zoals vele andere jonge meiden, dynamisch en bruisend. Op haar zeventiende krijgt ze vlinders in haar buik, ze wordt verliefd op Gerold. Hun relatie ontwikkelt zich, ze beleven mooie momenten samen. Maar er komen geleidelijk ook donkere wolken, de ideeën over wat een goede relatie is, lopen steeds meer uiteen en na bijna drie jaar maakt Nadine het uit. Gerold accepteert dat niet en blijft contact zoeken. Ondanks dat Nadine steeds weer zegt dat niet te willen, weet hij haar toch nog één keer naar zijn huis te lokken.

The Art of Dying Daily is a simple, gentle guide to meeting death with clarity, peace, and familiarity. Written for the dying, the grieving, and the living.

Most people don’t know how to have a “good death”—but Jane Callahan does. By day, Jane is a corporate marketer and mom, but by nights and weekends, she works with the almost-dead. As an end-of-life doula, she helps the terminally ill prepare for their imminent demise. And it has revealed invaluable truths about this temporary status called life.

When faced with a loved one’s serious illness, many families find themselves overwhelmed, uncertain, and afraid. In this compassionate guide, hospice nurse and educator Maureen Groden, RN, offers a sympathetic and deeply human glimpse into one of life’s most challenging passages.

Thinking of losing someone you love can be unbearable. Understandably, it is hard at times and impossible to think that your loved one's time here with you is ending. Professionally and personally, I have sat with the dying. And held a safe space for the living to grieve. My dad became very ill when I was in preschool and died when I was a teenager. His lifetime illness and other circumstances led me to work in the field of grief and loss for the past twenty-nine years.

With remarkable insight and vulnerability, a leading cancer researcher distills the lessons for living that he's learned as a doctor and as a patient, after being diagnosed with his own terminal illness—based on his enormously popular Stanford class. Over the course of his twenty-year career...

An Army veteran and professional life coach's battle plan for overcoming challenges and leading a joyful life. Jennifer Ballou is one of the only known US military service members to lose her husband while serving simultaneously in the same war zone. Just after Father’s Day in 2010, Staff...