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Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that...
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This article was written using post-modern principles to address the psychological needs of individuals when they encounter a novel and overwhelming circumstance such as Covid-19, a time when survival and quality of life depends upon conceptualizing the problem and identifying resources in an expeditious and inventive manner. It introduces a seven-arena graphic entitled "My World" in order to capture all potential repositories of resources. One metaphor...
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The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways.
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This book of poems was, written to help me deal with the death of my wife of 38 years from cancer. I believe and hope that this book can help others, who are grieving, find some light through the darkness of grief. The poems explore grief and love, and the relationship between the two. Some poems are autobiographical as they describe actual events in my life including the day of my proposal to her and the day she died.
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Regardless of how spiritual or mature you are, if you love someone, you will definitely grieve their loss. We only need to live long enough to face the reality of losing one's health, business, relationship, or even the death of a loved one. Many people get to this point and shut down their lives. But that is not God's desire for you. Christ came so you can have life to the full. However, partial recovery from grief could negatively impact your happiness....
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We all suffer the loss of a loved one. This uplifting book will guide you on your journey through grief and inspire you with evidence of the afterlife.
A practicing lawyer for over two decades, Mark Anthony is also a gifted medium who has worked with thousands of clients. He shares incredible true stories of contact with spirits and their enduring messages of forgiveness, gratitude, and acceptance. Even more remarkable, you will be able to recognize...
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From early childhood-a spilled piece of chocolate cake-to the approach of the very end of our lives, there is a common theme: loss. In order to move ahead effectively, one must grieve that which has been lost; yet, rarely does our society allow appropriate time, space, and encouragement to grieve. Wright's poetry deals with various grief experiences-loss of health status, as in her own current situation; relationships; homes; and even distance grief...
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One part memoir and two parts "how to" Grief to Generosity shows how you can channel despair into action by publicly memorializing your child. The lessons in this book will help you navigate the challenges you'll face. Step-by-step, the author leads you through your grief and into something positive. And while, helping others, you'll realize that your child can become the inspiration, not the necessity, in your grief.
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When we lose someone or something close to us-a loved person or animal, a relationship, our health, our dream, our idea of who we are-it hurts. A lot. Grief is both what we experience and how we heal. Dr. Faith Harper, bestselling author of books like Unfuck Your Brain and Unfuck Your Boundaries brings us a counseling and neuroscience perspective on grieving. She explains what is actually happening in our brains and bodies and what we need...
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Grief recovery that'll never say "it all happens for a reason"
When you lose a loved one, you're going to feel like sh*t. Plain and simple. And healing through your grief can be the start of a very difficult journey, especially when every other book on loss is quietly patting you on the head, telling you everything will be okay. But, guess what: We know everything is not okay. And we're here to actually help.
This is straight to the point, honest-as-h*ll...
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In Healing: The Essential Guide to Helping Others Overcome Grief and Loss, Alicia King combines her own wisdom and that of others who have "been there" to offer good advice for those who feel helpless when it comes to helping the bereaved. Included here are
• the best ways to get involved on behalf of the grief-stricken
• how to care for young children in grief
• interviews with and advice from those who have suffered a loss
• 20 ways...
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Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process and work towards recovery and happiness.
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it
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"A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism less than three years later, author and journalist Dina Gachman has dedicated herself to understanding what it means to grieve, healing after loss, and the ways we...
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A dramatic image of people forced to leave their country has become all too common in our TV. It could be the result of war, persecution, famine, and ethic violence. The refugees leave with almost no assets to sustain them in the host country. International community may be of help to some, but the vast majority are left to their own devices.
In this book, three stories of people who became refuges under different conditions are included. In "Honor...
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There is little in life that rocks us like the death of a husband or wife. Whether you're feeling alone, drowning under an ocean of emotions, or you've worked your way through to the darkest nights of the soul and are now wondering how to get on with your life, you'll find comfort and guidance from the authors of this book. One a clinical psychologist, the other a pastor and professor, both suffered the loss of a spouse at a relatively young age....
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A Grief Like No Other is the book no one wants to ever have to buy, sadly, many people continue to need it. From 9/11 to Cindy Sheehan's son — from mass tragedies like the recent London bombings to Law and Order type crimes that make the news only to be replaced by another name. As such, more people are left with the aftermath of dealing with the violent death of a loved one. It brings its own special brand of grieving since victim's families can...
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The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again.
Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, social position, a loving family. And like Job, Ramsey was destined for great affliction, as many of the most precious things in his life were cruelly taken from him.
First came the death of his eldest daughter in a car accident in 1992. Then, four years later, his beloved six-year-old, JonBenét, was...
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A tragic suicide may have ended the earthly life of Harriet Deison, but it didn't end the love story she shared with her husband, Pete. Their connection continued through Pete's vivid dreams of Harriet sent from her new home in heaven.
Pete and Harriet Deison were enjoying a full life of being parents, grandparents, and partners in ministry when deep depression spiraled Harriet into a darkness that caused her to take her own life. Suddenly thrust...
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In this collection of eloquent and moving essays, Ana Veciana-Suarez explores many of the topics closest to our hearts. In "Stitchwork," she expresses her mixed feelings about a mother who devotes all of her attention to her family. In the title essay, she examines, with unflinching honesty, the loss of her first husband, then gives us a humorous and compelling account of her remarriage in "Second Time Around." Veciana-Suarez offers wise reflections...
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