Self-Help, Death, Grief, Bereavement
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Imagine Emma
A father's grief journey by Rick Johnston
Every year, 2,200 families in Canada experience the loss of a child under the age of fifteen. Twenty-five years after the sudden death of his two-year-old daughter, Emma, Rick Johnston has written Imagine Emma: A Father’s Grief Journey as a...
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Mending Abortion Trauma with Presence
a journal and guidebook into the canyon of silence by Marsha Donner
Terminating an unplanned pregnancy is often an unacknowledged trauma due to silence and lack of support. The process is too much, too soon and too fast. Numbing of emotions is a normal reaction that provides emotional safety for the moment. Yet,...
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How to Laugh at Death and Taxes
What Executors, Willmakers, Heirs, and Beneficiaries Need to Know by Barbara Amsden
This book is for everyone at some time in their life. If you’re breathing, this book’s for you… or your parents, friends, teenagers moving into their first apartment, newlyweds, new parents, siblings, ... oh, and the person or people you name as...
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In An Instant
Stories of Resilience and Courage by Kim Mooney
This book recounts the stories of nine ordinary people. In an instant their lives changed forever. These are their stories of how resilience and courage helped them find a way forward. Through their stories, the concept of resilience and courage...
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Mindful of You
A Mother's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope by Nancy Morgan Mumford
After growing up a happy and carefree child, Paul Mumford found himself totally unprepared for what began happening to him at age twenty-three. This is the compelling, true story of his unpredictable downward spiral into bipolar disorder and...
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Thriving in Chaos
How to Have Hope and Purpose in a World of Constant Change by Michelle Malloy
We have all found ourselves in uncertain times, unsure how to move forward. When we strive to become a better version of ourselves, which parts do we keep, and which parts must we leave behind? How do we ground ourselves so that we can prepare...
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This Grief Thing F**king Sucks
by Taya Mikado
Frank and philosophical, gentle and brave, this grief thing F**KING sucks wanders the ghost town of grief, reaching out a hand to those it encounters along the way. Through clear-eyed prose and tender-hearted poetry, Taya Mikado relays her own...
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Determined to Get a Life
The Story Doesn't End with Dementia by Ken Crassweller
In this candid story, this author asks one of life’s essential questions: How do we go on when our hearts are broken? Book One of Determined to Get a Life tells the story of Ken and his wife Lesley, her journey through dementia and eventual...
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Unlocking the Blue Door
Opening Up to Grief by Margaret Schweitzer
Grief is the best known conversation killer in polite society. The subject of death, whenever it arises, is either joked about or quickly discontinued in embarrassed silence. As we so often hear (and say), life is for the living. But what do you...
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For the Caregiver
Providing Yourself Emotional Support on Your Caregiving Journey by Tricia Perrier
A loved one’s terminal illness diagnosis can be terrifying. If we hold onto that fear and carry it into a caregiving role, we will be left exhausted, ill-equipped to cope, and feeling powerless. What’s more, we will find it extremely difficult to...
