Self-Help, Death, Grief, Bereavement
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Seeing Sacred Stones
A Family's ALS Journey of Love, Healing and Faith by Karen J Williams
Seeing Sacred Stones chronicles one family’s year-long journey with ALS. As she watched her husband, Peter, physically change before her eyes, Karen J Williams kept a therapeutic journal in which she shared hopes, frustrations, and the faith that...
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Together Still
Love Beyond Death by Linda Hill
With poetic gentleness and vulnerable integrity, Linda Hill's memoir, Together Still: Love Beyond Death portrays Continuing Bonds: A compelling approach to end-of-life accompaniment, death care and bereavement. For four adventurous decades, Linda...
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Indiana Calling Alberta
by Ethel McKellar
When her husband of forty-five years passed away, author Ethel McKellar was beyond grief. She’d lost the love of her life, her soul mate. While her husband’s health had been declining for some time, the loss was no less sudden, no less devasting....
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Running with the Angels
A bereaved mother's journey from hopelessness to HOPE by Colette (Ruel) Howery
"Running with the Angels" is the story of a mother's sudden loss of her son; a loss that shattered her to the core of her being. Writing a book did not enter her mind as she worked through her intense grief. However words seemed to write...
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The Light Within Us
A Father’s Search for Meaning After Tragedy by Clayton Weiss
The Light Within Us traces a young family’s harrowing, and ultimately losing battle with cancer. After the terrible loss of his wife and mother of his children, the bereaved husband’s complex, faltering journey from anger and grief leads to a...
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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...
