Grief Loss Psychology

Life is full of tough transitions, and they are a bitch! Ugly divorce, death of a spouse, losing a parent to dementia or worse, losing your mind and body through menopause or other physical changes, and losing children to college and then to adulthood. These losses can take you out right to the edge of sadness and even despair. I know you can’t see it now, but inside the turbulence, what you face now is a gift. I promise that you can get to the other side of these tough transitions.

Tell a New Story offers an easy-to-follow, five-step approach using the STORY acronym to help uncover your patterns and transform the way you think and talk about yourself. Rowan weaves a tapestry of powerful emotions through personal storytelling. She expounds on struggles that teach lessons on how to dissolve the habits that hold you back from living your dream life. Rowan will help you recognize the patterns that are keeping you stuck in the same old story, and instead, guide you to rewrite a new and empowering version of yourself that you love.

Life After Losses is a memoir with a message. Author James LaVeck offers help for grieving while taking listeners on an intimate journey of love, loss, healing, recovery, and discovery.

Finding Comfort is a book about easing grief and trauma after unimaginable horrors - mass shootings, catastrophic natural disasters, and terrorist acts. Through personal recollections of responding to tragedy, combined with a practical application, Earl Johnson offers listeners the tools they need to seek support and offer it to those in need. The book walks through the life cycle of disaster care from the first hours and days to the years that follow.

You’re riding an emotional roller coaster that takes your breath away. You find yourself going from happy to sad to mad in a heartbeat. Your relationships with family, friends, and coworkers feel strained or uncomfortable, and your energy is so low that it’s hard to get out of bed and keep moving throughout the day.

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief.

The Breakup Breakthrough provides clear strategies based upon research to help you heal and move on faster. Dr. C. M. Sense, with his years of experience working with individuals who struggle to overcome romantic grief, gives a guide to getting over your ex in a thought-provoking and easy-to-follow book. Breakthrough the heartache and stop doing things that aren’t helping you heal. It’s time to move on and breakthrough the breakup.

After a near fatal stroke in 1995, Robert McCrum has gained an intimate understanding of his own mortality. Twenty-two years on, his friends have joined him in experiencing Prospero's 'every third thought' of death as a dominating theme of life. McCrum asks: can we make peace with what Freud calls 'the necessity of dying'? Searching for answers leads him to brain surgeons, psychologists, cancer patients and writers for advice and wisdom.

¿Te ha pasado que...? Una nueva mirada a esas situaciones que "atormentan" tu vida, es un libro que te ayudará a enfocar desde un ángulo más positivo, aquellas situaciones dolorosas de tu presente, pasado o futuro y aprenderás a superarlas positivamente. Te ayudará a superar la tristeza, el miedo, el dolor, la ansiedad, la angustia; te ayudará a entenderte, a perdonarte, a comprender y perdonar a los demás, pese al dolor que su presencia o ausencia te pudieron generar.

Explore the relationship between loss, grief, and depression. Discover how an understanding of the grieving process can assist you in working through an experience of loss.

Author Joanne Steen tackles the subject that terrifies parents of military personnel - the death of their son or daughter on active duty. In short, accessible chapters Gold Star parents find thoughtful explanations and trustworthy advice for coping with military grief. Steen weaves together realistic examples with voices of other Gold Star parents, connecting the listeners to the wisdom of those parents who have walked in their shoes.

The images of the burning towers, the heartbroken friends building memorials, the minute-by-minute accounts of the horrors of that day - all are indelibly etched on our collective consciousness. But what of those left behind after 9/11? What have they, and we, learned from the gift of time? In Project Rebirth, a psychologist and a journalist examine the lives of eight people who were directly affected by the events of September 11, 2001.

When best-selling writer Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she searched for help in books. All of them wanted to tell her what she should be feeling and when she should be feeling it, but the truth—as she soon found out—is that there are no neat, labelled stages for grief, or crash grief-diets to relieve us of our pain. What we need when we're grieving is time and understanding. I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This is the book she needed then.

In this profound and moving book, oncology nurse Janie Brown recounts 20 conversations she has had with the dying, including people close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective on, and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. Offering extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown shows practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of our mortality.

Balena è la storia di un corpo che cambia e diventa gigantesco, ma è anche la storia di una donna che si riappropria di sé grazie a quel corpo. Dopo la perdita del padre, a soli undici anni, Giulia inizia a cercare di colmare quel vuoto enorme col cibo, finendo per passare da 40 a 96 chili in pochi mesi. Poi, insieme al corpo, cominciano a crescere il rifiuto di sé e la vergogna, mentre compagni e insegnanti iniziano a trattarla in modo diverso. Un memoir toccante e acuto che racconta la stigmatizzazione del corpo, il superamento del lutto e la ricerca di un nuovo inizio.

Eine inspirierende Anleitung für ein besseres Leben von Bestsellerautorin Edith Eger. Wir alle sind mit Leid konfrontiert: Trauer, Verlust, Angst, Versagen, Einsamkeit. Aber wir haben es selbst in der Hand, ob wir angesichts von Trauma und Problemen den Mut verlieren oder versuchen, jeden Moment als ein Geschenk des Lebens zu verstehen. Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust-Überlebende, erfolgreiche Therapeutin und gefeierte internationale Bestsellerautorin, gibt uns mit "Das Geschenk" einen Leitfaden an die Hand, wie wir das Gefängnis unserer Gedanken und unser destruktives Verhalten überwinden können.

When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their two young sons. By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss?

In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor traveled to Whitehorse to reconstruct the last days of his brother, David, whose truck and cowboy hat were found at the edge of the Yukon River just outside of town the previous December. David's family, his second wife, and his friends had different theories about his disappearance. Some thought David had run away; some thought he'd met with foul play; but most believed that David, a talented musician who at the age of 48 was about to give up the night life for a day job, had intentionally walked into the water.

This unusual and important audiobook is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his 30 years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. And he writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having.

"Siempre he pensado que la vida es amor y dolor, pero que tenemos la opción de transformar ese dolor para evitar quedar anclados en el sufrimiento, que es inútil. El autor de este libro, un héroe anónimo, nos demuestra que con una actitud positiva, sea cual sea el desenlace, y regalando sonrisas - aunque en el fondo no se tengan suficientes motivos para sonreír -, se atraviesan los momentos más duros de la vida de una forma mucho más sana y llevadera.