Healing Grief

Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet.

📖 The Ashkeeper: A short story where the ashes speak and the wind doesn’t forget. 🌬️ A spiritual fable about loss, memories, and the art of letting go. He is only known as the Ashkeeper. No one knows where he came from, nor how long he has been carrying out his sacred task: to scatter the ashes of those who have passed, in the places they once loved. 🕯️ With each journey, he carries an urn, a letter, and the weight of someone else’s final wish. He reads their words aloud to the wind. Sometimes he weeps. Sometimes he smiles. He always listens. He asks for no recognition. ...

When loss turns your world upside down, there’s no “right” way to grieve—only your way. Grief doesn’t follow rules, timetables, or stages. It doesn’t care how strong you are or how much advice you’ve heard about “moving on.” Whether you’re mourning the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a health crisis, or any invisible loss that reshapes your life, A Grief and Loss Companion is here to meet you where you are. Rooted in compassion, honesty, and practical wisdom, this book offers a gentle and realistic approach to surviving what feels impossible—without ...

Lisa Rosenberg was widowed at the age of 68 when her husband, Jeff, died suddenly in his sleep beside her. Though she tried to save his life, Lisa was unsuccessful; Jeff had passed away silently during the night. Adventure on Joyland Road is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. In this deeply personal memoir, Dr. Rosenberg offers readers a raw and intimate glimpse into the first 18 months of the grieving process after a devastating loss. With her unique blend of compassion, humor, and wisdom, honed from decades of experience as a psychiatric ...

A poignant story of loss and how a young mother picked herself up and found the courage to move forward in the search for answers about death, loss, and grief while foraging a new path in her desire to find joy again. Wendy’s life was forever changed when her husband passed away from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in 2009. She had already experienced a traumatic loss when her mother had passed away a year earlier, and now she was left with a one-year-old son and a new path that she had to forge alone. This is a story about the loss of her spouse and her journey to finding her way ...

No one who lives and loves will be immune from grief and trauma. While this suffering is universal, living through a devastating event often leaves people feeling alone and even alienated. Michele Neff Hernandez experienced this when her 39-year-old husband died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Her most transformative realization was that grief changes us. There is no going back or bucking up. Life is now different.

Grief changes everything. It silences the familiar, reshapes our days, and asks us to navigate a world that no longer feels whole. In The Shape of Sorrow, M.Y. Sard offers a compassionate and deeply human guide for anyone struggling to find light after loss. With grace, clarity, and emotional insight, this book walks beside you through the pain of heartbreak, the complexity of healing, and the quiet return of hope. Each chapter offers solace, understanding, and gentle encouragement—reminding us that while grief may reshape us, it does not erase the love we carry or the life still waiting ...

You are about to begin an amazing journey within your life’s path. I want to guide you to places within yourself that you never knew existed. I want to teach you that you can speak with your soul. You will discover abilities within your soul that you had always hoped were there. Your soul knows the journey that you are about to take. Your soul knows exactly how to get to the destination you will reach. I want you to trust in yourself. This book did not make its way into your hands by chance. You are reading this book because you are meant to read every word.

You're trying so hard to move on, but your heart still whispers their name. You smile in front of others, but cry behind closed doors. You're tired of pretending you're okay when you’re still breaking on the inside. This book isn't here to fix you. It's here to sit beside you in the ache. Each chapter gently walks you through the fog of loss, guiding you back to the parts of yourself you forgot while loving someone else too hard. If you're ready to let go — not just of them, but of the shame, guilt, and exhaustion — this book is your quiet permission to begin again. Not harder. Not ...

This devotional is not for the strong. It’s for the crushed. When life breaks you—when the tears won’t stop, the healing won’t come, and the shame won’t lift—where is God? Hope for the Broken is a 30-day journey through the truth that God does not turn away from the shattered. He draws near. Written for those who have failed, grieved, lost, or simply can’t hold it together anymore, this devotional offers daily gospel-saturated encouragement from Scripture—each page filled with raw honesty, deep theology, and the unwavering truth that Christ meets us in the wreckage, not just...

"Letter to a Young Medium" is a book that is dedicated to the soul lessons we all learn when we accept the calling of being a soul communicator for those who have died. Most books on mediumship focus on the practice of the work and how to create and maintain a link. Letter to a Young Medium explores, through multiple stories personal to the author, the soul lessons that visit us on this journey. These twelve lessons are powerful, and the author makes them deeply personal through an offering of his most vulnerable moments in his life. We all can relate to the moment when Death came into our ...

A memoir of five women sharing their stories of losing loved ones, their grief process and how they got through it. A book about hope, love, forgiveness, and healing. In this powerful anthology Ivy Caldwell along with a dynamic group of authors who have experienced a loss of a loved one in their lives comes together as a collaborative team to help others to heal. An awesome reference guide is also included at the end of the book as a resource to help families through the grieving process or preparation for loss.

The Promise of Tomorrow: Hope After Miscarriage is a compassionate guide through the emotional landscape of miscarriage, providing solace and understanding during one of life’s most challenging experiences. This heartfelt book serves as a gentle companion on the journey of healing, helping readers navigate their grief and rediscover hope. Inside, readers will explore the complex emotions that accompany loss, gain insight into the grieving process, and discover healthy coping mechanisms. It offers guidance on building a support system, practical self-care strategies, and ways to honor and ...

A chilling behind-bars encounter with a killer unfolds. Step into the heart-wrenching world of his victim’s grieving mother. Can the unforgivable be forgiven? As Tammy Horvath grapples with the weight of depression following her profound loss, she discovers that no amount of exercise or travel can completely mend her shattered soul. The quest for genuine healing takes a courageous turn as she confronts the murderer, unraveling the haunting mysteries behind Luke’s tragic death.

As young adults, John and Kara—father and daughter—had much in common. Avid sports lovers. Life of the party. Abiding faith in God. And a diagnosis that blindsided and benched them: aggressive, terminal cancer. John and Kara battled their diseases with cutting-edge medical treatments. Both had countless prayers lifted on their behalf. Both believed in a powerful, loving God who could heal. Yet one lived and one died. How can we accept both endings as from the hand of God? Did one person have greater favor? Deeper faith?

Just named winner in three categories - Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Awards! 1st Place - Grief 2nd Place - Self-Help/Motivational 2nd Place - Spiritual/Spirituality Four women, four grief stories. But these are not your ordinary grief journeys. These women not only survived their experiences, but found love and purpose along the way. They learned their loved ones who passed were not ever truly "gone." They were beside them, teaching them, guiding them to discover the secrets of life after life, and their own life purpose through their experiences.

Grief and loss can can leave a person emotionally drained, physically exhausted, and spiritually broken. In Comfort: Healing Words for Hurting Hearts, author Rev. Paul Ford shares encouragement from the Scriptures about the comfort only God can give. When well-meaning "thoughts and prayers" don't feel like they are helping, and you feel like you've cried until the tears have run dry, God has promised to comfort you as a mother comforts her children. Let God's Holy Spirit come alongside you as you meditate on these "healing words for hurting hearts."

Are you crushed by the approaching death of your cat? Discover a step-by-step guide to navigating the emotional journey of losing a much-loved feline. Are you overcome by your vet’s serious news? Are you worried you won’t know how to handle the loss of your beloved companion? Do you feel unprepared to manage your emotions and responsibilities? International bestselling author Wendy Van de Poll is the founder of the Center for Pet Loss Grief and has over twenty years of bereavement coaching experience. Now she’s here to reassure you that grieving and mourning is a normal reaction and ...

The Way Men Heal is a concise book that offers insight into the masculine side of healing. Have you ever wondered why men and women seem to heal differently? If so, this is a book for you. It explains how and why men and some women heal in an active mode rather than an interactive one. It offers plenty of examples including Eric Clapton and how he healed after the death of his young son Conor, and Michael Jordan and how he healed after his father’s murder. You will see how these men and many others use action as a means to tell their story. You will see how they are pulled to the future ...

Every one of us experiences periods of pain and loss in our life—dark nights of the soul. This is a groundless territory where one feels directionless and devoid of tools, with no sense of how to take the next step. In ancient times, elders guided their communities through life's initiations and challenges, paths we must all take to transform and grow. In Walking through Darkness, legendary shamanic experts Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts help us forge a pathway through the dark—as we embrace nature as our guide and healer.