Loss Recovery

Final Journey: After the publication of "Finally Home," Buddy was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Once the unthinkable happened and Buddy's precious life was cut short, his family was left heartbroken and devastated. At the same time, in another state, poor economic conditions forced another family to give up their golden retriever. As fate would have it, his name...was Buddy. While they were mourning the loss of their beloved dog, another dog was mourning the loss of his treasured family. Brought together by misfortune, they entered each other's lives to help put back together the pieces ...

We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief—deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss.

You know how devastating it is to lose a loved one. Coping with bereavement is a painful and bumpy journey with many twists and turns. It helps to have an outline or rough roadmap along this painful and bumpy journey, with a few short stories sprinkled in just to illustrate certain points. Give yourself time; handling and overcoming bereavement is all part of the journey.

After conquering a life-threatening disease, Dr. Robert Zembroski challenged himself to thrive in the wake of devastating illness. Now in Rebuild, he offers a comprehensive plan developed from years of both personal and professional experience. As Dr. Z says, “What I did for myself, and my patients, this book can do for you.” Rebuild provides simple yet proven guidelines to ensure that what you eat and how you exercise and manage other aspects of your lifestyle contribute to your personal recovery and the level of health you want to achieve.

A Story of Unwavering Love, Unthinkable Loss, and Unshakable Faith For 25 years, Pastor John E. Miller and his wife, Carla, devoted their lives to caring for their son, Peter Flint Miller—a child with special needs who depended on them for everything. Every four hours, every single day, their love took the form of feeding, bathing, dressing, and comforting their son. But on March 8, 2025, Peter took his final breath, and their world changed forever. In Grace in the Hard Places, John and Carla share their raw, personal journey through caregiving, grief, and the faith that sustained them. ...

If you want to eliminate your fitness fears & discover how to transform your body with chair yoga and other healthy habits, read on! As the years go by, are you finding it harder to keep your body moving and feeling good? Have you noticed your body isn't as strong or flexible as it used to be? Are you feeling the weight of a few extra pounds you just can’t seem to shed? Chair Yoga for Weight Loss provides a supportive and non-intimidating approach to fitness. With simple chair exercises and achievable goals, you can build confidence in your abilities and feel empowered to take control of ...

Coping with personal loss is one of life’s greatest challenges. At some point, we all experience its associated pain, grief, and suffering. None of us can escape the reality that unexpected situations will occur and in a twinkle, our lives can change in ways we never imagined. What do you do when your world falls apart? Can you recover when your hopes are shattered, when relationships are broken or you lose your job, loved ones, health, or dreams? This book provides practical steps to move from loss to recovery. It helps you overcome the shock, grief, disappointment, and bewilderment and ...

Nobody gets through life free from the pain of loss. However, we aren’t very good at processing what grief does to us. If left unchecked, it can seriously damage our mental health. In this book, chartered psychologist and trauma counsellor Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell offers a roadmap for grief recovery. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, stories from her own patients, and a series of practical tools and exercises, this book will help you work through your loss so you can embrace life with hope again.

A True Short Story of Healing, Grief, and the Dog Who Helped Me Find Peace This is a true story—short, but deeply personal. For over fifty years, the author lived with the quiet, enduring weight of trauma. From the hidden scars of war to the heartbreaking loss of beloved companions, grief became a constant presence. Then came Maya—a small dog with a powerful gift: the ability to sense pain, to sit with sorrow, and to offer something no human ever could… unconditional love without expectation. This is not a war memoir. This is a story about what comes after—about surviving when ...

An appropriate gastric sleeve eating routine will enable you to lose the most weight and maintain it afterward. Know what you can and can't eat amid each phase of the pre-operation and recuperation process, alongside supper thoughts and patient tips to remain on track.

Pet grief is still grief – this book about pet grief recovery offers emotional validation and practical guidance for your path toward healing. Pet loss is one of life's hardest emotional experiences. The empty food bowl that will never need filling again. The leash hanging silently by the door. The sudden stillness in spaces once filled with purrs, barks, or gentle footsteps. When we lose a pet, we lose not just an animal, but a piece of our daily life, a source of unconditional love, and a cherished soul who shared our most intimate moments.

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You’ll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience - a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams.

“Taking care of yourself is just as important as taking care of your baby.” Dr. Jena Bradley In Diastasis Recti and Post-Partum Recovery Secrets for New Moms, author and mother of two beautiful children Becky Choi offers seven powerful secrets that helped her to recover from two incidents of Diastasis Recti after childbirth. You will learn tried and tested methods for post-partum healing of core muscle weakness, abdominal separation and weight loss, so that you can be confident that you can get fit without making your condition worse. In this ground-breaking new Post-Partum care book ...

In March 2010, The Scripps Research Institute released a study showing that rats on a junk-food diet had just as difficult a time - if not more so - giving up excess fat and sugar as the rats who were struggling to recover from cocaine dependence. The results showed that certain foods actually alter the brain's chemistry, making our consumption of these foods less like an indulgence and more like an addiction. Dr. Dow, a psychologist who specializes in addictive behavior and eating disorders, here introduces a four-week program for breaking the hold that food has over the body, mind, and spirit.

Homesteading in the Calm Eye of the Storm is a companion book to my self-help book: COMPLEX PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. Homesteading is also a memoir of my journey of recovering from C-PTSD. Written in a more playful, easier to read style than my other books, it is much less dense and relatively free of psychological jargon. Several previewers have described it as rich, poignant, funny and full of self-disclosive anecdotes that are sure to help other survivors in their recovery. "Homesteading" has two parts. In Part I, I escape from my dysfunctional family and backpack around the ...

The past is a tricky place. For some, it's a place to be held on to desperately, for others, a place never to be revisited. For Micah Oramah, the pain of a profound loss has caused his faith to be shaken. Blinded by grief, he questions if serving God is actually worth it. Former gay makeup artist, Zainab Baruwa-Phillips is head over heels in love with God. The only cloud is her past which she is desperate to erase. However, she'll learn that her past is a strength God is looking to use for his glory. Almost everything in Shola's life seems to be falling apart. With a rain of emotions ...

If you like stories that bring a tear and a smile, join a crotchety professor, his psychic wife, tech-guru daughter, clever grandchildren, and loyal best friends on a journey to overcome a past tragedy. As in any family story, there's laughter and love between the troubled times. The clever dialogue, surprising humor, and poignant ending will make you feel as if the Andrew Ward family is just like your own. Editorial Praise for To Leave a Memory "A warm portrait of a family coming together to forgive ... the colorful dialogue keeps the story moving ... There's a pleasing amount of healthy ...

One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs's life forever.... Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance? In beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny prose, Stephanie Wittels Wachs alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, which she learned about three days before her wedding, and the first year after his death, in all its emotional devastation.

Embark on a heart-wrenching journey alongside Hope Rodriguez in "Hope Lost," the captivating second book of the Hope series. As she tirelessly seeks solace and fulfillment, Hope's path takes unforeseen twists and turns, challenging her notions of love and redemption. With unwavering determination, Hope sets her sights on Michael Trent, the man who holds the key to her happiness. Yet, amidst her plans, an encounter with a child trapped in the clutches of sex trafficking shatters her world. Seeing it as a divine opportunity to experience motherhood once again, Hope embraces the chance to save...

After twenty-four years of daily drinking, Ed Wyrick hit his bottom and tossed out his last bottle of vodka. As a high school counselor in a rural county in the middle of the Bible belt, he feared for his job if he revealed his addiction, so he tried detoxing on his own. When he gave up and surrendered to a treatment center, doctors said he was lucky to have survived. Three months later, he quit smoking cigarettes. Eighteen months after that, he’d lost seventy pounds and was running five miles a day. More than twelve years have passed, and he remains free of alcohol, cigarettes, fat, and ...