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Written by a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience taking care of terminally ill patients and helping them find comfort and peace as they near their appointed time, Pathway to Heaven Without Fear shares how death is not the final outcome, but a bridge to our new heavenly home. Author Melissa Ralph shares her real experiences in nursing and faith along with comforting scriptures to bring a better understanding of the unknown to listeners looking for a way to draw closer to God.

In Normal Broken, Kelly Cervantes isn't trying to tell you what to do, how to feel, or the right way to heal. She's also not flinging sunny thoughts, vibes, and prayers at you. After losing her daughter to epilepsy, she knows that grief is many things. Something everyone will have to deal with. But never linear. Just as what we are grieving varies, so do our journeys to process it. Normal Broken was born out of this desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them.

For us, it was a literal knock, with two men standing in crisply pressed uniforms. They had news. News that gutted us to the core - the death of our loved ones, a brother and two husbands - in combat zones. The thing about those moments is that it's almost inconceivable that they can happen to you. That is, until they do.

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.

What colour is cancer? Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries? How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life? How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve? In this unprecedented memoir, a palliative medicine pioneer explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. Kathryn Mannix immortalises the thousands of men and women she has seen off.

In this amazing work, Westbrook generously shares with us the tools he has used and created over the last 30 years to bring comfort - physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual - to the dying, the families of the dying, and their professional and lay caregivers. Using the narrative style of Native Americans, Westbrook role-models his tools through a series of powerful, poignant, and moving stand-alone stories which illustrate precisely how to journey and navigate some of the most difficult end-of-life situations, and to do so with grace, equanimity, and deep partnership.

Struggling with grief? You are not alone. This transformative guide, "Grief Recovery for Adults," offers hope, healing, and a pathway back to purpose.

Grief hits hard, and as a man, you're often expected to carry on without breaking. But what if there was a way to handle your emotions and keep yourself on track? Understanding Grief Coping with Loss: Practical Information for Men Seeking Healing, Support, and Recovery Dealing with the Loss of a Loved One, is a practical, no-nonsense guide for men navigating the pain of losing a loved one. This book offers straightforward advice, actionable tips, and tools to help you take charge of your emotions, honour your loss, and move forward with purpose.

At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects. Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

heart beating among the thorns, is a collection of gentle reminders with a poetic touch for those who feel lost, stuck in pain, or weighed down by relationships, yet still want to rebuild. This book is for you if you’re searching for hope and trying to find your way again. There is something remarkable about the heart that suffers, yet continues to love; that shatters, yet continues to dream. When life falls apart, the hardest part isn’t just surviving—it’s finding the strength to start over. This self-help book will help you heal, reminding you that even in pain, your heart still ...

Tanatóloga experimentada, Ligia M. Houben examina su proceso personal tras la muerte de su madre, como ejemplo de pérdida vivida, comparte su propia historia con el lector —quien también ha perdido a un ser querido— y lo invita a caminar junto a ella a través del duelo.

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. 'I was in "the void,"' she writes, 'a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.' Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

You go to wake up your eighteen-year-old son on Sunday morning for church and you find him dead in his bed. Only later do you learn he bought a single Xanax pill on Snapchat for fifteen dollars to calm his anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic. He took the pill then ordered food from Door Dash, but he never lived to eat it. It was a counterfeit pill that contained over three times the lethal dose of fentanyl—that one pill killed him.

Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

Eden had her best friend Katie—she didn’t need anyone else. But then there was Truman. Katie’s older brother, the artist. The recluse. The boy with the innocent smile and the dangerous eyes. Eden had never really known Truman—not until the night of Katie’s accident. That was the night they’d finally let each other into their orbits—only to have the sky come crashing down on them.

La vuelta a las librerías de Mara Torres con la historia de su hermana Aly, alguien que deseaba vivir pero no fue capaz de conseguirlo. Mara Torres ha escrito un libro lleno de cariño y delicadeza. Un gran homenaje a su hermana Alicia para tratar de entender las razones que la llevaron al suicidio, y una forma también de seguir demostrándole su amor, más allá del tiempo y la existencia. Este relato en primera persona se cruza con un texto de su hermana que encontraron entre sus pertenencias. Un diario en el que Alicia Torres iba desgranando su vida.

When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn't know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson's The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who've experienced a life-changing loss.

Shedding light on one of the great mysteries of existence, An Energy Healer’s Book of Dying offers a compact yet comforting guide to support you through this emotional, grief-filled, and exhausting time and help you bring solace to your loved one during the transition back to spirit.

Family is the one thing you can rely on when the chips are down and you need help. When so-called friends and colleagues desert you in your hour of need, it is family that will likely be there to help you put the pieces back together again. Maintaining a close and loving relationship with your family members is crucial for so many reasons, so it’s vitally important that you work on it as hard as possible. This book, The Eternal Pain, gives a deep insight into why our families are so important to us and how we can work to keep those strong bonds and make them even stronger.

On October 9, 2010, at the age of 86, Teddy Key passed away at her Florida home, her family by her side. Nineteen days later, her beautiful voice began to communicate with her eldest daughter, Frances, about the scope and wonder of her new perspective from the afterlife state. Through a variety of experiences including automatic writing, direct contact, and sudden downloads of information, this remarkable collection of insights was handwritten in less than a year.