Relationship Loss Grief

Already Here tells of the death of Leo Galland's son, Christopher, at age 22; the direct visual evidence Christopher showed Leo that our souls do go on; and the communications from Christopher's spirit that changed Leo's understanding of life and its meaning. In life, Christopher was a brain-damaged special-needs child who challenged everyone he knew with unpredictable behavior and uncanny insights. After his death, he revealed to Leo the real purpose of his life, as a spiritual guide who taught others by confounding their assumptions and expectations.

Some would describe our relationship as a match made in heaven. We met by fluke, fell madly in love, married, and shared fifty-three years of life together. She died on December 31st, 2022 of liver cancer. This memoir represents a deeply profound reflection on my life prior to our joining of hands in matrimony, to the moment when my wife died, and how her death impacted on my very existence. Join with us as we move from love at first sight, to my experiences with death as I grew to adulthood and then served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

October Joy: Moments in Paradise Series, Book One Annika loves a good love story. She lived her own for twenty-five years with her high school sweetheart, raising five children with Andrew Morgan and enjoying her life as a pastor’s wife from the Midwest Farmlands to the California Coast. But five years ago when her life on Earth ended in a fatal car accident, she began a wonderful new life in Paradise. Now her days are filled with many different sources of joy, but her family remains close to her heart. Her view of their lives from her heavenly dwelling is very sweet and peace-filled, but...

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

Com momentos tocantes, tensos e também divertidos, Histórias lindas de morrer nos relembra a importância das relações humanas e do respeito ao outro. Como médica paliativa, Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes cuida de pacientes terminais há mais de vinte anos, em contato íntimo com os momentos de maior vulnerabilidade do ser humano. Uma das principais vozes na tentativa de quebrar o tabu sobre a morte no Brasil, ela nos traz uma coleção de emocionantes histórias reais colhidas em sua prática diária, em que a proximidade do fim nos revela em toda a nossa profundidade.

Family is complicated...but that's okay... Resolute is the second novella in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Noah Andersen had built his successful company from the ground up. He isn’t thrilled that several of his conference rooms have become a home-away-from-home for a team of government auditors trying to ferret out evidence to back up the anonymous tip received pointing in his direction. Noah knows where the tip came from. And now that he’s got his sister safely ensconced with their aunt he’s ready to take on the person responsible, her husband. But if he turns his brother-in-law...

Designed to comfort and offer a gentle path through mourning, The Staggering Loss of Your Dog explores effective coping mechanisms and emotional support methods that provide solace in the healing journey.

Hace tres años viví lo que sería el derrumbe de mi vida: tres grandes pérdidas en solo tres meses. La primera fue la ruptura de 34 años de matrimonio. Aunque fue un duelo liberador, trajo consigo desilusión y una marcada debilidad económica. Después ocurrió la muerte accidental de mi yerno, un ser maravilloso que dejó a mi hija mayor de 32 años viuda y con un hijo de poco más de un año, ambos absolutamente devastados y sin piso. Finalmente, a las dos semanas, ocurrió la muerte de mi madre, (81 años) quien seguía siendo el centro de la familia, una matriarca.

Are you caring for a loved one in hospice care or have you recently lost someone you love? Whether it’s an elderly parent or a terminally ill spouse or child, the passing of someone you love is a life-changing experience. It affects family, friends, as well as hospice team members who provide end-of-life care. The story of every life lived deserves to be shared with others. Letters to a Hospice Nurse is a celebration of life! This audiobook is a collection of 12 beautiful love letters.

In this supportive guide, a widow and a mental-health expert provide guidance and thoughtful advice for anyone dealing with traumatic loss.

This book is a guide to death and the mysterious world beyond. The rituals, meditations, and exercises are designed to bring you on a journey of discovery through the most profound of all human transitions. Filled with insight and practical guidance, it shows you how to honor family and friends in spirit and discover the life-affirming aspects of every state of existence.

In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love.

An illuminating, intricately woven memoir about friendships, loss, and language—a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death.

Addressing every aspect of the illusions taught as life, from marriage to religion, Love: The Real Word of God speaks the truths of the manipulation placed upon the human race that would lead humanity to choosing its own destruction. Love and God have been defined inaccurately, to keep humanity far from love, which is God, therefore, giving control to the energy opposite of our natural existence. This series will not only break down the manipulations but also provide answers on how to change the path created for the human races destruction though control.

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

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.

The pain and shock when a child dies can seem unbearable. But expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly, who has suffered many personal losses, has gained wisdom and strategies for emotional recovery. By sharing, understanding, and accepting this tragic loss, bereaved parents, siblings, and others can cope with this intense grief.

Sparked by extraordinary experiences that occurred in her family when her father and her sister both died in 2008, Patricia Pearson was launched on a journey of investigation into what she calls "a curious sort of modern underground - a world beneath the secular world, inhabited by ordinary human beings having extraordinary experiences that they aren't, on the whole, willing to disclose".

Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one’s capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy - and necessary - following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon, illustrating devotion as both the primary cause of grief and a crucial source of emotional recovery. Exploring the essential principles of love as well as the reasons behind it, this heartfelt handbook makes it possible to embrace a trying but vital process.

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist David R. Dow confronts the reality of his work on death row when his father-in-law is diagnosed with lethal melanoma, his beloved Doberman becomes fatally ill, and his young son begins to comprehend the implications of mortality. "Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone".