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Mary Artino is a medical social worker with a 15-year career in hospice. She feels that loss is a subject that isn't addressed often enough in American culture and that much more can be done to begin teaching children about loss and death. This book is a collection of short stories that begins with her own experiences with death and loss within her family. The author believes that death is one of our most profound teachers. In writing Lessons on Loss Not Taught, Mary hopes to demystify the end-of-life experience, making it less foreboding and more relatable.

One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list—drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for 20 years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the same again. But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person. And crazed late-night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person who matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all.

Have you lost all desire to do anything with your life now that your spouse is gone? Are you so worried about the future that you’re having anxiety attacks? Do you find it hard to eat right and sleep well because you’re drowning in sorrow? You may have gone back to work to occupy your mind, but you realize you can’t focus. You feel empty and hollow inside, and it feels as though you’re sleepwalking through life. You just can't bear the sadness, constantly yearning for his or her presence.

"Dios me ayudó para que yo ayude a otros". Videlma Vogel perdió a su amado esposo en el año 2010 pero no perdió ni la fe, ni la esperanza, ni el amor. La fe en un Dios soberano, la esperanza de un reencuentro en el más allá y el amor por la vida. Pero este no es un libro que genere amargura. De ninguna manera. A los que han vivido pérdidas importantes ayudara con inteligentes reflexiones y consejos prácticos muy coherentes. Y a los oyentes en general permitirá entender mejor esa situación por la que tarde o temprano todos tendremos que vivir.

Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community – if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss is a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meeting one's own needs in these times of pain – especially when that pain is suffered alone.

This book offers a path to healing and setting a new course for your life after enduring a great loss. Written from the perspective of Life Between Lives, this book reveals that we are souls who have incarnated here on earth to learn and grow toward enlightenment. A great loss is the soul's invitation to return to the purpose we have set for this life after we have lost our way. Author Ann J. Clark shares dozens of stories that illustrate how you can cope with grief, reconnect to your inner self, work through guilt, and receive assistance from the spiritual realm.

What would you do if your child was diagnosed with cancer? Who would you reach out to? How would you and your family survive? If you want to know the answer to any of these questions, then this book is for you. 50 Things to Know About Parenting a Pediatric Cancer Survivor: Our Story of Battling the Beast, by Valerie Kline, offers an insight to pediatric cancer treatment that comes from personal experience.

Después de una vivencia traumática únicamente hay dos caminos: o permites que ese dolor te consuma o te fortaleces a partir de ese evento para resignificar tu experiencia y darle un sentido.

Este libro nos explica por qué cuando muere un ser querido parece que la vida se detiene y creemos que nunca podremos superar la pérdida, nos detalla bajo qué circunstancias los días se llenan de dolor y el sufrimiento se vuelve una presencia constante que nos impide reflexionar y avanzar. Pero gracias a los consejos y experiencias de Mario Guerra por fin tenemos una guía que nos ayudará a entender la pérdida, a llevar nuestros días con menos angustia y a racionalizar la muerte sin perder ilusiones ni amor.

Bitter. Broken. Angry. Empty. That about sums it up! My heart was snatched from me without remorse and life as I know it no longer exists. No one understood the pain. Friends and family who wished me the best only made things worst by saying all the right things at the wrong times. I was alone, abandoned even by God, and no one could comfort my dying soul. Reliving my son's last moments every time my loss was mentioned became my reoccurring trauma. Nothing prepared me for this. I realized the only way past the grief was through it, and that’s what pushed me to the pen.

Death is simply one more aspect of being a human being, but in our culture, we've made it a taboo. As a result, most of us walk through life with conscious or unconscious fears that prevent us from experiencing true contentment. Embracing the End of Life invites you to lean into your beliefs and questions about death and dying, helping you release tense or fearful energy and awaken to a more vital life now.

A touching look at the joys and the sorrows that come with pet ownership. See how a white rabbit won at a carnival affects the lives of people and even animals around her, and decide if the lessons of loss at a beloved pet's passing are worth the lessons of love they can bring.

Rory was a streetwise kid from one of the city’s toughest housing projects. Ricky, the pretty boy athlete, escaped the mean streets of north St. Louis to become a mentor and coach. Joseph was born to teenage parents, as was his younger half-brother, Little T. Neither would live past 19. Brenda, the no-nonsense mother-in-the-law, played the role of confidant and critic until breast cancer ravaged her body and spread to her brain. All died within a span of 19 months. Four of them in the same year, two violently.

Stepping-Stones is a compilation of heartfelt stories of courage, love, and letting go, taken from the journal pages of a hospice caregiver who spent two decades at the bedside of dying patients. The book encompasses end-of-life care, quality of life, patient autonomy, and spiritual diversity in a compassionate and thought-provoking way. A moving and gentle account of what we all must one day face.

Sympathisch, kompetent, menschlich nah und humorvoll - so kennt man Dr. Johannes Wimmer aus Internet und TV. Ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag stellt das Leben des beliebten TV-Mediziners von einem Moment auf den anderen auf den Kopf. Nur wenige Monate nach der Geburt erkrankt seine kleine Tochter schwer. Die Familie verliert den Kampf um das Leben des Kindes. Hautnah und sehr persönlich teilt Dr. Wimmer nun, wie er und seine Familie es schaffen, sich von der Faust des Universums nicht erdrücken zu lassen, auch wenn ihnen im Schmerz manchmal die Luft zum Atmen fehlt.

A hilarious diary format about a kid who grows up on the streets of Las Vegas. This game called life isn't an east one, but luckily, Ray is a fast learner and catches on quick. After enduring a couple setbacks, he knew he took all the things that made him happy for granted and remorsefully crashed down to rock bottom. Through all his experiences of sex, drugs, gambling, and violence, Ray displays a fantastic sense of humor that pulls you in as you listen. Ray uses his humorous wit to turn any traumatic situation into a comical one. It's truly dark comedy at its best!

After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void? The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief.

On a hot afternoon in July of 2019, E.A. Tobolski's husband was hit by a pickup truck as he rode his motorcycle home to her. Two hours later, she arrived at the hospital and was told "they did all they could". Her husband of 28 years and partner for 31 died, leaving her to mourn him and parts of her own definition. The life she lived for over half her life, one which nourished her and gave her purpose, had been ripped away and replaced with the painfully uncertain life of widowhood.

Comment dire adieu à un être cher alors que le monde entier est frappé par une crise sanitaire, que le défunt repose au Nigeria et que ses enfants sont bloqués en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis ? Le père de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vient de mourir. Séparée de ses proches, cette dernière vit un deuil empêché et solitaire. Elle écrit alors sous la forme de courts chapitres, composés comme des soubresauts de chagrin et de rage, où l'amour et l'admiration qu'elle portait à son père explosent à chaque page.

Just as death is inevitable, talking about death is an inevitable part of parenting. Dr. Elena Lister and Dr. Michael Schwartzman offer us the way to have conversations with children that are as much about life as they are about death—conversations that anyone who parents, teaches, or counsels children can have.