Grief/Loss
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Expected Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief
We don't only experience grief after a loss-we often experience it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we're concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal, but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and change is hard. This book will help see you through.
$13.95
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Final Gifts
Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
$29.50
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Final Journeys
The coauthor of the classic bestseller Final Gifts passes along the lessons she has learned from the experts- her patients. Here is the guide we all need to understanding the special needs of the dying and those who care for them. From supporting a husband or wife faced with the loss of a spouse to helping a dying mother prepare her children to carry on without her, Callanan's poignant stories illustrate new ways to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of this difficult and precious time. She brings welcome clarity to medical and ethical concerns, explaining what to expect at every stage.
$24.95
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Finding Meaning
The Sixth Stage of Grief This book offers readers a road map to remembering those who have died with more love than pain; we learn how to move forward in a way that honors our loved ones. This is a vital guide to healing from tremendous loss. It is an inspiring, deeply intelligent must-read for anyone looking to journey away from suffering, through loss, and towards meaning.
$24.99
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief Workbook
Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love In this companion workbook to David's bestselling book Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, you will come to understand your unique and personal experience with grief and begin to work through the loss, releasing the hurt and learning to grieve with more love than pain . . . because love never dies. And it is in that love where you can find meaning. Written with warmth, sensitivity, and unique insight, you'll feel like you are sitting with David, having a conversation along your path to healing.
$29.95
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Finding the Words
How to Talk to Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other End-of-Life Matters With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest but child-appropriate language is advocated, and various wording and levels of explanation are suggested for different ages when discussing topics such as death in general, suicide, homicide, accidental death, the death of a child, terminal illness, pet death, funerals, and cremation. An ideal book for parents, caregivers, and counselors looking for an easy resource when talking to youths about death, this book can be used for any setting, religious or otherwise.
$16.95
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Finding Your Way Through Loss and Grief
Psychotherapist Christine Hopfgarten looks in detail at different reasons that we may encounter feelings of loss and grief, including bereavement, relationship break-up, losing a job, infertility, miscarriage and illness, and provides focused help. Christine offers a gentle and empathetic approach that will help you work through your grief. She shows you the tools you need to help you fully process your feelings, enabling you to: Understand your loss, identifying what it means to you Develop acceptance, allowing yourself to move through the grieving process Learn to express, and not suppress, your emotions - without feeling completely overwhelmed Define where you want to get to, so you are clear on what it is you are working toward Cope with and adapt to changes, to eventually help you to embrace your new reality
$19.95
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First Aid for Broken Hearts
Life is both wonderful and devastating. It graces us with joy, and it breaks our hearts. If your heart is broken, this book is for you. Whether you're struggling with a death, break-up, illness, unwanted life change, or loss of any kind, this book will help you both understand your predicament and figure out what to do about it. Loss may be an unavoidable part of human life, but it doesn't have to prevent you from living well. You can and will survive this. Actually, if you adopt this guide's basic principles, revealed and tested by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you will even go on to thrive.
$13.95
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Fred Stays With Me! (Divorce)
Told from the point of view of a young child whose parents are divorced, this book follows a girl and her dog, Fred, from one parent's house to the other's, giving her a sense of continuity and stability. With a simple text and childlike language, the story expresses and addresses a child's concerns, highlights the friendship between child and pet, presents a common ground for the parents, and resolves conflict in a positive way. Tricia Tusa's charming and whimsical artwork adds a light, happy feel to this poignant - but not overly sentimental - story.
$12.99
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Goodbye Book
Through the lens of a pet fish who has lost his companion, Todd Parr tells a moving and wholly accessible story about saying goodbye. Touching upon the host of emotions children experience, Todd reminds readers that it's okay not to know all the answers, and that someone will always be there to support them. An invaluable resource for life's toughest moments.
$24.99
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Goodbye, Friend
Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet In this book, Gary Kowalski takes you on a journey of healing, offering warmth and sound advice on how to cope with the death of your pet. Filled with heartwarming stories and practical guidance on such matters as taking care of yourself while mourning, creating rituals to honor your pet's memory, and talking to children about death, Goodbye, Friend is a beautiful and comforting book for anyone grieving the loss of a beloved animal.
$24.95
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Goodbye: A First Conversation About Grief
This topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and compelling imagery to introduce the concept of grief to children. This book aims to normalize the topic of death by discussing what it means and how it feels to experience loss. It centers around several questions that arise about grief and honest, simple ways to answer them. The backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.
$21.99
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Grief Companion
A Supportive Guide to Navigating Grief The Grief Companion is a modern illustrated deck of cards that provides gentle guidance, support, and knowledge for those navigating loss and grief. No two people grieve in the same way. The Grief Companion is a non-linear collection of cards that offers insights into the ever-evolving grieving process: providing thoughts and facts to help you feel grounded and seen; ideas on how to honor your loss and memory; and resources you can rely on as your experience of grief continues to shift. The cards can be used in a number of different ways. Simply pull an Insight, Action, or Prompt card every day or every week as part of a mindful intention, or during a difficult moment to be comforted. The cards are designed with dozens of actions and reflections that can be easily incorporated into your routine to guide and support you on your unique path. With The Grief Companion, you'll be empowered to better understand the grieving process and its effects as you learn coping mechanisms and, most of all, feel supported in your grieving experience. Each card is hand-painted with a unique geometrical pattern.
$29.99
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Grief Deck
Rituals, Meditations, and Tools for Moving through Loss A unique and supportive tool that will help you constructively address grief in daily life, a little bit at a time. Everyone faces grief in their own way and in their own time. No matter where you are in your grief journey, The Grief Deck meets you there and offers sensitive and engaging activities to guide you forward. Sixty beautifully illustrated cards, created by a diverse array of artists and grief workers, feature thoughtful prompts, simple activities, and grounding resources for coping with loss, including: Meditations for reconnecting with your body and senses and taking moments to reflect in nature; Prompts to help you address anxiety, hold a vigil, or create rituals of remembrance; Guidance on finding time for intentional rest and developing daily routines; And much more. These activities-each one paired with artwork for reflection-can be explored in any order, at any time they are needed. Paired with a grief journal or other traditional grief books, this card deck provides an active path for resilient grieving and recovery from loss. It can be used effectively by individuals, families, and groups, is an indispensable tool for grief counselors and death doulas, and makes a meaningful gift for anyone grieving the loss of a partner, parent, friend, pet, or anyone close to their heart.
$29.95
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Grief Handbook: A Guide Through the Worst Days of Your Life
There is no one-size-fits-all recovery process for bereavement. Understanding that each experience of grief is unique, you can stop worrying about how you should be feeling. This interactive journal offers you room to explore your feelings at your own pace, helping you not to shy away from the enormity of your heartbreak. To be able to move through grief we need to understand our emotions, tune into our needs and know that what we are feeling is normal. Grief isn't something to "get over", but a loss to honour and live with. This gentle book shows us how.
$24.95
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Grief Is an Elephant
An imaginative and heartfelt book that reminds us that there is no loss without love. When Grief first arrives, it is like an elephant-so big that there is hardly room for anything else. But over time, Grief can become smaller and smaller-first a deer, then a fox, a mouse, and finally a flickering firefly in the darkness leading us down a path of loving remembrance. This lyrical work is an empathetic and comforting balm for anyone who is experiencing grief, be it grieving the loss of a loved one or losses in the world around us.
$26.99
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Grief is Like A Snowflake
Grief is like a snowflake. Each snowflake is different, and everyone shows grief differently. After the death of his father, Little Tree begins to learn how to cope with his feelings and start the healing process. With the help and support of his family and friends, Little Tree learns to cope by discovering what's really important in life and that his father's memory will carry on.
$15.95
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Grief Recovery for Teens
Letting Go of Painful Emotions with Body-Based Practices In this helpful and healing guide, the director of the Children's Grief Connection offers practices to help you deal with the physical aspects of grief and loss. Did you know that grief can also affect your body? That's because the brain and the body are much more connected than you might think. In this compassionate guide, you'll discover how your mind can affect the way you feel physically, and discover body-oriented skills to help your body heal after experiencing loss. You'll also find ways to relieve feelings of anxiety and confusion that can make your physical symptoms worse, and finally begin the healing process.
$34.95
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GriefWork Companion
Activities for Healing The GriefWork Companion was developed to help adults who are grieving heal from their losses. The book contains worksheets, quotations, and educational and journaling pages. It is a user-friendly and effective self-help resource. Seven chapters guide the reader through the grieving process and include: Let's Get Started, Getting In Touch, Telling Your Story, Self-Care, Relationships, Special Days, and A New Normal. It is also a companion book for mental health professionals' clients, to use in conjunction with GriefWork - Healing From Loss.
$42.95
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Griefwork For Teens
Loss is a part of everyone s life at some point. Each person reacts to a loss in a personal way. As well as the emotional response, loss also has physical, intellectual, behavioral, social and philosophical dimensions. Response to loss is varied and is influenced by beliefs and practices. GriefWork for Teens is for facilitators to help grieving teens heal from their losses. The authors refer to the psychological process of coping with a significant loss as grief work.
$72.95
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GriefWork: Healing from Loss
Reproducible Interactive & Educational Handouts This book is for therapists, counselors, group facilitators and other professionals working to help grieving people heal from their losses. Everyone experiences loss. We refer to the psychological process of coping with a significant loss as grief work. The range of behaviors, emotions and attitudes is huge. Throughout the book we use the terms normalize and New Normal to convey that everyone's grief has a unique expression and is that particular person's 'normal.' The handouts in GriefWork ' Healing from Loss will engage those who grieve and encourage them to identify, internalize and/or verbalize personal feelings while working through the grieving process. The book contains activity and educational handouts and journaling pages which can be used in individual counseling sessions, educational settings and support groups.
$72.95
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Grieving Brain
The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss Neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others; but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future that encompasses their absence. Based on O'Connor's own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
$21.99
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Grieving Child
A Parent's Guide Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative can face. The Grieving Child offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a child cope with the death of a parent or other loved one. Parents of children from preschool age to the teen years will find much-needed guidance, covering: Helping a child visit the seriously ill or dying, Using language appropriate to a child's age level, Selecting useful books about death, Handling especially difficult situations, including murder and suicide, and Deciding whether a child should attend a funeral. With a chapter devoted to the special issues of the bereaved toddler, The Grieving Child provides invaluable suggestions for dealing with a child's emotional responses (including anger, guilt, and depression) and helping a child adjust to a new life.
$24.95
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Grieving is Loving
Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable If you love, you will grieve-and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. This book is a companion to carry with you throughout your day, to touch in with and be supported by when bearing the unbearable pain of a loved one's death-whether weeks or years since their passing. Our culture often makes the bereaved feel alone, isolated, broken, and like they should just "get over it"-this book offers a loving antidote. Open to any page and you'll find something that will instantly help you feel not alone, while honoring the full weight of loss.
$21.95
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