Grief/Loss
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Krista Helman Over The Rainbow: The Love, Loss & Legacy of Your Dog
Written by a social worker and therapist, this book invites you to explore the profound grief that follows the loss of a beloved pet. Discover why dogs hold a special place in our hearts, the reason we feel so much pain from their death, and chart a path forward. Featuring heartfelt stories from fellow pet lovers, including the author's own journey, this book validates your grief and reveals the healing power of renewing connection after death.
$29.95
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Julia Sorensen Overcoming Loss: Activities And Stories To Help Transform Children's Grief And Loss
This reproducible resource addresses children's' feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or grandparent. Children are often unable to articulate their grief in words. The activities in Overcoming Loss use the power of play and creative arts to give the grieving child the language to identify subtle feelings, such as shame, despair and jealousy. Designed to encourage social and emotional learning, these exercises employ play, art and story-telling to access the ways in which children naturally express their feelings, and offers opportunities for parents and professionals to direct the child towards understanding their emotions.
$55.00
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Christina McGhee Parenting Apart: How Separated and Divorced Parents Can Raise Happy and Secure Kids
This comprehensive and empowering guide is filled with practical, effective ways to minimize the effects of divorce on children, and offers immediate solutions to the most critical parenting problems divorce brings. This go-to resource addresses the issues including: how and when to tell the children about the divorce, guiding children through transition, helping children cope with having two homes, dealing with finances and more.
$25.95
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Sherry L. O'Brian Peaks and Valleys: Integrative Approaches for Recovering from Loss
Learn how to transform your pain into possibility.Many losses are subtle and go unrecognized; some are life changing. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, a relationship, or a job, the energy of grief often weighs heavily upon our hearts. These losses can accumulate and make it difficult for us to enjoy life. This book provides readers with powerful tools to transform and recover from any kind of loss and reawaken to the possibility of joy in their lives.Are you having difficulty moving forward after a significant loss? Are you searching for meaning and purpose in your life? Have you lost your sense of self or identity as a result of a significant loss?The powerful tools and techniques shared in this book will keep help people who are you having difficulty moving forward or who are searching for meaning and purpose in their life after a significant loss. In short, the author will help all to triumph over tragedy.
$17.50 $10.50
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Jane George Playing with the Angels: Stories of Possibilities for Grieving Children
This gentle series of short stories are all about children who have lost a loved one. The title and the development of this book was inspired by a young child. When someone at a funeral home told the four year old that her mother was now playing with the angels, she asked the question: why would her Mommy rather be playing with angels than with her? Each story is inspired by real kids and their real losses, helping children who are living with grief to realize that they are not alone. The storytelling is complemented by the works of Vancouver artist Mattie Zelinski that capture the magic, mystery, and possibility of what may lie beyond life on this Earth. Ages 6-10
$19.99 $11.99
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Kirsten DeLeo Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying
This book offers insight and encouragement when we are unsure what to do or say and shows us how to be present even though we may feel utterly helpless, love when loss is just around the corner, and be fully alive to each moment as time runs out. It offers the guidance and essential wisdom we need when we are struggling to support someone who is nearing death. This book helps us meet the many challenges ahead and navigate through difficult times with clarity and kindness--both for the person who is dying and also for ourselves.
$22.95
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Brian Lies Rough Patch
Evan and his dog do everything together, from eating ice cream to caring for their prize-winning garden, which grows big and beautiful. One day the unthinkable happens: Evans dog dies. Heartbroken, Evan destroys the garden and everything in it. The ground becomes overgrown with prickly weeds and thorns, and Evan embraces the chaos. But beauty grows in the darkest of places, and when a twisting vine turns into an immense pumpkin, Evan is drawn out of his isolation and back to the county fair, where friendships old and new await. A 2019 Caldecott Honor book.
$24.99
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Steve Herman Sad Dragon, The (My Dragon Books - Volume 28)
Having a pet dragon is very fun! He can sit, roll over, and play… He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other fun things that will make you laugh… But sometimes, not every story is a happy one… What if your dragon is suffering from a loss of a loved one? What if he’s sad, angry, and heartbroken because his loved one passed away, and he cries and cries and cries? What should you do? You teach him about Grief and Loss. You explain death to him, and help him get through this difficult time!
$21.95
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Krista Helman Self Care Moments
Created by a social worker and therapist, Self-Care Moments: A Workbook to Navigate Your Grief is a compassionate companion for anyone experiencing loss, designed to help you process grief and discover moments of healing. Whether used alone or with the self-help book Over the Rainbow: The Love, Loss, & Legacy of Your Dog, this workbook offers a range of activities-including journaling, guided meditations, and hands-on reflections-to deepen understanding and foster meaningful insights.
$29.95
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Bonnie Zucker, Kim Fleming Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler's Guide to Understanding Death
A story to help two- and three-year-olds understand death and the feelings associated with the loss of a loved one includes information for parents and caregivers on answering questions and helping a child cope with grief.
$24.95
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Sarah Leavitt Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
A poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir about love and loss and navigating a new life In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of grief and loss. The comics started as small sketches but quickly transformed into something totally unfamiliar to her. Abstract images, textures, poetic text, layers of watercolour, ink, and coloured pencil - for Sarah, the journey through grief was impossible to convey without bold formal experimentation. She spent two years creating these comics. The result is Something, Not Nothing, an extraordinary book that delicately articulates the vagaries of grief and the sweet remembrances of enduring love. Moving and impressionistic, Something, Not Nothing shows that alongside grief, there is room for peace, joy, and new beginnings.
$27.95
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Tamara Schmitz Standing On My Own Two Feet: A Child's Affirmation of Love in the Midst of Divorce
Addison is a regular kid whose parents are going through a divorce, but he knows that no matter what happens, his parents will always love him. The text in this beautifully illustrated picture book is inspiring, gentle, and uplifting, and teaches kids that having two homes to live in can be just as great as having two strong feet to stand on. Ages 3-7
$24.99
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T. J. Wray Surviving The Death Of A Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies
Based on the author's own experiences, as well as those of many others, Surviving the Death of a Sibling helps adults who have lost a brother or sister to realize that they are not alone in their struggle. Just as important, it teaches them to understand the unique stages of their grieving process, offering practical and prescriptive advice for dealing with each stage.
$23.00
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Alan Wolfelt Sympathy & Condolences: What to Say and Write to Convey Your Support After a Loss
When someone you care about has suffered the death of a loved one or another significant loss, you want to let them know you care. But it can be hard to know what to say to them or to write in a sympathy note. This handy book offers tips for how to talk or write to a grieving person to convey your genuine concern and support. What to say, what not to say, sympathy card etiquette, how to keep in touch, and more are covered in this concise guide written by one of the world’s most beloved grief counselors. You’ll turn to this book again and again, not only after a death but during times of divorce or break-ups, serious illness, loss of a pet, job change or loss, traumatic life events, major life transitions that are both happy and sad, and more.
$13.50
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Anne Chadwick Talking About Death and Bereavement in School: How to Help Children Aged 4 to 11 to Feel Supported and Understood
Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them. It is important that school teachers and staff know how to respond to bereavement and how they can best help the child. This short, easy to read book offers simple but important advice and guidance for school teachers and staff on what to do when a child is grieving. It includes advice on explaining death to children, insights into how children may be feeling and how they may react, and ways in which they can be supported.
$39.95
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Kathy Kortes-Miller Talking About Death Won't Kill You
The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying. Talking About Death Won't Kill You helps Canadians navigate personal and medical decisions for the best quality of life for the end of our lives. Noted palliative-care educator and researcher Kathy Kortes-Miller shows readers how to identify and reframe limiting beliefs about dying with humor and compassion. With robust resource lists, Kortes-Miller addresses advance care plans; how to have conversations about end-of-life wishes with loved ones; how to talk to children about death; how to build a compassionate workplace; practical strategies to support our colleagues; how to talk to health-care practitioners; how to manage challenging family dynamics as someone is dying; and what is involved in medical assistance in dying (MAID).
$19.95
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Talking, Feeling, and Doing Grief Card Game
Grief Card Game for ages 6-12. This card game addresses grief and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide both nurturance and guidance. This card game can be played with the Talking, Feeling & Doing Board Game or as a stand-alone game. In much the same way as the board game, the cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds. For 2-4 players.
$39.95
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Anne Black & Penelope Simpson The Art of Healing Childhood Grief: A School-Based Expressive Arts Program Promoting Social and Emotional Literacy
Drawing on a rich heritage of psychological, educational, primary prevention and creative traditions, Black and Simpson have designed and implemented an innovative, school-based support program to usher in a new approach to childhood grief. Now in its fourth edition, this labor of love is filled with hundreds of expressive arts activities and a sequential curriculum organized in an easy to access format for professionals and lay facilitators to reference when working with an individual child, a small group of children or an entire school. Included in this manual is a chapter on responding to the needs of children children in the aftermath of death crises such as suicide, homicide, terrorist attacks and war.
$72.95
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Patricia Morrissey The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book: Activities to Help Children and Teens Heal
Based on Alan Wolfelt's six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion questions, and arts and crafts, caregivers can help grieving young people acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss, remember the person who died, develop a new self-identity, search for meaning, and accept support. Sample activities include grief sock puppets, expression bead bracelets, the nurturing game, and writing an autobiographical poem. Activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and each has a goal, an objective, a sequential description of the activity, and a list of needed materials.
$44.95
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Julia Cook, Phillip W. Rodgers The D Word (Divorce)
Otis used to have the "perfect" family. That all changed when his parents told him that they were getting a D... D... D... The "D" Word - he can't even say it! At first Otis blames himself. With the help of his Gram, Otis discovers the reasons why people get divorced. This book offers both children and adults the tools and insights that are needed to effectively deal with the difficult challenges that a family goes through when parents get divorced.
$15.95
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Alan Wolfelt The Depression of Grief: Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help
Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes that grieving people do not necessarily need to be diagnosed with depression following the death of a loved one and guides them through exercises to express their depression in healthy ways. In a society where mourning and melancholia are often ignored, this book gives mourners the supported and reassurance necessary to understand and appreciate that their depression is a regular part of the grieving process.
$20.95
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Todd Parr The 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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Ngaio Parr The 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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Mary-Frances O'Connor The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body. Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and sorrow, we often overlook its impact on our physical bodies. Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor specializes in the study of grief, and in The Grieving Body she shares vital scientific research, revealing imperative new insights on its profound physiological impact. As she did in The Grieving Brain, O’Connor combines illuminating studies and personal stories to explore the toll loss takes on our cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems and the larger implications for our long-term well-being. The Grieving Body addresses questions about how bereavement affects us, such as: Can we die of a broken heart? What happens in our bodies when we’re grieving? How do our coping behaviors affect our physical health? What is the cognitive impact of grief? Why are we more prone to illness during times of enormous stress? and more Research-backed, warm, and empathetic, The Grieving Body is an essential, hopeful read for those experiencing loss as well as their supportive friends and family. The Grieving Body is illustrated with black-and-white charts and graphs.
$37.00
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