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"Aware their grandmother is gravely ill, four siblings make a pact to keep death from taking her away. But Death does arrive all the same, as it must. He comes gently, naturally. And he comes with enough time to share a story with the children that helps them to realize the value of loss to life and the importance of being able to say goodbye."--from amazon.com
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Drawing on her knowledge as an MFT Psychotherapist with a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, her work as a certified Yoga Teacher, and the loss of a beloved daughter to SIDS, Lily Dulan created The Name Work, a concrete method to help people find a way to embrace and move through grief, suffering, and life obstacles of all kinds.
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The Heavy Bag by Sarah Surgey is a children' s book that looks at the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Sadness and Acceptance. Children can experience grief for a loved one; a pet; or even moving on from a school or area. When all of the emotions build up inside a child' s mind, they can feel like they are carrying around a huge weight with them.‘ The Heavy Bag' follows a little girl called Enid who has...
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Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
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"The Singularity is the English-language debut from a Swedish writer of Kurdish descent. This formally innovative novel explores motherhood, grief, and displacement through the intertwining stories of two women: the mother of a refugee family who throws herself into the sea after her daughter goes missing, and a woman who witnesses her suicide and later gives birth to a stillborn baby"--
6) Plot Twist
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In life, the one thing we can be certain of is that it will never remain linear for long. One minute, everything is as we know it. Next minute - PLOT TWIST - we find ourselves scrambling for a foothold, trying to make sense of the shifting landscape and the changing tides. Sometimes, these deviations from the course can be the shift we needed to push us into our next chapter of life. Others can throw us off balance, send us spiralling into despair...
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Muchas de las personas que hemos tenido que enfrentar una pérdida de salud, nos hacemos esta pregunta: ¿Por qué a mí? En diversas ocasiones la respuesta más exacta puede ser la más triste y lastimera, y es que simplemente no hay una contestación a lo ocurrido, por lo cual uno debe de emprender un laborioso recorrido que le permita llegar hasta la aceptación.¿Por qué a mí? es un libro deja ver que, aunque no exista una respuesta, sí hay...
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"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief and reach for redemption."
-Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son
Perfect for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Anne Tyler, Someone You Love Is Gone is a beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets and ghosts that haunt a family.
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In 1954, Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia's gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women's rights and downtrodden miners, but soon feels confined by the expectations of society. Fueled by vengeance and seduced by the sirens of illegal adventure, Sunni masterminds a stunning heist that echoes through the underworld and leaves a trail...
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May is a carefree girl who likes nothing better than singing along to the Spice Girls, roller blading and eating cheese on toast with her friends. But then May's family moves to a new town and May's world is turned upside down.
Out of the blue, an imaginary friend Anna comes along to help May out of her predicament, but Anna's 'solutions' only isolate May from her family and lead her into unhealthy habits.
Author Maddy Tyers knows only too well...
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The death of a spouse may not kill us, too, but it will certainly feel that way. Grappling with loss is never easy. Grieving in isolation (and through a global pandemic) may be the hardest thing you'll ever do.This book is a message from one survivor to another. You are not alone on this lonely path. Discover how I learned to cope-- and hopefully you will, too. How I am muddling through and discovering a new me from the empty shell that was left behind--...
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Put The Past Behind And Forge Ahead Take a moment to think about how past mistakes and experiences might be letting you down right now. Let your mind create a better future for you. That would be amazing and life-changing, wouldn't it? This opportunity would be either of the following:Let yourself feel good about yourself again.Improve your self-esteem.Instead, adopt a 'What is' approach and focus on the present and what you can change.Make a fresh...
14) Grieving The Loss Of Your Baby: Coping With The Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Chil
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Grieving The Loss Of Your BabyCoping With Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Child Through Miscarriage, Still Birth When the joy of your child's birth shockingly escalates into the grief of miscarriage or stillbirth, perhaps early infant death, there are not enough words that can soothe the pain and loss.You feel sad, shocked, and devastated?But there is still hope for the future and with God's comfort.Grieving the loss of your baby is never...
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The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
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Widowed at 40 and left to raise her four-year-old twin sons alone, the author is thrust into confronting an unexpected and traumatic reality. With heart, hope, and a focus on healing, she shares, through 12 lessons, how she successfully navigated the highs and lows of her grief journey to raise her sons as a single mother. With heartfelt emotion and a unique ability to capture the intricacies of life's moments, Franka's insights about the grief journey...
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Grief is a natural response to loss. It might be the loss of a loved one, relationship, pregnancy, pet, job, or way of life. Other experiences of loss may be due to children leaving home, infertility, and separation from friends and family. The more significant the loss, the more intense the grief is likely to be.Grief is expressed in many ways. It can affect every part of your life; your emotions, thoughts and behavior, beliefs, physical health,...
18) Hypnosis for Grief and Loss: A Comprehensive Guide to Coping With Loss, Grief Feeling, Pains and Fin
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Shock, pain, suffering and sorrow. Such life events will stop us in our tracks. Unfortunately life is over and we are overcome by feelings such as rage, sorrow, disappointment and heartbreak. It's all right!... That you're not all right! Have you ever felt humiliated or confused by a society that seeks to "resolve" grief?Grief needs a cure that is NO more than LOVE needs a cure. Instead, we will understand that there is absolutely no "right way" to...
19) Forgery
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The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore's Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a...
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Death is an important part of life, and yet it is one of the hardest things to talk about--for adults as well as children. Historian and museum curator Sarah Chavez is determined to create a book that sparks wonder and curiosity about dying, instead of fear and shame. In this informative book, illustrated by Annika Le Large, children will marvel at the flowers different cultures use to represent death. They will find out about eco-friendly burials,...
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