Coping with / advice about death and bereavement

Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss.

Laraine Burrell gets the call to come back to England from the United States just in time to visit briefly with her father before he passes away.

Have you loved and lost before, yet struggled with how to recover and move forward?

Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan.

A three-week adventure becomes a tragic dilemma for a loving sister, a motherless child, and a terrified father facing unimaginable loss together and using their relationships with one another to survive.

Two weeks before his college graduation, Kelley Clink's younger brother died by suicide.

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty.

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining qualityand no one would have blamed her for it.

Where Have I Been All My Life?

Indie Reader Discovery Awards Winner for Parenting National Indie Excellence Award Finalist Hollywood Book Festival 2016 Honorable mention in general non-fiction Bookvana 2016 Finalist in Parenting/Family Bronze Medal Winner Inspirational Memoir-Female Living Now Book Awards-Books for Better Living When LeeAndra Chergey is told that her son, Ryan, is no longer considered ';normal,' she and her family are forced into a new way of handling the outside world.

A decade after twelve-year-old Jessica loses her mother, Dianne, to cancer complications, she finds herself curious about Dianne's mysterious youth.

Lifeand deathmay be hard; but joy is simple.

Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado.

A birch tree grows tall and arabesque in the front yard of Nancy Chadwick's childhood home.

';An amazingly moving and emotional story that any womanor any parentcan easily relate to.

When She Discovered That She Could Communicate with Her Dead Brother, a World She Never Imagined Opened Up.

This compelling memoir of one woman's journey of enchantment, tragedy and romance unfolds against the backdrop of a stunning mountaintop in rural Virginia.

When Miriam Weinstein's good friend died unexpectedly, and other losses followed close behind, it led to a year of introspection and black outfits.

A Palliative Care Book of the Month: IAHPC (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care) From a medical insider comes a plea to renew medicine's mandate to relieve suffering.

2015-2016 Sarton Story Circle: Memoir Winner2016-2017 Readers Views Award: Memoir/Autobiography/Biography Winner, West Pacific Regional Winner2017 Independent Press Award: Relationships Winner2017 Northern California Publishers and Authors Second Place in Book Cover2017 Northern California Publishers and Authors Second Place in Memoir2017 Readers' Favorite Book Award Bronze Winner2017 International Book Awards: Autobiography/Memoir Finalist2016 National Indie Excellence Awards: Memoir FinalistEveryone has or had a mother.

Carrie Highley was always a tomboyand by the time she turned sixteen, she was wishing she were dancing with the girls instead of the boys at cotillion dances.

Where are they now, the lost, the forgotten?

In China, girls are bad luck and are often drowned.

“If you have suffered great tragedy and struggle to connect with God in your grief and disappointment, When Tragedy Strikes was written for you” (Wayne Jacobsen, author of He Loves Me!

A woman's true story of rebuilding her faith in the aftermath of harrowing tragedy.

Framed by the author's personal odyssey as a caregiver and richly informed by the inspiring and poignant tales of others, Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.

Hey, God?

Making sensible decisions during a time of grief is never easy.

At some point in everyones life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one.

Hailed as a wondrous book by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literaturea journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul.

Diversity in Action: A Manual for Diversity Professionals in Law is designed as a resource and educational tool for those performing diversity roles in law firms and corporate legal departments.

Grief Healing Techniques Helps You Recover in Your Own Way, at Your Own Pace After losing a loved one, grief can be overwhelming and seem impossible to conquer.

Bury the Dead is a collection of personal encounters with death: stories of Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, hospice, suicide, murder, systemic violence, genocide, and war.

When it is our time, is there any one of us who would not hope for a gentle ending to our lives and a peaceful death?

A New York Times Bestseller!

It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students.

Challenging the firmly held belief that we must brave our circumstances and endure lifes crises, You Dont Have to Suffer emphasizes that while hurt is inevitable in life, suffering is not.

The author explores her mother's marriage-and fourteen pregnancies-in this "e;powerful memoir"e; (Ebony).

The author of I’m Sorry for Your Loss presents a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are struggling to move forward in their grief.

A yoga teacher, punk rock bassist, and Buddhist teaches from experience on how approaching death and grief with a little more compassion and a little less fear will make for a better lifeand a better death, too.

If you love, you will grieveand nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human.

A daily companion for embracing life, preparing for death, and awakening to reality.

This book isn't about dying.

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying.

No Time for Tears is a new kind of guide, rich with information and real-life stories, to help not only people struggling through grief due to the loss of a loved one but also those who counsel them.

Losing a loved one is perhaps the most painful and overwhelming of life's experiences.

Questions, suggestions, and prompts for immortalizing the memories of a loved one who has passed on.