Surviving Grief

After the loss of a loved one, grief can become overwhelming and one of the most devastating experiences you can face in life. The death and subsequent aftermath are life changing. Author Gary Sturgis knows first-hand that grief is an everyday experience and dealing with the pain and sorrow on a daily basis can be a daunting task. In SURVIVING GRIEF: 365 Days a Year, Gary offers you reassuring guidance and comforting advice as you travel through your personal grief journey. He provides a daily reflection for each day of the calendar year. Reading just one page a day will help you find hope ...

Far from a clinical self-help book, Surviving: Finding Hope After Suicide Loss not only invites listeners into the intimate and poignant reality of suicide loss but offers tangible tools from Sugarman’s comprehensive 18-category mental health resources directory, The HelpHUB™.

Best-selling author, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe uses his three decades of experience interacting with grieving parents to give us this heartfelt and intensely practical book. In Shattered, Roe walks the listener through the powerful impact a child's death can have - emotionally, mentally, physically, relationally, and spiritually.

Losing a pet is like losing a piece of your heart. The emptiness hits hard, and every memory brings a bittersweet ache. How do you heal when love and loss are so tightly woven together? You've lost a confidante who understood you without words and a soulmate whose presence brought endless comfort. You feel lost and alone. You need a special pet loss grief book...one dedicated to accompanying you on your grieving journey...and you've just found it. Guided by a compassionate author who has loved and lost many animals, Surviving Pet Death will help you find solace along your journey and ...

A humorous and heartfelt memoir about weathering the loss of a parent, with advice and grief survival tips mixed in throughout “The perfect 'how to' book for the unimaginable.” —Casey Wilson, coauthor of The Art of Small Talk Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead...

"A gripping memoir detailing betrayal, trauma, prostitution, grief, drug addiction, imprisonment, the breaking force of love, detox, and much more..." — IndieReader Reviews "Julie D. Summer's Off My Knees is a compelling memoir about overcoming abuse, addiction, and time in prison...(it) is about a confident personal reinvention." — Carolina Ciucci, Foreword Reviews How much trauma can one person survive and still, in the end, thrive? Julie D. Summer's debut memoir takes readers on a ride through incredible highs and the depths of hell, then rams back up to a conclusion of success. Hers...

August 1918. Everybody likes twelve-year-old Josie Winslow. While she helps in the family drug store and plans for the first day of school, her pharmacist father is puzzled by newspaper articles about influenza arriving in New York on ships from Europe. It is still summer. Flu is a winter disease. Billy Detwiler has been kicked out of prep school. No one, not even Billy, is happy he will be in Josie’s school let alone her eighth-grade class. He is a bully of the first order and is looking for his next victim. He calls Josie “Pharmacy Girl,” but it is no compliment. By mid-October, ...

Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths that author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful young physician, took his own life in December 1989. And being unable to speak openly and honestly about the cause of her pain made it all the more difficult for her to survive.

They said it was over — or simply left — and the ground vanished in an afternoon. If you never saw it coming, this is the book for you. Being blindsided by divorce is its own particular kind of pain. You didn’t just lose your marriage — you lost your grip on reality itself. You keep asking how you missed it, whether any of it was real, and how your spouse could walk away like this. And on top of the shock, people imply you should have seen it coming. Let’s be clear from the first page: this book will never tell you that. Your shock is real and valid, and trusting your own marriage...

Dealing With Grief After Loss of Husband. A Practical Guide to Coping With Loneliness, Overwhelming Emotions, Daily Life, and the Pain of Losing Your Husband—Without Rushing Your Grief You don't have to move on from him. You can learn to move forward with the love, memories, and life you shared. Who this Dealing With Grief After Loss of Husband book is for This Dealing With Grief After Loss of Husband book is for the woman who has lost her husband and is drowning in advice that doesn't actually help — "give it time," "he's in a better place," "you need to move on." She doesn't need ...

While grief is a normal, healthy response to losing a beloved pet, it is important to work through its various stages and eventually find a way to move forward. Understanding the depth of your bond and learning to celebrate rather than mourn your years together helps memorialize your pet. It also equips you with perspective and the capacity to love again. This book is your compassionate and comforting guide throughout the healing process—an understanding companion as you explore the depths of your grief. The journey to peace and recovery starts here.

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period...

Grief. No matter how strong we are, no one is truly prepared for it. When we least expect it, grief rips the floor out from under us. There is truly no greater catastrophe in life, and yet it is something nearly all of us will go through. It is our own personal war that will eventually take everyone we know and love. While grief may seem like an unthinkable tragedy that no one can relate to, many have gone down this path before us. Our ancestors found great wisdom in grief. Ancient cultures and tribes from around the world have found comfort in the unimaginable, peace in the chaos, and ...

She was everything. Now what? Losing your wife doesn't just break your heart — it breaks your entire world. Your identity. Your routine. Your reason for coming home. And nobody around you seems to know what to say, how long it's supposed to take, or what a grieving man is actually supposed to do with the weight he's carrying. When She's Gone is the book written specifically for you. Not grief in the abstract. Not clinical stages and therapy-speak. This is a man-to-man guide to surviving the most devastating loss of your life — and eventually, finding your way back to something worth ...

When T. J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted. After all, when an adult sibling dies, he or she often leaves behind parents, a spouse, and even children - all of whom suffer a more socially recognized type of loss.

You've lost someone you love. Your heart is broken. Now you're facing a holiday or special occasion. What are you going to do? How do you handle this? Best-selling author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe has given you a grief survival kit designed for the holidays. Speaking from both personal and professional grief experiences, he will empower you to navigate special days and seasons with new confidence.

“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others—from the “expected” death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or...

An invisible epidemic is quietly tearing modern families apart. The ache of estrangement affects people of all parenting styles, faiths, and politics. According to a 2025 Harris Poll, half of US adults are estranged from at least one close relation,. When her adult daughter “cancels” her, author Gia Sorrenti is shocked and devastated. It’s been more than five years since I last heard my daughter’s voice. My worst fear as a mother has come true. My child is dead. Except she isn’t. In this gripping exploration of love, accountability, and trauma, Sorrenti examines the invisible ...

Life doesn’t come with instructions, but it’s in these difficult moments of our lives where we truly find ourselves. This is an inspiring book based on true events, taking you on an emotional journey through the life of Merica Erato. Merica walks the reader through the heartfelt, intensely powerful impact of her life’s journey from losing a child to enduring prison, a souring marriage, and facing a new life beyond bars. The road to healing is never how we imagine it to be.

You prepared for the funeral. Nobody prepared you for the feelings. The grief books on the shelf talk about love and loss as if they were simple. But losing your father is rarely simple. Maybe you were his caregiver. Maybe you were his favorite. Maybe the relationship was complicated, and now the feelings are too: sorrow next to relief, love next to anger, and a guilt that whispers you are grieving wrong. After He's Gone is a warm, honest companion for the daughter navigating all of it. No stages to perform, no timeline to follow. Just steady guidance through what actually happens. Inside ...