Healing Grief

Grieving your pet feels overwhelming—here’s how to find comfort, honor their memory, and heal at your own pace. Losing a pet is one of the deepest heartaches a person can experience. One moment, they were your best friend, your companion, your source of unconditional love. The next, they’re gone—leaving behind a void that feels impossible to fill.

After the loss of a loved one, once the services are over and the relatives and friends have gone home, we are left to enter a strange new land, where someone who has given meaning to our life is gone. Drawing on her own experience as well as that of others, author Martha Whitmore Hickman presents a year's worth of meditations for people dealing with this profound loss, offering solace and illuminating a way forward. From January 1 to December 31, each day's meditation considers a meaningful quotation or passage on grief or suffering....

Healing After the Loss of Your Mother is a heartfelt and practical guidebook for those mourning the loss of their mother and for supporters hoping to help a loved one through the grief. Like a compassionate friend, author Elaine Mallon captures the raw, unique pain of losing your mother with empathy, honesty, and eloquence. She tenderly walks the listener through each step of the grieving process, offering straightforward answers to many common questions and addressing fears faced by those grieving, as well.

Do you want to learn how to change your mindset to victory instead of defeat? Do you long to reprogram your mind to reach new levels of achievement and purpose despite our current times? Do you want to live fearless, knowing that your dreams and vision will be reality and you will reach your assigned destiny? In Trauma - Pain - Body - Grief & Healing, author Sandra Jackson reveals a daily life-changing strategy for taking control of your thoughts to live a victorious life. Sandra Jackson offers a practical guide filled with key verses, instructions, challenges, questions, and answers to ...

"I'm not picking up a heartbeat." These are the most dreaded words an expectant mother can hear. As joy and anticipation dissolve into confusion and grief, painful questions refuse to go away: Why me? Did I do something wrong? How will this affect my ability to have a family? What do I say to my children without scaring them? With the warmth and compassion of a Licensed Professional Counselor and writing as a mother who has suffered the loss of a baby and a 16-year-old son, Pam Vredevelt offers sound answers and advice.

Beyond Grief: Lessons in Love, Healing, and Growth is a companion for anyone navigating loss. Through personal stories, soul reflections, and gentle healing practices, this book offers guidance back to yourself. More than grief, it's about transformation-remembering love, choosing growth, and finding light even in the darkest moments.

It’s time to move beyond the politics of abortion. It's time to listen to the needs of those who are struggling with trauma, depression, grief, pain or other problems after abortion. It's time to break down the social taboos that stifle discussion of abortion-related feelings. Forbidden Grief is a haunting review of Dr. Theresa Burke’s experience in counseling hundreds of women for abortion-related emotional problems. She discusses the pressure and coercion faced by many women before abortion, the ordeal of the abortion itself and the obstacles in the way of resolving and healing from ...

This isn’t just grief. This is the silent mourning of a love that was never real—and the sacred journey back to yourself. If you’ve left a narcissist, you’ve probably heard it all: “Just be glad it’s over.” “Why are you still so emotional?” “At least you’re free now.” But deep down, you know what they don’t: You’re not just grieving a breakup—you’re grieving a fantasy. A false self. A betrayal wrapped in affection. A love you gave fully to someone who never really existed. In this groundbreaking and soul-honest guide, Grieving the Narcissist walks you through...

In this raw and luminous debut, Kat Lively shares a story shaped by grief, inspiration, and the art life.

Are you overwhelmed by the pain of losing someone you love? Struggling to make sense of life while drowning in sorrow, regret, or emptiness? Grief can feel all-consuming—disrupting your identity, relationships, and daily functioning. You may feel isolated, misunderstood, or unsure how to keep going. But you don’t have to walk this road alone.

“The kind of book that stays with you.”—KIM KARDASHIAN “A reminder [that] you’re never walking alone.”—JAY SHETTY “Imbued with both spiritual insight and emotional clarity.”—GWYNETH PALTROW The renowned psychic medium and New York Times bestselling author of Signs explains...

We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of "negative" emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it's the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time.

Finding your way through grief: A compassionate guide to healing after lossLosing someone or something meaningful to you is a heart-wrenching experience. In those moments, it can feel as though no one truly understands your pain, and in many ways, that's true—grief is a deeply personal journey unique to each individual. Processing your emotions in the aftermath of a loss has no timeline. It can feel as though you're left totally adrift, with no guidance on where to begin the healing process. So, what can you do to move forward? Opening yourself up to the possibility of healing and taking ...

Helping widows and widowers learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide reveals how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family.

INTRODUCTION Losing a loved one is arguably one of the most difficult and distressing experiences that any of us will ever experience in our lifetime. Yet in our everyday life we talk about death very little, perhaps because we do not experience it very often compared to our ancestors where the life expectancy was lower and where death was a more common occurrence. For us, due to advances in medicine, these losses typically occur much later in life so we have no “framework” to fall back on and feel lost as to how we should react. In spite of the lack of life experience, we have to one ...

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well.

A path from trauma to transformation that doesn’t rely on willpower, but rather on the daily power of the Holy Spirit—from pastor and leadership coach Christopher Cook “Razor-sharp focus . . . a clear-cut path to find healing.”—New York Times bestselling author and pastor Mark...

When her 20-year-old son passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, she faced an indescribable loss that changed her life forever. Healing the Broken Heart is not just a recounting of her journey through sorrow, it is a guide for others who are dealing with the heartbreaking loss of a child. It tackles the intense emotional turmoil with courage and honesty, presenting strategies for surviving and eventually healing from such an overwhelming tragedy.

In Tides of Grief, Waves of Grace, Ashley Jo shares her raw and unfiltered memoir of surviving loss, addiction, heartbreak, and scandal and discovering the power of grace. From the outside, Ashley seemed like the picture of resilience: a Christian wife, mother, and executive leading a thriving team. But behind the polished surface, she was reeling from unimaginable pain—the death of her son, the collapse of her marriage, and the unraveling of her identity. When her life spun into a scandal no one expected, she spiraled from living with an alcoholic to becoming one herself.

Sometimes the silent whispers in our heads get so loud we start to believe the noise is real. I have been there, and the whispers almost convinced me that I should not be alive. In that darkness, I took to writing poetry and little positive notes to find light and hope. I had to convince my mind that it gets better. Nothing remains forever, not even the bad days and the sad moments. In this book, I try to make sense of my emotions and navigate the darkness through words. If you find yourself today in the same dark spot, may these poems and little notes give you a reason each day to live, ...