Mourning Loss

A few years ago, Kris Carr’s world was falling apart. Her father was dying, she had to pivot her business because of the pandemic, and she was on the verge of reaching her twenty-year milestone of living with an incurable Stage IV cancer diagnosis. While sitting in a CVS parking lot, she broke down, finally allowing herself to feel the massive stress and sadness she had been suppressing in order to seem strong for those around her, and for herself.

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 ...

How do you navigate life after loss when grief feels unbearable? What makes complex grief so different, and why does it hurt in ways you never expected? How do you find healing when there are unresolved goodbyes, guilt, or unanswered questions? Grief is heavy. It reshapes everything you once knew, leaving behind a weight that feels impossible to carry. It’s Heavy: Finding Peace Beyond the Grave offers a compassionate, therapeutic guide to navigating the most challenging aspects of grief—especially when loss is unexpected, traumatic, or complicated by guilt, strained relationships, or ...

Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn met after the sudden deaths of their mothers only months apart. Their experiences led them to launch a podcast, and their no-holds-barred, relatable approach to talking about grief sparked a growing following of people eager to have honest conversations about what it really feels like to deal with loss. Good Mourning is a compassionate survival guide for anyone dealing with grief—the kind of book Sal and Im wish they'd had to help them through the dark times.

Discover a path to healing after losing your pet, even if it feels overwhelming right now. Have you felt lost in grief after saying goodbye to a beloved furry friend? Does their absence leave you feeling isolated, unsure how to move forward? Are you looking for ways to honor their memory while restoring joy to your life? If so, you're not alone—this book offers comfort and guidance from those who’ve been there.

"Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years.

BEST-SELLING BOOK ON PET LOSS AND GRIEF You wake up to silence, reminding you of the absence of paws padding softly across the floor. The toys remain untouched, collecting dust like the memories of joyful moments spent in each other’s company. Every corner of your home reminds you of the laughter and love shared, yet the void left is unmistakable as if a piece of your heart had been pulled away. Grieving the loss of a pet is a complicated journey that leaves many navigating a sea of emotions. It’s a struggle where sadness can often feel overwhelming, yet it’s also an opportunity to ...

Mourning: The Day After Loss offers practical advice and insight into the process of coping with grief and bereavement based on extensive experience and research. It leads the listener on a journey through the various stages of bereavement - from the death notification to the formal days of mourning, the burial, and the weeks and months following.

Theresa Caputo, TLC’s Long Island Medium and the three-time New York Times best-selling author, teaches us how to ritualize and recover from the daily losses in our lives.

All My Dead Cats is not a book about pet loss. You will meet award-winning journalist and debut author S.E. Smith’s cats and listen to small slices of their stories. Their vignettes serve as an opening to scary conversations about loss, so grief can feel less intimidating and more relatable. This is a book about grief and mourning as collective activities best undertaken in community. S.E. interviews dozens of experts—from death doulas to funeral home directors to therapists and psychologists—and discusses the different stages of grief.

Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For most people, it will be a slower process, one eased with preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, who shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.

In 1980, I produced the film Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. In 1998, I produced What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. On January 3, 2018, my wife and forever love Lauren suddenly passed away in her sleep. She was only 54. Six weeks later, Lauren began to communicate with me…and in October 2018, we started writing this book together. Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents, and many others have experienced communication with loved ones who preceded them beyond the veil ...

"A gift to coaches indeed...Margl applies the Enneagram personality model in helping coaches own and understand our particular biases and how they can affect our work with clients." —Margaret Moore, MBA, aka Coach Meg, Founder/CEO, Wellcoaches Corporation, Founder/Chair, Institute of Coaching Witnessing Grief by Holly Margl is a timely and vital book for coaches and other helping professionals who face conversations with their clients daily that veer into grief, loss, and trauma, particularly now in this pandemic era. Sadly, coaches, counselors, and therapists sometimes say unhelpful or ...

In times of suffering, simple answers often ring empty and hollow - so how can you find hope in hard times? Learn how to survive the difficult seasons with the comfort and of God's constancy. With sensitive, practical advice, Henri Nouwen gently points you toward a life that is grounded in God’s companionship and rooted within eternal hope. In this newly formatted edition, Turn My Mourning into Dancing discusses five movements we experience during hard times.

Hope for Heavy Hearts: A Devotional & Prayer Guide to Help You Grieve, Breathe, and Believe Again Are you looking for a Christian grief devotional that truly understands the weight of loss? Hope for Heavy Hearts is a gentle, faith-filled resource offering daily comfort, breath prayers, and Scripture-based reflections for those walking through grief, sorrow, or emotional overwhelm. Whether you're grieving a loved one, a relationship, a season of life, or something unnamed but deeply felt, this devotional meets you where words often fall short—with compassion, presence, and grace. From the ...

Three romantic rivals in one crowded house equals plenty of room for jealousy in this surprising and heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon...

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.

Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet.

In this memoir–a mix of poetry, prose, and storytelling–Leena Magdi describes a mind altered by grief. Exploring the sudden loss of her brother and the war in Sudan, readers dive headfirst into Leena’s world.

You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. But now that your partner has died, what felt like luck may have turned to wretched despair. How do you go on? How do you live without your champion and other half? The answer is that you mourn as you loved: heroically, grandly, and fully. In this compassionate guide, you’ll find empathetic affirmation and advice intermingled with real-life stories from other halved soulmates. Learn to honor your loved one and your grief even as you find a path to a renewed life of purpose and joy.