The Gifts of Grief

The Gifts of Grief

Author: Therese Tappouni

Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1938289137

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At some point in our lives, we all experience grief:The death of a loved one, a financial catastrophe, a debilitating illness, or the ending of a marriage. In the dark moments that follow these losses, life can seem hopeless and unbearable. Author Therèse Tappouni knows this journey all too well. After suffering the devastating loss of her eleven-year-old son, she ultimately came to the realization that it is possible to not only heal from grief, but to find gifts from the deepest places of despair. The Gifts of Grief: Finding the Light in the Darkness of Loss explores the grieving process and examines new ways to heal from the inside out. Couched in Tappouni’s warm and comforting prose, and steeped in examples from her own experiences with deep loss, Therèse is able to walk the reader through the grieving process, while keeping in mind that the journey will be different for every person. Complete with guided audio mediations and journaling exercises, The Gifts of Grief offers a compassionate path from loss and emptiness into wholeness, teaching not only how to survive grief, but also adapt and evolve new blessings from it as well.


A New Mourning

A New Mourning

Author: Georgena Eggleston

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781504330305

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Would you try to change a flat tire with your bare hands? Of course not. You would access the tool kit in the trunk of your car. So when grief flattens you, why not reach for a tool kit? Grief does not have to be constant. Although that may be how you feel in this moment, discover four unique, simple tools in this book to move beyond your grief: - practical self-care strategies - listening touch - discovery and curiosity - object permanence Without dishonoring the person, pet, or object that is no longer present in your life, discover how you can be transformed beyond your grief. The intention of this book is to expand your awareness so you can reinvent yourself to live fully. You become empowered when your body, mind, emotions, and spirit work together in synergy. Receive permission, assurance, and practical guidance to discover where grief lives in your body, how to release it and replace the thoughts that keep you stuck in the grief loop. With new awareness, discover how curiosity and self-care can be lifelines to radiant living.


The Gift of Grief

The Gift of Grief

Author: Ajita Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735392509

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The Gift of Grief is for those who are navigating a loss and are wanting to understand grief and how to heal from a variety of losses. The book helps the reader understand grief, death, and dying and other everyday life events that can cause us to grieve.None of us are exempt. Grief is a universal experience, but our healing, our grief journey is unique to each of us. This book helps you understand the grief process and addresses the different myths that can impact your grief journey. This book serves as a guide for those who want to understand the different types of loss, how they impact our grieving, and creating a life post-loss. A discussion of symbolic and physical losses to help grievers understand how non-death related factors can trigger a grief response. A psychoeducational discussion is presented with tips on how to talk to children and teens about death and dying and how grief manifests differently in children. Lastly, an exploration of how social media can impact our grief and how our mourning rituals can honor our loved ones. Grief and bereavement can be a difficult journey, filled with a variety of emotions and experiences. This book provides a foundational understanding of your own grief experiences and a foundation for working with grieving individuals. That Gift of Grief was created after twelve years as a grief and trauma therapist and bearing witness to clients finding the gift and renewed purpose amid suffering. The book also includes a variety of resources such as journal prompts, worksheets, reflective exercises, and a course companion to help you navigate grief and healing. We intend to offer information about the grief process and practical tips on coping, restoring, and renewing oneself in the aftermath of grief.


The Gifts from Losing You

The Gifts from Losing You

Author: Sara Green

Publisher: Sara Green

Published: 2021-01-31

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781736241318

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The Gifts from Losing You is a poignant chronicle that shares a family's experience of their first year grieving the sudden loss of their only son and brother, aged 19. Written by his mother, it is a story of personal tragedy, immeasurable love, heartbreak, and sadness, coupled with gratitude, courage, and perseverance. Her reflections explore the themes of loss, shock, pain, acceptance, and eternal love. She focuses on how her family found a way to weave their grief into the fabric of their lives while opening their hearts and minds to the gifts bestow on them. She discovers that deep despair and blessing can co-exist simultaneously in grief. This unique perspective has guided them in their healing, enabling them to live alongside their heartache. From her experience as a health coach, she shares the self-care practices that enabled her to cope with her devastating reality. For anyone suffering the loss of a child or a loved one, this part memoir, part self-help book provides hope and inspiration, with insights to help you navigate your path out of the dark, toward the light.


I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

Author: Jeremy Jackson

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 157131332X

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A coming-of-age story chronicles the author's life at eleven years old in rural Missouri, a year in which he fell in love for the first time, his sister left for college, and his grandmother died.


Mindfulness and Grief

Mindfulness and Grief

Author: Heather Stang

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 178249782X

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Without proper support, navigating the icy waters of grief may feel impossible. The grieving person may feel spiritually bankrupt and often the loss is so painful that the bereaved may lose faith in what they once held dear. Mindfulness meditation can restore hope by offering a compassionate safe haven for healing and self-reflection. While nobody can predict the path of someone else's grief, this book will guide the reader forward through the grieving process with simple mindfulness-based exercises to restore mind, body and spirit. These easy-to-follow meditations will help the reader to cope with the pain of loss, and embark on a healing journey. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of grief, and the guided meditations will calm the mind and increase clarity and focus. Mindfulness and Grief will help readers to begin the process of reconstructing the shattered self that is left in the wake of any major loss.


Getting Through Grief

Getting Through Grief

Author: Michael W. Newman

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780758667120

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"All Christians experience heartbreak, hurt, and grief. Saddened by loss, we sometimes feel paralyzed and uncertain of how to move forward. This booklet is for people left with the gaping wound of grief, those dangling helplessly in sadness, wanting to move forward but lacking the resources to do so. The author reveals eight gifts of God for people wandering in the wilderness of anguish-presence, conversation, faith, hope, love, forgiveness, community, and purpose. He offers practical blessings from the Savior that bring freedom from crushing captivity and provide footholds out of the pit of despair"--


Seaweed and Shamans

Seaweed and Shamans

Author: Brenda Paik Sunoo

Publisher: Seaweed and Shamans

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9788991913035

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Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. Memoir. "Heartfelt and at times heart-rending, SEAWEED AND SHAMANS details Brenda Paik Sunoo's journey through grief into solace. Written with courage and generosity, her collection of essays traverses personal memory and Korean-American history, as well as the thoughts and drawings garnered from diary entries of the child she lost. A testimony to the endurance of faith and art, life and love. SEAWEED AND SHAMANS is a gift of healing"--Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman and Fox Girl.


The Art of Losing

The Art of Losing

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-05-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1620404842

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“Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.” -Billy Collins The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.


The Gifts of Grief

The Gifts of Grief

Author: Tappouni, Therese

Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1938289099

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At some point in our lives, we all experience grief: The death of a loved one, a financial catastrophe, a debilitating illness, or the ending of a marriage. In the dark moments that follow these losses, life can seem hopeless and unbearable. Author Therèse Tappouni knows this journey all too well. After suffering the devastating loss of her eleven-year-old son, she ultimately came to the realization that it is possible to not only heal from grief, but to find gifts from the deepest places of despair. The Gifts of Grief: Finding the Light in the Darkness of Loss explores the grieving process and examines new ways to heal from the inside out. Couched in Tappouni’s warm and comforting prose, and steeped in examples from her own experiences with deep loss, Therèse is able to walk the reader through the grieving process, while keeping in mind that the journey will be different for every person. Complete with guided audio mediations and journaling exercises, The Gifts of Grief offers a compassionate path from loss and emptiness into wholeness, teaching not only how to survive grief, but also adapt and evolve new blessings from it as well.