What If You Had Just One More Chance To Talk To Your Love Ones? What Would You Say? A Year's Journey Through Grief
What If You Had Just One More Chance To Talk To Your Love Ones? What Would You Say? A Year's Journey Through Grief

Author: Tim Pinsonneault

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1640792015

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What if you had just one more chance to talk to your loved ones? What would you say? A Year's Journey Through Grief was written because having been around death for more than half his life-first being on his local ambulance service, later working for a local funeral home, seeing both ends of death, seeing the distress on the families faces especially when it was unexpected, never getting to say their final good-bys-can be and are devastating. So many things go unsaid because we as humans think there is always tomorrow. But for some, tomorrow never comes. This book is designed to tell your loved ones everything you want. When you read the stages of grief, you will realize that there are a lot of feelings that quickly become overwhelming. By reading the scriptures, inspirational sayings, and poems, you will come to realize just how much God loves you. He loves you more than you could ever know. By writing down your thoughts, cares, concerns, prayers, and dreams, you will start your healing process. This is a work in progress; no need in trying to rush it, for there will be times when emotions will run high. Whether it be a song on the radio or birds chirping or even seeing a newborn, take each day as a new. A new day to remember your love. A new day to remember your hopes. A new day to cherish your dreams. A new day to love and cherish your family and friends. A new day to Thank God for placing your loved one in your life.

Second Firsts
Second Firsts

Author: Christina Rasmussen

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1401940838

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Presents a guide for dealing with grief and loss, detailing five steps of healing that can lead to a lifestyle alignment with personal values and new possibilities for a re-engaged life. --Publisher's description.

Continuing Bonds
Continuing Bonds

Author: Dennis Klass

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1317763602

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First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.

Zenspirations
Zenspirations

Author: Joanne Fink

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1607651173

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Patterning is fun, easy and relaxing. It is a great way to add interest and texture to any design. Whether you like to journal, draw, doodle, design, or craft, you'll find a world of inspiration here. These decorative borders, frames, shapes, and alphabets will appeal to a spectrum of tastes and styles.

Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload
Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload

Author: Alan Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1617222887

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Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.

When Your Friend Dies
When Your Friend Dies

Author: Harold Ivan Smith

Publisher: Augsburg Books

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781451409512

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Many of us will grieve the death of a friend. Yet, this particular kind of grief is not recognized as often as that experienced when a spouse, child, or parent dies. Grief counselor and speaker Harold Ivan Smith has worked with "friend grief" both professionally and personally. In this short volume, he offers comfort and encouragement to those who have lost a friend by validating their grief, urging them to give their grief a voice, and remembering their friend.

Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief
Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief

Author: Ryane E. Englar

Publisher: 5m Books Ltd

Published: 2023-11-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1789182638

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Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief provides practitioners and students alike with tools to better understand grief and its impact on the human-animal bond. Veterinary team members will also learn how to navigate their own mix of emotions as they themselves experience and process recurrent grief that can contribute to compassion fatigue and burnout. (5m Books)

How to Fix a Broken Heart
How to Fix a Broken Heart

Author: Guy Winch

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1501120131

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Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing else. We feel nothing else. We care about nothing else. Yet while we wouldn’t expect someone to return to daily activities immediately after suffering a broken limb, heartbroken people are expected to function normally in their lives, despite the emotional pain they feel. Now psychologist Guy Winch imagines how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotion—if only we can understand how heartbreak works, we can begin to fix it. Through compelling research and new scientific studies, Winch reveals how and why heartbreak impacts our brain and our behavior in dramatic and unexpected ways, regardless of our age. Emotional pain lowers our ability to reason, to think creatively, to problem solve, and to function at our best. In How to Fix a Broken Heart he focuses on two types of emotional pain—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet. These experiences are both accompanied by severe grief responses, yet they are not deemed as important as, for example, a formal divorce or the loss of a close relative. As a result, we are often deprived of the recognition, support, and compassion afforded to those whose heartbreak is considered more significant. Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.

Finding Joy in the Journey
Finding Joy in the Journey

Author: Vickie Tingwald

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-07-12

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1662432399

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In every life and family, there is a story waiting to be told. In this book, our family would like to share with you one of our greatest discoveries. In our darkest hour of suffering, we found joy in the journey. We have learned many hard lessons and still have unanswered questions, but through it all, God was with us every step of the way. Each of us faced different giants to battle, but we can all say, we are stronger, more determined, and have a greater eternal perspective than ever before. On our worst days, we were not without hope and found true joy in knowing we were never alone. The one who fights our battles was right beside us all the way! Our prayer is that as you read this book, you will realize that you are never alone. We can know the same joy that Paul knew, a joy that while in prison, he could rejoice and praise God. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God” (2 Corinthians 1:3–4 NIV).

The First Snow
The First Snow

Author: Bob Ellison

Publisher: WestBowPress

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1490824219

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Have you ever wondered what a man thinks and what he feels—truly feels—when he is in the process of losing his wife to cancer and is her caregiver? Have you wondered how he feels after he loses his wife to cancer? Nothing prepares him for the overwhelming feelings of loss, of being alone, of anger at God until that very moment is upon him. Yes, there are clinical descriptions of what to expect at the loss of a spouse, such as: You may have feelings of anger, at God or at your spouse for leaving you, feelings of loneliness, abandonment, guilt or despair. These feelings are normal. Is that all? Yet there were no articles or descriptions of the depth of those emotions, the utter desolation of being alone after watching a spouse breathe her last breath, and how painful the loss really can be when it all sinks in, because men are supposed to suck it up, to be strong and move on. This journal describes everything from the mundane day-to-day incidents, concerns, hopes, victories, doubts, and frustrations of being the primary caregiver for a dying wife, to the interactions between the author and his sons—his wife’s two sons that he adopted and his oldest son from a previous marriage. It also describes the utter desolation he felt and ultimately lived through after his wife of twenty-eight years took her last breath on the morning following winter’s first snow of 2010 with only him at her side.