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Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo
ID: 123
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
A purpose of this book is to let bereaved parents know that they are not alone in their grief. With factual information and the words and insights of other bereaved parents, you can establish realistic expectations for your grief. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is meant to help you through these difficult experiences by giving you things to think about, providing suggestions for coping and encouraging you to do what you need to survive your baby's death. Whether your baby dies recently or long ago, this information can be useful to you.
Healing the Grieving Heart: A Program of Hope and Renewal For Those who have Lost a Loved One
Scott Preston Horsely
ID: 122
Type: CD
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Death Be not Proud
John Gunther
ID: 121
Type: Booklet
Category: Process of Grieving
Inventory: 1
In Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther explores the process of death: discovery, fighting, living on, and then dying. The process becomes just a little bit easier, as humor, human kindness and courage all are woven in. More than just about dying, this memoir becomes a study of living.
Where's Jess
Joy and Marvin Johnson
ID: 120
Type: Booklet
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
Illustrated by Paris Sieff, age 8. Simple and easy for children to understand. For siblings who had baby at home. Ages 3-6.
Love, Mark
Mark T Scrivani
ID: 119
Type: Booklet
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
From end paper: "A series of Letters on Grief for Children (And those who used to be)." About the author: "Mark T. Scrivani is the youngest of eight children. He used to be the second-youngest of nine, but his little brother died in a car accident when Mark was seven. Five years later, his father died from cancer. Mark has also survived the deaths of his grandparents, other relatives and friends. He loves these people, and they still love him. Mark earned a B.A in Psychology from Canisius College, and an M.A. in Marriage and Family Counseling from Syracuse University. he is a psycho-therapist with a specialty in bereavement and loss issues. His private practice is located in the Syracuse (NY) area. Mark is the founder and moderator of HOPE FOR BEREAVED's HOPE For Youth support goup for young people in grief. Mark loves vanilla ice cream, sitting by a fireplace, reflecting by water, and most of all sunsets. He enjoys presenting workshops on grief and continues to learn from those he touches. His "Letters From Mark" are written to reach the child that lives in all of us. The letters are published in The HOPE Line, a monthly newsletter of HOPE FOR BEREAVED. Mark is an internationally recognized author of five books on grief for children. His most recent book, griefjouney, 1996, was written for teens and young adults."
Answers to a Child's Questions about Death
JJ Hartenstein Mortuary
ID: 118
Type: Booklet
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
Surviving the Death of a Sibling
TJ Wray
ID: 117
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
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. Based on the author's own experiences, as well as those of many others, Surviving the Death of a Sibling helps adults who have lost a brother or sister to realize that they are not alone in their struggle. Just as important, it teaches them to understand the unique stages of their grieving process, offering practical and prescriptive advice for dealing with each stage.
Landscape without Gravity
Barbara Lazear Ascher
ID: 116
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
In July 1989 Barbara Lazear Ascher learned that her brother, Bobby, had died of AIDS at the age of thirty-one. With an older sister's efficiency, she notified her parents and arranged Bobby's cremation; then, almost against her will, she began to grieve. This extraordinary book is a record of what she encountered in that "landscape without gravity." Here is a bold account of a sister coming to terms with her brother's death and with the type of grief that arises only when one sibling loses another-a grief that is all too often unacknowledged and borne in silence. Here too is a map for that "hero's journey" we call mourning. Ascher locates the moments of healing inside the kind of hurt that seems to last forever, making this profoundly comforting, invaluable reading for anyone-especially brothers and sisters faced with loss.
Home from Far
Jean Little
ID: 115
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
When her twin brother is killed in an accident, Jenny, feeling that part of herself is gone, is convinced that she will never get over the loss.
Bearing the Special Grief of Suicide
Arnaldo Pangrazzi
ID: 114
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 11
The suicide of someone you care about is a devastating tragedy. It happens in the best of families and to the best of people, shattering the lives of the shocked survivors.
When Your Child Dies: Finding the Meaning in Mourning
Nancy Comey Stevenson; Cary Higley Straffon
ID: 113
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The Poems of Sascha Wagner
Sascha Wagner
ID: 112
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
Parental Grief: Solace and Resolution
Dennis Klass
ID: 111
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
This compassionate book explores the unique nature of parental bereavement and the process through which it can finally be resolved. Based on the author's own extensive research with peer support groups of grieving parents, the book examines how a parent's sense of self and relationships with others are redefined when a child dies. It then outlines the many strategies of successful resolution, closely exploring four contexts: a self-help group of bereaved parents; a support group of parents of murdered children; a group of parents whose children had long-term illness; and a psychotherapeutic practice with bereaved parents. Case histories, interviews, and reflections written by bereaved parents are used to understand the lived experience of parents as they move through their grief toward solace and resolution. This readable yet scholarly volume is important for all who come into contact with bereaved parents, and particularly for mental health and human services professionals.
Ordinary People of our Time
Judith Guest
ID: 110
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
Judith Guest wrote a remarkable book about an ordinary family's response to an extraordinary tragedy; it was so popular in its time precisely because the Jarretts could be any American family and what happened in their family could happen in anyone's family. Well, maybe not in anyone's family; most Americans aren't wealthy enough to live in a McMansion in an upper-middle-class bedroom community nor do most families own a boat; but income aside, the Jarretts are like most people one knows: a hardworking father, a mother who wants the best for her family, and two teenage sons, one outgoing and confident, the other quiet and retiring, living in his older brother's shadow. A freak boating accident leaves the older brother dead by drowning, and the family devastated. The parents, Cal and Beth, and their younger son Conrad, are left to cope with the aftermath. "Ordinary People" is the story of how they cope - or fail to.
Letters of Hope: Living After the Loss of Your Child
Teresa Guillien
ID: 109
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
I will not Leave You Desolate
Martha Whitmore Hickman
ID: 108
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
This book provides help for parents in dealing with the pain and trauma associated with the death of a child. Simple and appropriate, the book contains short sections that are easy to read and easy to understand. To help you make that journey from overwhelming grief to a person still aware of that poignant loss, but cherishing the memories, relishing a full life, and grateful for both, is what this book is about. Pastors will find it helpful to keep a quantity on hand to give to people during grief experiences and in grief counseling. Check out books on the subject of grief and appropriate Bulletins (see the Related Products Section below). Did you know. . . Grief is the normal response of sorrow, emotion, and confusion that comes from losing someone important to you. The word "grief" comes from the same root as "grave." Although many times focused only on emotional responses to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. Grief responses are influenced by personality, family, culture, and spiritual and religious beliefs and practices. While many who grieve may be able to work through their grief independently, accepting additional support from counseling and support groups may promote the process of healing. The Book of Ecclesiastes reminds us "For everything there is a season... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance..."
Handling the Heartbreak of a Child's Death
Andrea Gambill
ID: 107
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 3
The death of a child is a jagged piece in life's puzzle, a discordant note in its symphony. Drawing upon her own loss, author Andrea Gambill offers practical, practiced advice for dealing with one of life's unthinkable tragedies.
Grieving the Death of a Grown Son or Daughter
Carol Luerbering
ID: 106
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 5
Dear Parents: Letters to Bereaved Parents
Centering Corporation
ID: 105
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
An Introduction to Poetry
Louis Simpson
ID: 104
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
A Grandparent's Sorrow
Pat Schwiebert
ID: 103
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving for Grandparents
Inventory: 1
Your child's baby has died, and sorrow fills your lives ina way that you may not have experienced in the past. You grieve not only the loss of your grandbaby that you will not get to enjoy growing up, but also for your child's loss in not being able to have what he or she wanted so much. It is a double loss for you, perhaps not as deep as the one your child will experience, but nonetheless significant, and in some ways more complicated. This booklet is offered to you as a source of comfort, and also as a guideline to help you journey with your child during this difficult time.
Healing a Father's Grief
William H. Schatz
ID: 102
Type: Booklet
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory: 1
When Pregnancy Fails: Coping with miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death
Susan borg and Judith Lasker
ID: 101
Type: Booklet
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
Advice on genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis, support groups combines with personal accounts to help couples understand the impact of and cope with pregnancy problems
When a Baby Dies
Martha Jo Church
ID: 100
Type: Booklet
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
Written to help give parents insights into the grieving process by those who have personally experienced the death of an infant. Covers the grief response, facing the world again, family members, and another pregnancy.
Miscarriage: A Book for Parents Experiencing Fetal Death
Joy and Marvin Johnson
ID: 99
Type: Booklet
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
Ended Beginnings
Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo
ID: 98
Type: Booklet
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
"Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience." American Baby's Childbirth Educator
When Someone Dies
Edgar N Jackson
ID: 97
Type: Booklet
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
To help you through the hurting
Marjorie Holmes
ID: 96
Type: Booklet
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
This book was written after the death of Marjorie Holmes first husband of 47 years in an effort to help others.
The Bereaved Parent
Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
ID: 95
Type: Booklet
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
This is the classic book for parents whose child has died - and for all who want to help them. Many such parents feel that no one can help because no one can understand the complex ramifications of their tragedy: the exhaustion, the quarrels with mates, the sleeplessness, the panic, the inertia, the horror of laughter - all the seemingly endless aftermath of sorrow and despair. Yet, because she herself is a bereaved mother, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff is able to give genuine comfort. If you have lost a child, you know that pain like yours cannot be erased, and Schiff does not attempt to do so. Instead, she offers guidelines and practical step-by-step suggestions to help you cope with every stage of grief, from facing the funeral to rebuilding your marriage. Her book will convince you that you, too, can find your way back to the land of the living.
Getting Through the Holidays When You've Lost a Loved One
Darcie D. Sims
ID: 94
Type: Booklet
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 5
In many ways, suicide is one of the most difficult deaths to mourn. As you mourn the death of your friend or loved one, you probably feel a sense of betrayal. You have invested years of caring, loyalty, and patience with the deceased. Suddenly you are abandoned and rejected. Perhaps you have had such thought as: "How could she do this to me?" "Couldn't he think about the children?" "Weren't we enough for him?" Because you are bewildered by what has happened, you search for whys. A message left may help interpret what went on in the person's mind before the suicide. Yet the painful questions remain: "Why did he do it?" "Was she angry at me?" Learn to live with unanswered questions. We do have some clues why people choose suicide. We know that suicide is often the response to some kind of loss; to real or perceived failure; to physical, psychological, or spiritual pain. The person's problem becomes the only thing that exists, and he or she cannot conceive that life will ever become any better.
We Need Not Walk Alone
The Compassionate Friends Summer 2010
ID: 93
Type: Booklet
Category: Compassionate Friends Conference
Inventory: 1
Literature from the Annual Conference in 2010.
This Healing Journey: An Anthology for Bereaved Siblings
The Compassionate Friends
ID: 92
Type: Booklet
Category: Compassionate Friends Conference
Inventory: 1
Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss
Deborah Morris Coryell
ID: 91
Type: Book and CD
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
A compassionate guide to the experience of loss as an essential growth process : ? Explores the nature of loss as a profound mystery shared by all human beings, ? Offers sensitive and practical advice for experiencing grief and preparing for the healing journey that follows , We grieve only for that which we have loved, and the transient nature of life makes love and loss intimate companions. In Good Grief professional grief educator Deborah Morris Coryell describes grief as the experience of not having anywhere to place our love, of losing a connection, an outlet for our emotion. To heal grief we have to learn how to continue to love in the face of loss. In this compassionate guide, Coryell gives inspiring examples of how embracing our losses allows us to awaken our most profound connections to other people. Though our society tends to rank losses in a ?hierarchy of grief,? she reminds us that all losses must be grieved in their own right and on their own terms, and that we must honor the ?small? losses as well as the ?big? ones. Paying attention to even the most minute experiences of loss can help us to be more in tune with our responses to the greater ones, allowing us to once again become part of the rhythm of life from which we have become disconnected. This 10th anniversary edition includes a 60-minute CD of the author reading select passages from the text.
Thumpy's Story
Nancy C Dodge
ID: 90
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
Thumpy's Story is a very special story. In a warm and sensitive way it will help children deal with the loss of a loved one. It's thought-provoking message should encourage children to discuss their feelings. The exquisite illustrations help tell the wonderful story. I know of no other book like it. I recommend it for children of all ages. - Mary F. Loken, PhD "Grieving children relate easily to the grieving bunnies in Thumpy's Story. Parents, teachers and members of the helping professions will find this compassionate, yet practical, tale helpful in explaining to children normal reactions to death." - Ahbee Robinson, MA
The Tale of the Scorpion and the Caterpillar
Jinny Toucan
ID: 89
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
This story brings you on a journey with an unusual pair of friends, a scorpion and a caterpillar as they face their fears, only to discover their strengths. This wise and enchanting fable unfolds the secrets of the insect world in how it relates to us. Appealing to children and young adults of all ages, this gentle tale helps those who are struggling with the loss of a loved one. This book uses the allegory of metamorphosis to assist children in understanding death. A beautiful, hope filled metaphor which emphasizes transformation and the power of unconditional love. This unusual pair of friends also introduce the diverse society in which we live. Accepting and valuing people and groups with different ethnicities is a crucial social skill. Yet this strange pair become close friends, love and accept each other, and actually celebrate their differences along their journey home.
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
Pat Schwiebert
ID: 88
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
The book will validate your grief experience, and you can share it with your children. You can leave it on the coffee table so others will pick it up, read it, and then better appreciate your grieving time. Grand's Cooking Tips section at the back of the book is rich with wisdom and concrete recommendations. Better than a casserole!
No New Baby
Marilyn Gryte
ID: 87
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
For siblings who have a brother or sister die before birth. This storybook talks about the different feelings children have and answers some of the most asked questions. Recently revised, includes a section for parents and grandparents. Illustrations are done by Kristi McClendon.
Making Lemonade: Choosing a Positive Pathway After Losing Your Sibling
Zander Sprague
ID: 86
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
There are many things that you think you might be prepared for in your life, losing your sibling is not one of them. In December of 1996, Zander Sprague's sister was murdered. All of a sudden he found himself thrust into a very unfamiliar world. Even with all the love and support of his friends and family he found that he alone had to choose a positive pathway to healing and recovery. This book is for anyone who has lost a sibling and wants some guidance on how they too can find their own positive pathway.
Helping Children Cope with Grief
Alan Wolfelt, PhD
ID: 85
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
Guidelines are presented in the book of how one can create a "helping healing relationship." Through reading and participating in the activities presented, the reader will become capable of establishing a very special kind of goal-directed experience with the grieving child. Unites interpretation of human research and grief processes to accentuate the quality of caregiving to children during their grief periods. Explained are the stages through which the grieving person must travel with help, characteristics of a caregiver are expounded, and techniques presented to create the best atmosphere for a grieving child to thrive with love and care.
Am I Still a Sister?
Alicia M. Stins
ID: 84
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
An eleven year old sister tell the story of her brother's death, how she worked through her grief and how her brother will always be a part of her.
150 Facts About Grieving Children
Erin Linn
ID: 83
Type: Book
Category: Helping Children with Grief
Inventory: 1
Caring for children who grieve requires great sensitivity, warmth, and love. What do you say? How do you respond? This book addresses many of the important issues in a way that everyone can understand.
The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
ID: 82
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen. The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching, often haunting recollection of life with Ted, woven into a larger exploration of the enormous -- and often unacknowledged -- impact of a sister's or brother's death on remaining siblings. With an inspired blend of life experience, journalistic acumen, and research training, DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage, that attend such loss. Finding little in professional literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward. The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey.
Sibling Grief
Margaret G Sherago
ID: 81
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
My Brother Joey Died
Gloria Houston
ID: 80
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
A child goes through the difficult process of adjusting to the sudden illness and death of a brother
Remembering Garrett: One Family's Battle with a Child's Dep
US Senator Gordon H. Smith
ID: 79
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
Oregon Senator Gordon Smith's son, Garrett, battled learning disabilities and clinical depression for most of his life. At the age of twenty-two, while attending the University of Utah, this popular young man took his own life. As parents, Smith and his wife Sharon, who had adopted Garrett as a newborn, were heartbroken. And, as a senator, Smith was forced to question whether he had the strength or even the desire to carry on in politics. For the first time, Smith candidly retraces his son's life leading up to his suicide. He chronicles the crippling sadness he and his wife faced in the aftermath; and how, with the help of faith and those around him, he not only returned to politics, but became a fearless advocate of suicide prevention. His moving speech on the Senate floor upon the passage of his Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which increases federal funding to combat the ever-growing problem of youth suicide, brought a rare moment of bipartisan support on the Senate floor and helped open a long overdue national discussion. Remembering Garrett speaks from the heart to parents who have experienced the same tragedy, or are fighting for a child struggling with depression .
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved On
Carla Fine
ID: 78
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
With this book, Carla Fine brings suicide survival from the darkness into the light, speaking frankly and with compassion about the overwhelming feelings of confusion, guilt, sadness, shame, anger, and loneliness that are shared by all survivors. No Time to Say Goodbye, an international bestseller now in its 13th printing, is a personal story: Carla's husband, a prominent New York physician, killed himself in 1989 at the age of 43. She also interviewed more than 60 people who lost sons and daughters, wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, friends and relatives to suicide. The book describes stages of grieving surrounding the suicide of a loved one and helps survivors see that they are not alone in their confusion and grief.
Healing the Suicide of a Loved One
Ann Smolin CSW and John Guinan PhD
ID: 77
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
Too often people suffering the aftermath of a suicide suffer alone. As the survivor of a person who has ended his or her own life, you are left a painful legacy -- and not one that you chose.Healing After the Suicide of a Loved Onewill help you take the first steps toward healing. While each individual becomes a suicide survivor in his or her own way, there are predictable phases of pain that most survivors experience sooner or later, from the grief and depression of mourning to guilt, rage, and despair over what you have lost.You may be torturing yourself with repetitive questions such as "What if...?" "Why didn't we...?" and "Why, why, why?"Healing After the Suicide of a Loved Onewill steer you away from this all-too-common tendency to blame yourself and will put you on the path to healing and recovery. Remember, your wounds can heal and you can recover. Filled with case studies, excellent information, valuable advice, and a completely up-to-date reading list and directory of suicide support groups nationwide, this valuable book will give you the strength and hope to go on living.
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
Ann Smolin CSW and John Guinan PhD
ID: 76
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
Too often people suffering the aftermath of a suicide suffer alone. As the survivor of a person who has ended his or her own life, you are left a painful legacy -- and not one that you chose.Healing After the Suicide of a Loved Onewill help you take the first steps toward healing. While each individual becomes a suicide survivor in his or her own way, there are predictable phases of pain that most survivors experience sooner or later, from the grief and depression of mourning to guilt, rage, and despair over what you have lost.You may be torturing yourself with repetitive questions such as "What if...?" "Why didn't we...?" and "Why, why, why?"Healing After the Suicide of a Loved Onewill steer you away from this all-too-common tendency to blame yourself and will put you on the path to healing and recovery. Remember, your wounds can heal and you can recover. Filled with case studies, excellent information, valuable advice, and a completely up-to-date reading list and directory of suicide support groups nationwide, this valuable book will give you the strength and hope to go on living
Goodbye Jeanine
Joyce Sackett
ID: 75
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
After experiencing a suicide in the family, is it really possible to sweep up the shattered pieces of a grieving heart and find healing? This book examines the faith journey of a mom who learned to survive physically and emotionally after her daughter's suicide and how she dealt with her loss, anger, fear, shame. and guilt.
Dying to be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide
Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch
ID: 74
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
Honest, gentle advice for those who have survived an unspeakable loss-the suicide of a loved one. Transforming suffering into strength, misconceptions into understanding, and shame into dignity, Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through the dangerous silence and stigma surrounding suicide to bring readers this much-needed book. Cobain's achingly honest account of dealing with the suicide of a loved one, along with personal stories from others who experienced this profound loss, provide powerful insight into the confusion, fear, and guilt family members experience. A chapter about "the suicidal mind" helps families not only comprehend the depth of their loved one's pain prior to suicide, but also understand why such desperation is so difficult to recognize-even in the closest relationships. By sharing survivor stories as well as the latest thinking and statistics about suicide, Cobain and Larch break through myths, misinformation, and misunderstandings. The result is a book of extraordinary compassion and steadfast guidance for anyone awash in the aftermath of unfathomable loss.
Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of my Son
Gordon Livingston
ID: 73
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child from Sickness
Inventory: 1
The loss of a child is every parent's worst fear. Gordon Livingston survived that tragedy not once but twice, in successive years. Only Spring, crafted from his journal, traces his son Lucas's courageous battle with leukemia, his extraordinary gift of love, and Livingston's own cycle of faith lost and hope regained. This edition includes a new epilogue by the author.
Grief Labyinth
Carole Lindroos
ID: 72
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child from Sickness
Inventory: 1
Grief Labyrinth is the journey I began with my daughter Inga's breast cancer diagnosis and her death at the age of thirty. I felt so heartbroken I did not think I would survive. In time, I discovered and walked the labyrinth, a profound metaphor for the grief process. The only way through is forward, with many twisting turns and going back and forth over what seems like the same territory. Walking the labyrinth path with my grief repeatedly, I ultimately discovered healing, trust, hope and joy.A transforming path"With the wisdom that comes only from personal experience, Carole offers to others a transforming path through grief. Her deep sharing highlights the benefit of turning towards one's grief. What she refers to as "The 4 R's"-reviewing, releasing receiving and returning are specific reflections that lead toward healing and integration. I recommend this book to anyone who has lost a loved one." -Ange Stephens, MA LMFT, Psychotherapist specialist in grief"This honest, heartfelt, and encouraging book offers the labyrinth as a comfort for the journey of grief." -Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, author of The Hospice Choice"This book is a moving testimony of a mother's path through grief. A path that takes us from fragmentation to wholeness. It reminds us that in the intense grief surrounding the loss of someone we love we rediscover the pool of grief that we have always carried. The ordinary, everyday grief that inhabits all our lives." -Frank Ostaseski, founder Metta Institute In this unique book, mourners will find meaning and wisdom in grieving-and renewed joy and completeness in their lives.
Climbing Toward the Light: A Journey of Growth, Understanding and Love
Ardath H. Rodale
ID: 71
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child from Sickness
Inventory: 1
The victims of the AIDS virus are not only those who have died. Their families are left behind to cope with the tragedy of a life-- often a young life-- taken quickly and cruelly. Such is the story of David and Ardie Rodale. David was a musician, playwright, painter, computer expert, a 30-year-old whose creativity and drive were just beginning to coalesce into a life of purpose and joy. And then, suddenly, he developed pneumonia and died, a victim of AIDS. His mother, Ardie, was faced with the immensity of that loss-- and this book is the result of her three years of uncovering the inner meaning and message in the death of her son. For in the intense emotion of living with that death, Ardie found new life, new purpose-- new light. This book, written with the sincerity and earnestness of a true seeker, is the story of a phoenix, a woman rising from the ashes of grief and despair to new heights of self-realization and love. It is the story of a mother of five, for in coping with David's death, Ardie probed the meaning of her relationships with all of her children. It is the story of a wife and her quest for self-determination and true love. It is the story of a working woman, of finding identity and strength in personal accomplishment. But most of all, it is the story of an opening heart-- of a person confronting the undeniable fact of loss, and finding in that confrontation an inspiring strength that calls us all to "Climb Toward the Light" of understanding and love.
A Tribute to Leslie: A Walk Through Grief
Lavinia Bratton Penniman
ID: 70
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child from Sickness
Inventory: 1
The author's daughter, a former flight attendant, died of cancer.
Mother, Do You Know What AIDS Is?
Anne Serabian
ID: 69
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child from Sickness
Inventory: 1
Who Will Sing to Me Now?
Bonnie Hunt Conrad
ID: 68
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
When nineteen-year-old Laurie Conrad of Baltimore was shot to death in Fredericksburg, Virginia in September of 1983, the police and the medical examiner attempted to convince Laurie's family that she had committed suicide. But for those who knew Laurie, the facts just didn't add up. Despite suffering terrible grief, Laurie's mother Bonnie Hunt Conrad began a personal investigation of her daughter's shooting. She eventually uncovered evidence that was kept secret by the police for eleven years--evidence which, for family and friends, shed dramatic new light on Laurie's mysterious death. For those closest to Laurie, the mystery remains unsolved--they are searching for her killer. Who Will Sing to Me Now? is an investigation of the mystery surrounding Laurie Conrad's death. But it is also a story about mourning the loss of a loved one. Bonnie Hunt Conrad reveals her most private feelings of grief, especially those that caused her shame and made her feel, at times, insane. Bonnie hopes her pull-no punches story will help other bereaved individuals find the courage to travel the road to recovery by experiencing their grief in their own unique way. In this powerful and riveting story, you will experience a police investigation from the inside, and come to know an average family thrust into one of life's most devastating situations. Along the way you will travel through, and come to understand, the twisted hell of child-death grief.
When Dreams and Daughters Die
MH DeMent
ID: 67
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
A tender-hearted mother writes about the private grief of having an addicted child. Of the twenty fear-ridden years, as the sickness of alcoholism overwhelms her once zsheltered-idyllicz family. Second, she writes of the grief of losing a child in death. Of the loss of identity, her own failures, and the disappointments of finding that our society, and even the church, seems unable to respond well to the bereaved parent.Finally, she writes of her on-going journey of being vulnerable zas she learns to walk and talk again, within the foreign land of grief.
Thin Ice: A Story of Multiple Deaths
David Buthman
ID: 66
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child
Barbara D Rosof
ID: 65
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The death of a child is like no other loss. The Worst Loss will help families who have experienced this to know what they are facing, understand what they are feeling, and appreciate their own needs and timetables. "...draws on stories of surviving families, as well as on the latest research, to explore the healing process parents must go through when they lose a child."
The Grief of the Parents: A Lifetime Journey

ID: 64
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The Grief of Parents When a Child Dies
Margaret Shandor Miles
ID: 63
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
From the author's curriculum vitae: "I also volunteered for many years to help parents whose infants died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Both experiences lead to my intense interest in the grief of parents and care of dying children. As such, I was one of the early leaders in health care that directed our focus to needs of people who were dying and the bereaved."
The Bereaved Parent
Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
ID: 62
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
This is the classic book for parents whose child has died - and for all who want to help them. Many such parents feel that no one can help because no one can understand the complex ramifications of their tragedy: the exhaustion, the quarrels with mates, the sleeplessness, the panic, the inertia, the horror of laughter - all the seemingly endless aftermath of sorrow and despair. Yet, because she herself is a bereaved mother, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff is able to give genuine comfort. If you have lost a child, you know that pain like yours cannot be erased, and Schiff does not attempt to do so. Instead, she offers guidelines and practical step-by-step suggestions to help you cope with every stage of grief, from facing the funeral to rebuilding your marriage. Her book will convince you that you, too, can find your way back to the land of the living.
Saying Olin to Say Goodbye
Donald Hackett
ID: 61
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
Writing about his son Olin: enclosed are lovely poems
Safe in the Arms of God: Truth from Heaven About the Death
John MacArthur
ID: 60
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
If you have ever faced the death of a child, or you have ever had to comfort a mom or dad whose little one died, you need to be able to answer some crucial questions: Where do babies go when they die?
Recovering from the loss of a child
Katherine Fair Donnelly
ID: 59
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
When a child dies, the pain and shock can seem unbearable. But in sharing, understanding, and accepting this tragic loss, emotional recovery is possible.Katherine Fair Donnelly's groundbreaking book shows bereaved parents, siblings, and others how to cope with one of life's cruelest blows. With inspiring firsthand accounts from others who have survived this heartbreaking experience, this compassionate and reassuring volumne can help in healing the heartand learning to live again.
Parental Loss of a Child
Therese A. Rando
ID: 58
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The contributing authors of the book's 37 chapters, some of whom are bereaved parents, offer comprehensive analyses of many types of parental bereavement. The book identifies specific clinical interventions and support procedures that are appropriate for helping all bereaved parents.
Our Children Forever
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski
ID: 57
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
In their third book (following We Are Not Forgotten and We Do Not Die ), the trio of psychic Anderson; Martin, his co-host on the cable show Psychic Channels ; and Dreamgirl coauthor Romanowski, focus on Anderson's alleged conversations with children who have died. Grieving parents sought out Anderson, and in lengthy question-and-answer interviews sandwiched between reconstructions of the families' lives and their thoughts after the psychic's readings, Anderson pieces together details of the children's lives; deaths; current existences "on the other side"; the relatives, friends and pets there with them; and their comforting words to their parents, absolving them of guilt and reassuring them of their love. All but two conversations are based, "on videotape, on audiotape, or in notes Joel took while witnessing the reading" (though which are which is not noted). Some parents in similar need of comfort will be convinced when Anderson immediately hits on a dead child's name. Skeptics, however, will find the similarity of opening gamuts (usually "A male close to you passed") and his backpedaling as he searches for the right answer less convincing ("he's telling me there's health involved, it's accidental, and it's very sudden. He showed me a car accident. But he says 'It's not a car accident.' . . . And then he started talking about his health. I thought he was trying to tell me he didn't pass from a health problem").
On Children and Death
Elisabeth Kubler Ross
ID: 56
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth K
My Son? My Son?: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss or Suicide
Iris Bolton
ID: 55
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
After the 1977 suicide of her 20 year old musician son, Iris Bolton says, "to climb from that emotional abyss would force me to fight the hardest battle of my life." On top of that, she was faced with the stigma of a "failed parent", and, she felt like a "discredited counselor" as the director of a family therapy center. Suicide transmits a public ridicule and private humiliation, grief, guilt and anger. Bolton eloquently shares her experience with brilliant usage of metaphors to describe the tortured process from grief to survival.
Lament for a Son
Nicholas Wolterstorff
ID: 54
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
This book was written more than twelve years ago to honor the authors son Eric, who died in a mountain-climbing accident in Austria in his twenty-fifth year, and to voice Wolterstorffs grief. Though it is intensely personal, he decided to publish it in the hope that some of those who sit on the mourning bench for children would find his words giving voice to their own honoring and grieving. What he learned, to his surprise, is that in its particularity there is universality. Many who have lost children have written him. But many who have lost other relatives have done so as well, along with many who have experienced loss in forms other than the death of relatives or friends. The sharply particular words of Lament, so he has learned, give voice to the pain of many forms of loss. This book, Lament For A Son, has become a love-song. Every lament, after all, is a love-song. Will love-songs one day no longer be laments?
How to Survive the Loss of a Child
Catherine Sanders
ID: 53
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
It is only through experiencing grief that bereaved parents ultimately heal. Moving through the phases of grief, the bereaved person works toward restoration. Understanding these phases, knowing what to expect, and learning what they can do to help themselves give parents greater assurance and comfort. In How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Dr. Sanders, a bereaved parent herself, offers grieving parents practical help and emotional support. This book also helps family members, friends, and caregivers relate to grieving parents and aids them, too, in understanding the process of healing through grief.
Gone But Not Lost
David W. Wiersbe
ID: 52
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
We all expect our parents to precede us in death. No one expects to have to make their child's funeral arrangements. And the loss of a child brings with it a special and persistent manifestation of grief that can feel "like a stomachache that never ends." Gone but Not Lost is a thoughtful gift for a family that has experienced the death of a child. Each of its brief chapters covers one element of grieving, bringing readers through sorrow and helping them deal with feelings of anger or guilt, as well as the marital strain that may follow the loss of a beloved child.
Angel Unaware
Dale Evans Rogers
ID: 51
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
The classic story of Robin Elizabeth Rogers' brief yet purposeful sojourn on earth has been transforming the lives of millions for over forty years.
After the Death of a Child
Ann K. Finkbeiner
ID: 50
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
After a child dies, the parent's world changes entirely. Years later, this new world has changed the parents. The exact nature of this change?the long-term effects of the death?illuminates the nature of the bond between parents and children. Ann Finkbeiner lost her son in a train accident when he was 18. Several years later, she noticed she was feeling better and wondered whether this feeling was what was meant by "recovery." As a science writer, she read the psychological, sociological, and psychiatric research into parental bereavement. And as a bereaved parent, she asked hard questions of thirty parents whose child had died at least five years before, of all causes and at all ages. In this book, Finkbeiner combines the research and the parents' answers into a description of the parents' new lives. The parents talk about their changed marriages and their changed relationships with their other children, with their friends and relatives. They talk about their attempts to make sense of the death and about their drastically changed priorities. And most important, they talk about how they still love their children, how the child seems to see through their eyes and live through their actions. They move on through their grief, they get on with their lives, but they never let go of their children. Their wisdom is here presented to any in need of it.
A Broken Heart Still Beats After Your Child Dies
Anne McCracken; Mary Semel
ID: 49
Type: Book
Category: Grieving the Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
There are few, if any, events in life as traumatic, heart-wrenching, and crushing as the death of a child. While nothing can mute the pain of such a life-shattering loss, others who know this experience can help those suffering articulate the chaos of their feelings and see that they can, eventually, feel whole again. Organized by a journalist and a psychotherapist, each of whom has lost a child, A Broken Heart Still Beats is a remarkable compilation of poetry, fiction, and essays about the pain, stages of grief, and the coping and healing process that follows the death of one's child. The chapters are organized thematically and chronologically, from "Thunderstruck," the point at which parents first learn they have lost a child, to "The Legacy of Loss," wherein the authors and the anthology selections speak to the "steely hard and cold" life lessons this type of bereavement brings. This compilation of poems and excerpts draws from short stories, novels, biographies, and autobiographies that focus on the death of a child as relayed through classic and contemporary world literature. It is made up of works by some of the best writers and thinkers present and past, many of them bereaved parents as well, ranging from Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, William Shakespeare, John Edgar Wideman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Anne Tyler, and Sophocles to Eric Clapton and Winston Churchill. Biographical introductions personalize the excerpts, often offering new insights into well-known writers like William Faulkner and Rudyard Kipling. This book's anthologized selections make it truly exceptional. This book expresses the universal themes of grief--and the common points of these experiences and feelings--in language and imagery that goes straight to the heart. The fact that each of the authors has lost a child brings a powerful authenticity to the book. Bereaved parents and family members as well as mental health professionals, bereavement counselors, and those interested in grief literature will all find this book extremely valuable. Born and raised in new York, Mary Semel graduated from Goucher College in Baltimore. She is a psychotherapist who, after working for many years at Sheppard Pratt Hospital, now has a private practice. Her sixteen-year-old son, Alexander, was killed in a car accident in 1991. Anne McCracken is a former newspaper reporter and feature writer. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Hollis. She lost her five-year-old son, Jake, in 1989.
Transcending Loss
Ashley Davis Prend
ID: 48
Type: Book
Category: Grieving Process
Inventory: 1
An inspiring new approach to the lifelong process of grieving. The author asserts that death doesn't end the relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship -- one based not on physical presence but on memory, spirit, and love. A licensed psychotherapist and bereavement support specialist helps grievers deal with the ongoing impact of their loss -- and the attempt to transcend it. "There are many wonderful grief books available that address acute grief and how to cope with it. But these books often focus on crisis management and imply that there is an 'end' to mourning. They essentially fail to address the issue of grief's ongoing impact, and how it changes through the years... This is a book about death and grief, yes, but more importantly it is a book about love and hope. I have learned from [my interviews with] courageous people about pain, struggle, resiliency, and meaning. Their stories show that over time, you can learn to transcend even in spite of pain. We all get broken by life sooner or later because loss is the price we pay for living and loving. But experience shows that we can become stronger at the broken places and find the opportunity in crisis. I hope this book will help you move beyond grief and will guide you on your journey through time of healing and transcendence." -- From the introduction.
Overcoming Loss: A Healing Guide
Dr. Rita Freedman
ID: 47
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Mothers and Women
Inventory: 1
Freedman is a nationally-known writer, speaker, and expert on the psychology of women. She maintains a clinical practice in Harrison, N.Y.
Heaven's Child
Caroline Flohr
ID: 46
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Mothers and Women
Inventory: 1
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SARAH, younger twin by two hours, wrote "And now it is time for my story to end because we have finally reached the beginning." Did she know? How could she have guessed? Or did she just happen to choose words that had a greater meaning for her life about to be tragically cut short? A big-hearted memoir, Heaven's Child captures the reader with a profound look inside a mother's courageous journey through grief to her ultimate spiritual renewal. From the exquisite pain of loss to the magical buoyancy of hope, author Caroline Flohr intimately shares her family's struggle and reinvention after the unexpected death of her twin teenage daughter, Sarah. Finding her way back to joy, Flohr reminds us how we all must learn to live presently, love whole-heartedly and when the time comes, gracefully let go. As young Sarah wisely wrote in her high school homework assignment, even an ending can turn into a new beginning. This universally touching story is an inspired guide showing us all how the human spirit's innate love and resilience can heal, transform and reignite our soul even after life's most tragic losses.
When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can
Elizabeth Levang, PhD
ID: 45
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory: 1
Psychologist Elizabeth Levang, author of Remembering with Love, explains the special ways that men grieve so those who love them can better understand what they're going through.
Swallowed by a Snake, The gift of the masculine side of healing
Thomas R. Golden
ID: 44
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory:
(Excerpts from the Introduction) This is a book that both men and women will find helpful. A man reading these pages will find a book that honors the uniqueness of a man's path towards healing. A woman reading this book will benefit not only from gaining a deeper understanding of the men in her life, she will find herself in these pages. Although the majority of examples are about men it is an indisputable fact that women find this masculine gift a powerful ally in their own path toward healing. Both genders have access to the gift of the masculine side of healing. Each of us has both masculine and feminine qualities-it is our unique blend of these that determines our best path to healing. The masculine side of healing is not as accepted a mode of healing as the more traditional verbal and emotional expressions. It tends to be quieter and less visible, less connected with the past and more aligned with action. As a consequence, the grief therapist author has noticed repeatedly that people who use a predominance of this masculine side of healing are suspected even by mental health professionals of "not really healing".
Maci's Place, The Loss of a Child Through A Father's Eyes
Michael S. Miller
ID: 43
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory:
(From the back cover) Losing a child is the most devastating thing that can ever happen to anyone. Learning to live with that loss is equally devastating. Outlined in this book is the true story of one man's loss in the hope that it provides comfort and understanding to you. This journey outlines the psychology behind the way you feel day in and day out, and displays a first-hand understanding to why things are happening the way they are. This book is intended for men suffering from the loss of their child in any number of situations. Yet, if you are a loved one trying to understanding to the man in your life, it can provide guidance as well. Through the detailed explanations, we hope that those who want to understand the way a man truly feels with such great loss will understand just how incredibly painful it can be.
Grief Relief
Victor M. Parachin
ID: 42
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory: 1
Victor Parachin offers ten steps to help understand and manage grief and to cope with life during this difficult time. A special section for men provides specific information and examples for this often-silent group of mourners. Healing Grief is an ideal resource for pastors, chaplains, and other grief counselors to give to those who have experienced a loss.
Give Sorrow Words: A Father's Passage Through Grief
Tom Crider
ID: 41
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory: 1
This is a book for any bereaved person who is facing loss without the support of firm religious beliefs. When Tom Crider's only child, Gretchen, died in an apartment fire her junior year in college, there seemed to be no way to assuage his pain or to find meaning in his daughter's sudden death. Now he has written the book he searched for in his grief and couldn't find, one that offers - without sermons or certainty - companionship in agony and an exploration of spiritual issues related to death. It's a book for readers, people who would, in sorrow, naturally turn to books for shared experience, reflection, wisdom - comfort in words passed down through the ages. Give Sorrow Words begins just after Gretchen's death. It ends a year later as her father begins to accept his loss. With exquisite honesty, Crider describes his struggle with grief's turbulent emotions, a mind unhinged, and an ego intent upon preserving its illusions. By interspersing the narrative with entries from his journal, he documents the inward progress of his search for solace in nature and in children, good friends and beloved family. Most of all, though, he offers what he discovered in literature. Filled with gleanings from the wisdom and text of many cultures - from Socrates to the teachings of Buddha, from the biography of Queen Victoria to the Book of Job, from poets Yeats and Eliot to Holocaust survivors - Tom Crider shares with us the wisdom that helped him find peace.
A Grief Unveiled: One Father's Journey Through the Death of a Child
Gregory Floyd
ID: 40
Type: Book
Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men
Inventory: 1
How can I know my baby is in heaven? Why did my child have to die? In his book Safe in the Arms of God, John MacArthur offers biblical comfort to parents grieving the death of an infant, small child, or mentally disabled adult child incapable of exercising faith in the Lord Jesus. The book also features real-life encouragement from Christian couples who have lost children and have found true peace-even joy-through faith in Christ.
When Hello means Goodbye
Pat Schwiebert
ID: 39
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
A guide for parents whose child dies before birth, at birth, or shortly after birth. This sensitive booklet is a help to families during the early days of their grief.
Waiting for Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief L
Amy Kuebelbeck
ID: 38
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
In Waiting with Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life, AP journalist Amy Kuebelbeck shares the heartbreaking story of the brief life of her son, Gabriel, born with a rare heart defect. Kuebelbeck and her husband learned of the problem during the second trimester of her pregnancy, when they were told that he would only live for a few days after birth. In the memoir, she recounts that he actually lived only a few hours, but explains that his life was invested with meaning for his family and the hospital staff. This is not so much a book about grief and loss as it is a testament to the importance of recognizing grace and beauty in the here and now; faced with the imminent death of their son, Kuebelbeck learned to appreciate every moment with her husband and their other children. Although the book is enriched by a strong Roman Catholic perspective, readers of any faith will connect with Kuebelbeck's tale of spiritual growth through love and bereavement.
Still to Be Born
Pat Schwiebert
ID: 37
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
A guide for bereaved parents who are making decisions about their future.
Mommy Don't Cry There Are No Tears In Heaven
Linda Deymaz
ID: 36
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
Linda DeYmaz, her husband, Mark, and their four children live in Little Rock, where Mark is a pastor of the Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas. On Easter morning of 1995 their little daughter was stillborn. Linda, the author of two books, believes that God sent Ali Grace to enrich her life and give her a glimpse of heaven.
Miscarriage
Joy and Marvin Johnson
ID: 35
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
When you have a miscarriage you have a very real and powerful grief. It may be one of your first encounters with death. It is certainly something you never forget. This book deals with feelings, anger, guilt, guestions, withdrawal, reaching out, dads, couples, relationships, statements that hurt and memorializing the baby.
Losing Malcolm: A Mother's Journey Through Grief
Carol Henderson
ID: 34
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
One autumn morning Carol Henderson was a new mother recovering in the hospital and cradling a baby the doctor declared perfect. Within days of delivery, the new mother's peaceful world disintegrated into a nightmare of hospitals, tubes, EKG's, and operations. Her baby had a serious heart murmur. Losing Malcolm is a frank and compelling narrative about a naive mother whose carefully constructed life unravels when her infant son dies. Before her son's devastating illness, the author had little experience with the realities of disease and death. After dealing with doctors and living around the clock in the hospital, Henderson, a hypochondriac who feared all things medical, becomes an informed and tenacious advocate for her child. After a free-fall plunge to the depths of her grief, she resurfaces with a newfound sense of self, a deep empathy for others, and a poignant awareness that enduring grief eventually takes its place in the broader tapestry of life. Interweaving dreams and journal entries, this highly original memoir offers an evocative chronicle of emotional devastation and recovery. Henderson's account also reveals the differing ways in which she and her husband responded to their child's death and the ways in which loss transformed them. With wit and caring, she also deals with the taboos that exist in the way society-grandparents, friends, and neighbors-deal with death. This spare, honest narrative resonates with universal themes. It will appeal to those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, those who know someone who is suffering, and those who are interested in reading about the tragedies and triumphs of others.
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Deborah L Davis, PhD
ID: 33
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after such tragedy. Deborah Davis encourages grieving and makes suggestions for coping. This book strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention. There is also a special chapter for fathers as well as a chapter on "protective parenting" to help anxious parents enjoy their precious living children. Doctors, nurses, relatives, friends, and other support persons can gain special insight. Most importantly, parents facing the death of a baby will find necessary support in this gentle guide. If reading this book moves you to cry, try to accept this reaction. Your tears merge with those of other grieving parents.
A Silent Love: Personal Stories of Coming to Terms with Mis
Adrienne Ryan
ID: 32
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
Many people who have suffered miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death have been made to feel they shouldn't talk about it. As a result, their grief has often been compounded by guilt, shame, and sometimes anger. Now, with great sensitivity, Adrienne Ryan, who has herself suffered multiple miscarriages, explains why this grief is different than any other. This collection of more than fifty real-life storieswritten by mothers as well as fathers and grandparentsgive voice to that grief in all its emotional and psychic complexity. A Silent Love will offer support and hope to those who have lost a child, and will be an invaluable guide for friends and family.
A Place of Peace: One Mother's Inspirational Journey to Rec
Jennifer Hander
ID: 31
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
When twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer Hander learns that she and her husband are expecting identical twin girls, she?s ecstatic. But what should be a fantastic experience soon turns into a medical nightmare. The girls develop TTTS (Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome) and are delivered by emergency caesarian section at just twenty-six weeks? gestation. Alexa and Alysa both enter neonatal intensive care minutes after delivery. Three months later Alexa is released, but Alysa never makes it home. A Place of Peace chronicles Hander?s intimate experience, from the twins? conception until the day that Alysa passes away in her mother?s arms. In the midst of her overwhelming grief, Hander realizes that the loss of a child is enough to destroy a person?but she refuses to succumb to the darkness. Instead, she clings to her faith and allows the peace of the Lord to enter her heart. Hander?s moving tribute to her daughter shows us that the Lord has wonderful things planned for all of us. Only when we open ourselves to his will and accept his plan can we find contentment. A Place of Peace is an inspiration to follow God?s path, take charge of our lives, and embrace the happiness we deserve.
A Piece of My Heart: Living Through the Grief of Miscarriag
Molly Fumia
ID: 30
Type: Book
Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death
Inventory: 1
The death of a child is one of life's most devastating experiences. Since it is contrary to the expected order of nature, most people remain confused about how to deal with their complex feelings. In A Piece of My Heart, therapist Molly Fumia chronicles the death of her infant son and her eventual recovery from it. Readers will empathize with the emotional journey that begins in denial and guilt, moves through remembrance and reconciliation, and ends in resolution and healing.
Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna?
Darcie D. Sims
ID: 29
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Darcie D. Sims, Ph.D., CHT, CT, GMS is a bereaved parent and child, a grief management specialist, a nationally certified thanatologist, a certified pastoral bereavement specialist, and a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. She is the author of Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna?, Footsteps Through the Valley, Touchstones and If I Could Just See Hope. She co-authored A Place For Me: A Healing Journey for Grieving Kids, Footsteps Through Grief, The Other Side of Grief and Finding Your Way Through Grief with her daughter, Alicia Sims Franklin. She also wrote and produced the videos Handling the Holidays and What Color is Dead: Death From A Child?s View as well as authored numerous chapters in professional books and textbooks. Darcie is featured in the award-winning video series ?Good Grief? produced by Iowa Public Television and has been featured in several other videos as well.
When Will I Stop Hurting?
June Cerza Kolf
ID: 28
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
You've lost someone you loved, and now the pain seems unendurable. June Cerza Kolf understands. She, too, has suffered the wound of grief, and as a veteran of hospice work, has counseled many mourning people. In this gentle, empathic book, Kolf leads you through the stages of grief, helping you understand what to expect as time goes on and making you mindful of potential pitfalls such as feeling anger or guilt, dealing with holidays, and experiencing physical distress. No matter what the loss has been, it takes time and heart-wrenching work for the wound to heal. Kolf takes you by the hand and helps you do this painful--yet vital--work. She offers practical and therapeutic ways of dealing with depression and easing pain and gives creative ideas for expressing your love and remembrance. The grief exercises provided in this book are an outlet for working through your pain on your own or in a small-group setting. Most of all, as When Will I Stop Hurting? guides you through the rough terrain of grieving, it will also point you to God, the one true source of healing.
When Going to Pieces Holds You Together
William A. Miller
ID: 27
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Describes the stages of grief, explains why efforts to suppress one's grief are counterproductive, and argues that gries is an opportunity for spiritual growth
Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal
Alan D. Wolfelt PhD
ID: 26
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief process.
Parting is Not Goodbye
Kelly Osmont; Marilyn McFarlane
ID: 25
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Open to Hope, Inspirational Stories for Handling the Holiday
Dr. Gloria Horsley & Dr. Heidi Horsley
ID: 24
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
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(Excerpts from the Introduction) We know the holidays can be a difficult time for you and your family after losing someone you love. Heidi and I-and our entire family-remember well the first holiday season after our 17-year-old-son and brother, Scott was killed in a car accident along with his 17-year-old cousin, Matthew. That first year was particularly challenging. We found that as individuals and family members we did not always agree on how-or even if-we wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. Over time, we have developed our own personal and collective ways of acknowledging our loss and yet also remembering the good times during the holiday season. That's why we are so eager to share with you these heartfelt stories and articles contributed by the wonderful writers at our Open to Hope Foundation. In these pages, you will find wonderful presents for the holidays: The gifts of understanding, hope, and advice that will carry you through the hectic days ahead filled with social gatherings, shopping, and holiday cheer you may not be feeling. When (and how) do you say, "No"? And when do you say, "Yes"? Is it okay to feel and celebrate the joy of the moment? Or, does that make you somehow disloyal to the memory of the one you're lost? Which family traditions do you keep and which are just too painful?
On Death and Dying
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
ID: 23
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth K
Love Lives On: Learning from the Extraordinary Encounters of the Bereaved
Louis LaGrand, Phd
ID: 22
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Almost everyone who has lost a loved one has had the inexplicable feeling that the deceased was somehow present. This is normal for grieving individuals-and a sign that our loved ones never truly leave us. In this important book, Dr. Louis E. LaGrand, a leader in the field of grief counseling, shares insights and true stories of this phenomenon, offering comfort, reassurance, and hope in the face of sorrow. Dr. LaGrand explores the methods that mourners and their support systems can rely on: re-establishing on the future, developing a strong inner emotional life, strengthening a belief that one will never be alone, maintaining a open giving attitude even during the times of great saddness and learning to re-invest in life and find joy once again.
Life Beyond Loss
JJ Hartenstein Mortuary
ID: 21
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Hello from Heaven!
Bill and Judy Guggenheim
ID: 20
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
After-death communications, or "ADCs, " occur when someone is contacted spontaneously and directly by a deceased family member or friend, without the help of any medium. The authors' research shows that these spiritual experiences offer hope, love, and comfort for thousands of people. Included are more than 350 first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been changed and even protected by messages or signs from the deceased.
Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas
Alan D. Wolfelt PhD
ID: 19
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
Healing Grief
Amy Hillyard Jensen
ID: 18
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
This booklet describes various ways grief is expressed by adults after the death of a loved one.
Grieving the Death of a Child
David W. Wiersbe
ID: 17
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
A thoughtful gift for a family--Christian or non-Christian--that has experienced the death of a child. Brief chapters help parents face sorrow, guilt, and anger.
Grief in the Workplace
Rachel Blythe Kodanaz
ID: 16
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Rachel Blythe Kodanaz entered the grief world in 1992 when her husband suddenly passed away, leaving her with her 2-year-old daughter. She spent several years trying to find her path through grief and as a part of her recovery became active in supporting others who were suffering a loss. Rachel has served as the Executive Director and member of the Board of Directors of Heartlight Center, located in Denver, CO. She facilitates numerous groups including a support groups, multi-day workshops, keynote addresses and training classes. In addition, her experience working in large corporations led her to develop and publish material to support the workplace when dealing with a grieving employee or workgroup, with an emphasis on educating managers and co-workers. Rachel authored "Grief in the Workplace" a bereavement resource booklet published by Bereavement Publications, Inc. Rachel presents to corporations, communities, not-for-profit organizations, funeral directors and conferences.
Good Grief
Granger E Westberg
ID: 15
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
In Good Grief, Granger E. Westberg uses gentle wisdom and acute insight into human nature to guide readers through the ten stages of grief: shock, emotion, depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, hope, and finally, acceptance. Good Grief helps readers develop a path through life's small losses as well as the grief experiences that can overwhelm us.
God Knows You're Grieving
Joan Guntzelman
ID: 14
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
This book addresses a contemporary issue and helps readers clearly define and understand its real meaning in their lives. The author uses shared stories and thoughtful insights to demonstrate how others have handled similar issues. She offers practical suggestions and exercises to help readers put the issue in perspective and find solutions that work
For Those Who Live
Kathy LaTour
ID: 13
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
For a Friend

ID: 12
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Choosing to See
Mary Beth Chapman
ID: 11
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. "Would I believe it now, when my whole world as I knew it came to an end?" Covering her courtship and marriage to Steven Curtis Chapman, struggles for emotional balance, and living with grief, Mary Beth's story is our story--wondering where God is when the worst happens. In Choosing to SEE, she shows how she wrestles with God even as she has allowed him to write her story--both during times of happiness and those of tragedy. Readers will hear firsthand about the loss of her daughter, the struggle to heal, and the unexpected path God has placed her on. Even as difficult as life can be, Mary Beth Chapman Chooses to SEE.
After Goodbye
Ted Menten
ID: 10
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
The perfect companion to Gentle Closings, "After Goodbye" explains how to begin life again after the death of a loved one. By taking into account the most common elements of the grieving process, this sensitive guide to moving on teaches the bereaved how to work their way through the pain and back to life. With touching personal accounts and honest answers to difficult questions, "After Goodbye" is a valuable resource for easing the pain of loss.
A Passage Through Grief: A Recovery Guide
Barbara Baumgardner
ID: 9
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
When the loss of a loved one is too difficult to talk about, many people have come to grips with their sorrow through writing. Keeping a journal can be a valuable step in the healing process, especially in the dark of night when grief intensifies and sleep eludes you. Especially when there were still things to resolve. Especially if you didn't get to say good-bye. After her husband's death, Barbara Baumgardner turned to journaling to put her thoughts in perspective and express the things she felt she couldn't talk about. In A Passage through Grief, she guides you in the journaling process and shares writings from other grieving people who have let their feelings flow out onto paper rather than holding them inside. A guide for leaders of support groups is also included in this book.
90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper and Cecil Murphey
ID: 8
Type: Book
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.
My Sister's Picutre
Cathy Arden
ID: 7
Type: Book
Category: Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
Not until the death of Doren, her beloved, frail but protective older sister, did the author, robust but more timid, come to know her through journals, notebooks, poetry and an unfinished novel. Skipping back and forth in time and alternating quotations from the writings of both women, Arden recalls their close though competitive relationship, through a stormy childhood of parental discord, adolescence and young womanhood accompanied by a succession of male companions. The survivor reflects upon the joy and pain the sisters caused each other, and wonders how truthful Doren was in her journals and how much of her real feelings are concealed. Of the more than two years in Manhattan watching her sister succumb, at 33, to the ravages of cancer, Arden recounts that she observed the dying woman with intensity in an effort to "memorize" her. In deeply felt passages and poems she states that she learned that one must "love without taking on someone's pain."
Always, Dee: The Life of Dee Louise Hochstetler
Diane Reedy Hochstetler
ID: 6
Type: Book
Category: Death of a Sibling
Inventory: 1
Fireflies
David Morrell
ID: 5
Type: Book
Category: Death of a child from sickness
Inventory: 1
In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one father's powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, "Fireflies" is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.
Stephen's Moon
Marcia H. Carter
ID: 4
Type: Book
Category: Death of a Child
Inventory: 1
On April 13th, 1997, a tragic accident claimed the life of an eighteen year old boy. He lives on in his mothers heart. From the depths of depression and despair to the inspiring last chapter, A Year and a Half Later, this is a journey you wont want to miss. The road through devastation, anger and soul searching leads to a place of peace, where the author acknowledges that her smile is a gift from God and vows to let that smile be a testimony to others who have suffered loss.
My son My son
Iris Bolton
ID: 3
Type: Audio
Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide
Inventory: 1
This book was inspired by the suicide of Curtis Mitchell Bolton, 20-year-old son of the author, Iris Mitchell Bolton. Mrs. Bolton describes in detail the journey she made from the devastation of losing her son Mitch by suicide to the step by step healing that took place in her life. The book is hopeful and helpful to those who have suffered any loss from death, divorce, or separation. It gives promise of recovery and healing and learning to live with the terrible event. Written in 1983, MY SON...MY SON... is now in its 18th printing. This book ships to countries all over the world, from Australia and New Zealand to England and South Africa. It is being used as a teaching guide for students in colleges from California to Maine. Ministers, priests and rabbis have found the book helpful as they minister to those who have suffered any loss. Originally available only in paperback, the entire book was studio recorded by Iris Bolton in 1995. The audio edition on four cassettes provides an even greater opportunity for those dealing with grief to hear in Iris's own voice the inspiring message of hope, help and health. The book is available in the four cassette audio edition, hardback edition and the paperback edition.
Healing the Grieving Heart: A Program of Hope and Renewal For Those who have Lost a Loved One
Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley
ID: 2
Type: Audio
Category: General Grieving
Inventory: 1
Trails of Tears to Healing Hearts
The Compassionate Friends 30th National Conference
ID: 1
Type: Audio
Category: Compassionate Friends Conference
Inventory: 1