Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
10 best books like Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (Ann Hood): The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation, Here If You Need Me, The Long Goodbye, On Children and Death: A Touching and Inspired about How Children and Their Parents Can and Do.., History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life, A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Goddesses in Older Women, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
Like A Year of Magical Thinking, this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss.
The phone rang. It was my husband Arron telling me that he was at Windows of the World in the World Trade Center. “There’s been a...
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| ISBN | 0316066303 |
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
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| ISBN | 1594487987 |
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| Author | Jill Bialosky |
| ISBN | 1439101930 |
“It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.” —Kim’s journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her...
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| ISBN | 0807072850 |
Buckling herself into the rear of an Agusta A109A, Jennifer Culkin prepares for the moment of lift. The deafening thrum of the helicopter announces the unknown perils and potential havoc that await. A critical care and emergency flight nurse, Culkin treats patients who are most often in mortal danger....
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| ISBN | 0618773622 |
A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0060929235 |
"Knowing which archetypes are stirring and strong in you will help you to come into your own third phase with additional consciousness," says Jean Shinoda Bolen. When Bolen's earlier book Goddesses in Everywoman was first published, it became a surprise bestseller and an unexpected star in the womens'...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
| Author | Catherine Newman |
| ISBN | 0143034774 |
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy, a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the...
| Author | Robin Romm |
| ISBN | 1416567887 |
Read this one in less than a night. Couldn't put it down. I think some people might think it masochistic, but there's something deeply comforting about reading a story that feels so much like my own story - different details, yet same confusing, wrenching struggle. And in the end, she gives good advice...
| Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
| ISBN | 0316027677 |
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...
| Author | Alice Eve Cohen |
| ISBN | 0670020958 |
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible
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| ISBN | 0345503600 |
Journalist Lorna Martin had always thought that therapy was an outrageous con, a fraud designed for people to “whine about their weight/ self-esteem/ alcohol/ commitment problem while blaming their emotionally absent father and/or overly critical mother.” If you have a problem, Martin believed,...
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| ISBN | 1416543058 |
After her mother's death, Alyse Myers covets only one thing: a wooden box that sits in the back of a closet. Its contents have been kept from her for her entire life. When she was thirteen years old her mother promised she could have the box, "when I'm dead. In fact, it'll be my present to you." Growing up in...
The Self-Esteem Companion: Simple Exercises to Help You Challenge Your Inner Critic and Celebrate Your Personal Strengths
| Author | Matthew McKay |
| ISBN | 1572244119 |
Self-esteem is an important part of leading a happy, fulfilling life. How we feel about ourselves affects every aspect of our lives, from the way we function at work, in love, and in sex, to the way we parent, to what we strive to achieve.
The Self-Esteem Companion is a step-by-step guide filled...
| Author | Mary F. Pols |
| ISBN | 0061256927 |
At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be absurd, kind of like not bothering to use a condom during a one-night...
| Author | Roger Rosenblatt |
| ISBN | 0062084038 |
“There is indeed life after death, and Rosenblatt proves that without a doubt.”
—USA Today
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| Author | Nancy Venable Raine |
| ISBN | 0609804197 |
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven years--until...
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| ISBN | 0743476832 |
Jenifer Estess is a beautiful, successful, thirtysomething New Yorker with dreams of starting her own family when she is diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease. Doctors tell her to max out her credit cards and prepare to die. That is precisely when Jenifer starts to live -- dreaming deeper, working harder,...
| Author | Lance Dodes |
| ISBN | 0060958030 |
Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them -- until now.
For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction,...
| Author | Pat Schwiebert |
| ISBN | 0961519762 |
THE GOOD:
1. Illustrations were wonderful.
2. In the edition I have, there are 2 pages of resources for those grieving. Everything from a link to the compassionate friends (for those that have lost a child) to links for those who have miscarried or lost someone to violence. Providing the info...
| Author | Joan Wickersham |
| ISBN | 0151014906 |
When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You’re saying “I’m gone and you can’t even be sure who it is that’s gone, because you never knew me.â€
Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father...
| Author | Gershen Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1575420686 |
First published in 1990, this perennial best-seller has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.
Newly revised and updated, it’s the ultimate resource for any kid who’s ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn’t...
