Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
10 best books like Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss (Sameet M. Kumar): Healing Secrets of the Native Americans: Herbs, Remedies, and Practices That Restore the Body, Refresh the Mind, and Rebuild the Spirit, The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science & Spirit Together, The Healing Power of Humor, Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth About Miscarriage, Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart, Slamming Open the Door, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies, Grace, Under Pressure: A Girl with Asperger's and Her Marathon Mom, Life After Loss: A Practical Guide To Renewing Your Life After Experiencing Major Loss, Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Professional
Healing Secrets of the Native Americans: Herbs, Remedies, and Practices That Restore the Body, Refresh the Mind, and Rebuild the Spirit
| Author | Porter Shimer |
| ISBN | 1579123929 |
Learn how Native Americans have used the bountiful gifts of nature to heal the mind, the body, and the spirit. Bestselling Healing Secrets of the Native Americans brings the age-old knowledge and trusted techniques of Native-American healing to a wider audience.
Discover how the Native-American...
The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science & Spirit Together
| Author | Charles T. Tart |
| ISBN | 1572246456 |
Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.
Science seems to tell...
| Author | Allen Klein |
| ISBN | 0874775191 |
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand (Mark Twain)
So what makes a person "funny." This author has a good take on this debate. He believes that bad comics laugh at their jokes and hope the audience joins him in the hilarity. Good comics react to their audience, know their audience...
| Author | Jon Cohen |
| ISBN | 0618277242 |
After his wife lost four pregnancies, Jon Cohen set out to gather the most comprehensive and accurate information on miscarriage – a topic shrouded in myth, hype, and uncertainty. The result of his mission is a uniquely revealing and inspirational book for every woman who has lost at least one pregnancy...
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 1594863814 |
Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that has never been given a chance to heal. This lovely, spiritual book from one of the nation's most trusted grief counselors offers a series of techniques to help heal this pain so readers can lead full and joyful lives. The book not only guides those who have experienced...
| Author | Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno |
| ISBN | 1882295749 |
The author's daughter was murdered just as she was beginning her career as a nurse. The entire very short book is a series of poems describing the death, funeral, trial, and aftermath. All the time I was reading it, I had such a confused feeling because the poetry was so beautiful, but the pain was so real,...
| Author | Therese A. Rando |
| ISBN | 0553352695 |
Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But whether the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Each person's response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate,...
| Author | Sophie Walker |
| ISBN | 1608682250 |
By the time her daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Sophie Walker’s life had unraveled. Her career was in disarray. She couldn’t sleep. She felt hopeless and useless in her role as a mother. Sophie began to seek the things Grace needed — everything from advocacy for her educational...
| Author | Bob Deits |
| ISBN | 0306813149 |
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery sometimes seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But Bob Deits demonstrates that the only way past grief is through it. In this newly revised edition of Life after Loss, Deits offers sound guidance for navigating the uncertain terrain of grief. With practical...
| Author | J. William Worden |
| ISBN | 0826141625 |
Praise for earlier editions:
Worden ... has again provided mental health professionals with a superb guide describing specific principles and procedures that may be helpful in working with bereaved clients undergoing normal or abnormal grief reactions .... an extremely practical...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590305965 |
Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources of problems...
| Author | Jessica Minahan |
| ISBN | 9781612501 |
Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn....
Thinking About You Thinking About Me: Philosophy and strategies to further develop perspective taking and communicative abilities for persons with Asperger ... Autism, Hyperlexia, ADHD, PDD-NOS, NVLD
| Author | Michelle Garcia Winner |
| ISBN | 0970132018 |
This book was written for clinicians who teach social thinking (or pragmatic speech) to children and adults. As a layman though, I got a lot out of it. The big picture is that in order to communicate effectively, the speaker needs to be able to take in the other person's perspective. This is something that...
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
| Author | Deborah L. Tolman |
| ISBN | 0674018567 |
Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual...
Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery
| Author | Mark Coleman |
| ISBN | 1930722559 |
“Nature deficit disorder” has become an increasingly challenging problem in our hyper modern world. In Awake in the Wild, Mark Coleman shows seekers how to remedy this widespread malady by reconnecting with nature through Buddhism. Each short (two to three pages) chapter includes a concrete...
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
| Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
| ISBN | 1879651351 |
This book helped me tremendously when I lost my beautiful mom in 2017, and I still have it very close by me for when I feel the need. Grief is a strange, strange thing. It's different for everybody, and Wolfelt's book helps one see that grief is unique and how to live with it, no matter what form it takes. It...
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief
| Author | Pauline G. Boss |
| ISBN | 0674003810 |
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier...
Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children
| Author | Doris Stickney |
| ISBN | 0826464580 |
How can we answer the many questions young children have about death? Looking for a meaningful way to explain to neighbourhood children the death of a five year old friend, Doris Stickney adapted the graceful fable about the waterbug that changed into a dragonfly. First published under the title "Death"...
Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self
| Author | Rodney Smith |
| ISBN | 1590307291 |
Anatta is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It’s a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, “If I don’t have a self, who’s reading this sentence?” It’s not that there’s no self there, says Rodney Smith....
Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
| Author | Cheri Huber |
| ISBN | 1590302087 |
According to Zen teacher Cheri Huber, we are conditioned to think that if we were only a little better in some way, we would be happy: Life isn't the way it should be and it's my fault! But, Huber says, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life s problems.
The help...
| Author | Richard A. Warshak |
| ISBN | 0061788317 |
Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affection--even, in extreme cases, contact with them. Backed by twenty-five years of experience in helping...
ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
| Author | Russ Harris |
| ISBN | 1572246227 |
Popular myths about love set us up for a struggle with real life. The inconvenient truth is there's no such thing as a perfect partner, all couples fight, and feelings of love come and go like the weather. But that doesn't mean you can't have a joyful and romantic relationship. Through a simple program...
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham
| Author | Barbara Olson |
| ISBN | 0895262746 |
I wrote this review quickly because my wife told me she was sick of looking at Hillary's face on the cover. If she had only read the book. There is so much more of Hillary Clinton about which to be freightened other than her face.
I got this book thinking it would be a behind-the-scenes look at Hillary's...
A Field Guide To Now: Notes on Mindfulness and Life In The Present Tense
| Author | Christina Rosalie |
| ISBN | 0762778563 |
Every self-help book tells us to “be present,” but few succeed in showing us how. With this beautiful book, author and artist Christina Rosalie leads readers to discover how the small and seemingly mundane aspects of daily life can—through a shift in focus—become a springboard for the profound....
The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 0966001990 |
Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must also address the fundamental significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D., renowned for his pioneering contributions regarding the psychological and spiritual aspects of the birth process, now adds invaluable...
