Life After Loss: A Practical Guide To Renewing Your Life After Experiencing Major Loss
10 best books like Life After Loss: A Practical Guide To Renewing Your Life After Experiencing Major Loss (Bob Deits): Answers to Distraction, The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses, The Healing Power of Humor, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving, A Woman's Book of Life, Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart, Slamming Open the Door, Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies, Grace, Under Pressure: A Girl with Asperger's and Her Marathon Mom
| Author | Edward M. Hallowell |
In Driven to Distraction, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey revealed why millions of adults and children are chronic underachievers, caught up in persistent problems in school, at work, and at home. The cause is not lack of self-discipline, but, rather, an inborn neurological condition, Attention...
The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses
| Author | John W. James |
| ISBN | 0060952733 |
Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process and work towards recovery and happiness.
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong...
| 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...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood...
In Grief Works we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and great loss - and survived. Stories that explain how grief unmasks our greatest fears, strips away...
| Author | Joan Borysenko |
| ISBN | 1573226513 |
A Woman's Book of Life teaches women how to align with the physical changes that occur at every stage of life in order to maximize health and well-being. In the growth of early childhood, hormonal ups and downs, the possibility of childbearing, and growing older are powerful keys to unlocking a woman's...
| 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 | Sameet M. Kumar |
| ISBN | 1572244011 |
Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes...
| 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...
With The Measure of Our Days, Dr. Jerome Groopman established himself as an eloquent new voice in the literature of medicine. In these eight moving portraits, he offers us a compelling look at what is to be learned when life itself can no longer be taken for granted.
These stories are diverse--from...
| Author | Aaron T. Beck |
| ISBN | 1593854765 |
Cognitive therapy of the personality disorders has continued to advance since the initial publication of this landmark work. Now Aaron T. Beck and his distinguished colleagues present an extensively rewritten and updated second edition, incorporating over a decade's worth of significant theoretical,...
| 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 | Leon Wieseltier |
| ISBN | 0375703624 |
Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award
"An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile." --The New York Times Book Review
Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud...
The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others
| Author | David J. Pollay |
| ISBN | 1402776640 |
Twenty years ago, while riding in the back of a New York City taxicab, syndicated columnist and business consultant David J. Pollay had an awakening-and he converted the lesson he learned that day into a life philosophy: By letting other people's “garbage”-their negativity-simply “pass by,”...
The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents
| Author | Alexander Levy |
| ISBN | 0738203610 |
A guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged...
In Spite of Everything: A Memoir
| Author | Susan Gregory Thomas |
| ISBN | 1400068827 |
“For most of my generation—Generation X—there is only one question: ‘When did your parents split?’ Our lives have been framed by the answer. Ask us. We remember everything.”
In this powerful, poignant, and often laugh-out-loud-funny memoir, Susan Gregory Thomas reflects...
The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us about Life After Loss
| Author | George A. Bonanno |
| ISBN | 0465013600 |
We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But in The Other Side of Sadness, George Bonanno shows that our conventional model discounts our capacity for resilience. In fact, he reveals that we are already hardwired to...
Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
| Author | Miriam Greenspan |
| ISBN | 1590301013 |
Nautilus Book Award Winner - Gold
We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of "negative" emotions, this revolutionary...
75 Habits for a Happy Marriage: Marriage Advice to Recharge and Reconnect Every Day
| Author | Ashley Davis Bush |
| ISBN | 1440562253 |
Powerful techniques for strengthening your marriage!
The stresses and strains of life can unravel the tight bond you once had with your spouse, leaving you feeling lonely, frustrated, and unfulfilled. 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage shows you how to restore that intimate and joyful union...
Living with Your Heart Wide Open: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Unworthiness, Inadequacy, and Shame
| Author | Steve Flowers |
| ISBN | 1572249358 |
The way we talk to ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments. These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us feel unworthy and incomplete. What if what you really need is not higher standards for yourself, but greater self-compassion? In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, you’ll discover...
Healing Grief: Reclaiming Life After Any Loss
| Author | James Van Praagh |
| ISBN | 0451201698 |
"Grieving is a natural process. It is through our losses that we can transform ourselves and find new meaning in life." --James Van PraaghJames Van Praagh, who possesses the extraordinary ability to communicate with the heavenly realm beyond our physical world, has changed the lives of millions of...
How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 0316519332 |
From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People comes an inspiring new bestseller that puts human feelings of guilt and inadequacy in perspective - and teaches us how we can learn to accept ourselves and others even when we and they are less than perfect. How Good Do We Have to Be? is for everyone...
How to Break Your Addiction to a Person
| Author | Howard M. Halpern |
| ISBN | 0553382497 |
Are you in love - or addicted? How to know when to call it quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits. Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy? Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on. You are addicted -...
| Author | Sheila Walsh |
| ISBN | 0310219167 |
“I know firsthand the desperation a human soul can feel when every earthly remedy fails. I also know how powerfully God can intervene when we fall on our faces before him.” —Sheila WalshTalented and beautiful, Sheila Walsh seemed to be on top of the world. But behind her public success as a performing...
