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Help through the mourning process using self-healing methods. How do you make sense of loss and tragedy? After the sudden and devastating loss of her infant daughter, Lily Dulan (a marriage and family therapist, psychotherapist and certified yoga teacher) meditated, prayed, and ruminated on the only thing she had left-her baby girl's name. In Lily's courage to address and move through her pain, she developed a cross pollination of proven psychological...
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Haunted by the spirit of her mother and memories of the past, a grieving woman struggles to make sense of her world, her unfulfilling marriage and her estrangement from family members before uncovering an ancestral inheritance that reveals why her brother was separated from the family at a young age.
4) Plot Twist
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In life, the one thing we can be certain of is that it will never remain linear for long. One minute, everything is as we know it. Next minute - PLOT TWIST - we find ourselves scrambling for a foothold, trying to make sense of the shifting landscape and the changing tides. Sometimes, these deviations from the course can be the shift we needed to push us into our next chapter of life. Others can throw us off balance, send us spiralling into despair...
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Muchas de las personas que hemos tenido que enfrentar una pérdida de salud, nos hacemos esta pregunta: ¿Por qué a mí? En diversas ocasiones la respuesta más exacta puede ser la más triste y lastimera, y es que simplemente no hay una contestación a lo ocurrido, por lo cual uno debe de emprender un laborioso recorrido que le permita llegar hasta la aceptación.¿Por qué a mí? es un libro deja ver que, aunque no exista una respuesta, sí hay...
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May is a carefree girl who likes nothing better than singing along to the Spice Girls, roller blading and eating cheese on toast with her friends. But then May's family moves to a new town and May's world is turned upside down.
Out of the blue, an imaginary friend Anna comes along to help May out of her predicament, but Anna's 'solutions' only isolate May from her family and lead her into unhealthy habits.
Author Maddy Tyers knows only too well...
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In 1954, Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia's gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women's rights and downtrodden miners, but soon feels confined by the expectations of society. Fueled by vengeance and seduced by the sirens of illegal adventure, Sunni masterminds a stunning heist that echoes through the underworld and leaves a trail...
8) Grieving The Loss Of Your Baby: Coping With The Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Chil
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Grieving The Loss Of Your BabyCoping With Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Child Through Miscarriage, Still Birth When the joy of your child's birth shockingly escalates into the grief of miscarriage or stillbirth, perhaps early infant death, there are not enough words that can soothe the pain and loss.You feel sad, shocked, and devastated?But there is still hope for the future and with God's comfort.Grieving the loss of your baby is never...
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The death of a spouse may not kill us, too, but it will certainly feel that way. Grappling with loss is never easy. Grieving in isolation (and through a global pandemic) may be the hardest thing you'll ever do.This book is a message from one survivor to another. You are not alone on this lonely path. Discover how I learned to cope-- and hopefully you will, too. How I am muddling through and discovering a new me from the empty shell that was left behind--...
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Put The Past Behind And Forge Ahead Take a moment to think about how past mistakes and experiences might be letting you down right now. Let your mind create a better future for you. That would be amazing and life-changing, wouldn't it? This opportunity would be either of the following:Let yourself feel good about yourself again.Improve your self-esteem.Instead, adopt a 'What is' approach and focus on the present and what you can change.Make a fresh...
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The Heavy Bag by Sarah Surgey is a children' s book that looks at the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Sadness and Acceptance. Children can experience grief for a loved one; a pet; or even moving on from a school or area. When all of the emotions build up inside a child' s mind, they can feel like they are carrying around a huge weight with them.‘ The Heavy Bag' follows a little girl called Enid who has...
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The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
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Nadie nace preparado para morir y muy pocas son las personas que finalmente realizan una adecuada preparación. Somos una sociedad que vive de espaldas a la muerte por puro terror. Rehuimos hablar de ella, nos prohibimos reflexionar sobre ella y negamos por sistema su existencia, por si, de esta manera, logramos evitarla.
Asumámoslo, nacemos, crecemos, asistimos a un sinfín de sitios por compromiso a los que no queremos ir, algunos insensatos nos...
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Widowed at 40 and left to raise her four-year-old twin sons alone, the author is thrust into confronting an unexpected and traumatic reality. With heart, hope, and a focus on healing, she shares, through 12 lessons, how she successfully navigated the highs and lows of her grief journey to raise her sons as a single mother. With heartfelt emotion and a unique ability to capture the intricacies of life's moments, Franka's insights about the grief journey...
15) Hypnosis for Grief and Loss: A Comprehensive Guide to Coping With Loss, Grief Feeling, Pains and Fin
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Shock, pain, suffering and sorrow. Such life events will stop us in our tracks. Unfortunately life is over and we are overcome by feelings such as rage, sorrow, disappointment and heartbreak. It's all right!... That you're not all right! Have you ever felt humiliated or confused by a society that seeks to "resolve" grief?Grief needs a cure that is NO more than LOVE needs a cure. Instead, we will understand that there is absolutely no "right way" to...
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Grief is a natural response to loss. It might be the loss of a loved one, relationship, pregnancy, pet, job, or way of life. Other experiences of loss may be due to children leaving home, infertility, and separation from friends and family. The more significant the loss, the more intense the grief is likely to be.Grief is expressed in many ways. It can affect every part of your life; your emotions, thoughts and behavior, beliefs, physical health,...
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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
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PTSD is now a well known malady, generally brought about by experiencing a traumatic event or events. During the time of the Vietnam war, this phenomenon was poorly understood, and often misinterpreted. As a result, many of the soldiers who suffered from this were often classed as malingerers, cowards, or once back in civilian life, were treated as if they were simply mentally ill, crazy. Mental illness was still stigmatized in those days, so that...
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By exploring the ethics of resisting and accepting death from a Christian perspective, Nancy Duff encourages Christians to talk about death in the context of Christian faith. Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life helps readers use biblical and theological perspectives regarding death to inform end-of-life decisions, consider where they stand on withdrawing life support and supporting death with dignity laws, and take steps in planning for their...
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Wolves, swans and French angelfish are among a litany of species which mate forever. If a partner dies, the survivor literally becomes a lost soul and gives up all interest in continuing alone.Humans, too, often embrace the mindset of there being only one true love allotted to each of us per lifetime. In Eve's Diary by Mark Twain, an inconsolable Adam weeps at her grave with the words, "Wheresoever she was, there was Eden." Even if Eve had been the...
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