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"Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen's mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the people we've lost to come back to us when we need them the most"--Dust...
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"When your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss are common, they're not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don't know how to support you. What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate what comes next, such as: Coping with a postpartum body without...
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Though one in four pregnancies ends in loss, miscarriage is shrouded in such secrecy and stigma that the woman who experiences it often feels deeply isolated, unsure how to process her grief. Her body seems to have betrayed her. Her confidence in the goodness of God is rattled. Her loved ones don't know what to say. Her heart is broken. She may feel guilty, ashamed, angry, depressed, confused, or alone. With vulnerability and tenderness, Adriel Booker...
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Larissa Whitcomb flounders in the wake of unimaginable losses. Forget about coping, she can barely function. Life as she has known it evaporates, and she isolates herself from work and friends. Aware, however, of the dangers of her bleak existence, she reluctantly agrees to embark on a unique business opportunity, which becomes Larissa's journey of grieving.
She will be challenged by unwelcome encounters, confronted by emerging secrets and emotions,...
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All the Love: Healing Your Heart and Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss is a book dedicated to supporting and empowering women and their partners through miscarriage, stillbirth, and other types of pregnancy loss.
The book is part memoir, part therapy session; combining the personal story of Kim Hooper, who endured four losses, with therapeutic insights from Meredith Resnick (a licensed social worker) and Dr. Huong Diep (a board-certified psychologist)....
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One Strong Girl is a mother's vivid account of what it is like to lose her daughter, India, to a rare debilitating disease. The story is a bold description of what it means to deal with deep sorrow and still find balance and beauty in an age steeped in the denial of death. At ten, India climbed the highest on the rope at gymnastics, yet by sixteen was so weak she was unable to even dress herself. The narrative follows the six-year fight for answers...
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A son's story of the debilitating illness, anorexia nervosa, that his single mother suffered from throughout his childhood. The mother and son formed a close bond and the boy's description of their life together is, filled with both joy and sadness. Damian Cooper has written a straightforward, honest and loving account of his boyhood, set against a poignant parallel story of his mother's excessive focus on body image, food, diet and exercise.
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Lucinda Weatherby's son Theo was born with trisomy 13, a rare chromosomal disorder with fatal birth defects. Rather than take extraordinary steps to prolong what would have been a short and painful life, Lucinda and her husband made the decision to let Theo go. In this brave and beautiful memoir, Lucinda tells the story of Theo's life-a life that was bathed in the love of the family members and close friends who gathered in the predawn hours to welcome...
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A mother's love is stronger than cancer. And so is yours.
• Has your child or another loved one been, diagnosed with cancer or a serious illness?
• Have you ever found yourself struggling to keep up hope as a caregiver?
• Have you been looking for ways to better, navigate and be, heard in the health-care system?
If you answered yes to any of these, then you are not alone on this journey.
Based on her own experiences of her family's journey...
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Grief and mourning are taboo subjects in our society, so how do you interact with the world when yours has been ripped apart by loss? Until recently, people's struggles with mental health and parenting were also hidden topics. Connie Easterbrook was raised in a Dutch household, where sterkte (meaning 'strength') was the way to resolve life's problems, but life didn't bless her with an easy path.
Connie was a sensitive and anxious child who, despite...
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This is a story of resilience, determination, and hope. Never give up hope.
This is a true account of a little girl who saved Katie Fasciano's world and changed everyone else's world for all who met her.
Come on this journey with Katie to meet her daughter, Elizabeth, and have her change your world too. Elizabeth was and still is a force to be reckoned with. Her love brightened the lives of all who encountered her.
Let Katie show you Elizabeth's...
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Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases.
When Sheila Collins's best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to accompany her through what turned out to be the last fourteen days of her life, she didn't know that the experience was preparing her for what lay ahead with...
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"The day after my son died, a bird walked into my house. That tiny sparrow wouldn't leave me alone. It kept knocking on my door and showing up in my dreams, until it finally sparked a light within me, and then, something so much more."
Linda Broder loses everything when her fifteen-year-old son Brendan dies- her music, faith, and hope. When a bird walks into her house, her husband and children embrace it as a sign from Brendan. But not Linda, she's...
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Comment surmonter la perte d'un enfant?
Après une enfance malheureuse, un mariage précoce voué à l'échec, et une seconde union impossible, Annie espère que la vie va lui sourire un jour. Mais le soir du 1er janvier 2002, un incendie se déclare dans le centre-ville de Chambéry, alors que sa fille Delphine, alors âgée de 18 ans, et son ami Jonathan s'y trouvent afin de souhaiter la bonne année à la mère du jeune homme.
Le lendemain soir,...
16) Ghostbelly
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Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman's personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong--ending in a stillbirth--and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It's also Heineman's unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays. Does this sound unsettling? Of course. We're not supposed to hold and caress dead bodies. But then again, babies aren't supposed to die. In this...
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What do 33% of American women have in common? They've experienced abortion.
You might be one of these women. Or maybe it's your friend, sister, coworker, or the woman sitting next to you at church. Regardless, post-abortive women are in pain, and at some point, most will experience post-abortion syndrome (PAS), a form of post traumatic stress disorder. But they may never talk about it. Many are silent because they are filled with shame, grief...
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When Barbara Legere's son Keven begged her for permission to die, she refused.
Keven had spent half his life struggling with substance use disorder while his single mom battled courts, healthcare companies, rehab facilities and mental health professionals in an effort to protect him. As their relationship strained Keven's drug use progressed, Legere was forced to accept and love Keven as he was in their limited time together-two years before he took...
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When the exuberant expectation of a baby's birth abruptly ends, whether by miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death, the loss leaves a mom with unimaginable grief. Navigating the depth of emotions and handling the responses of others can be a daunting task. Author Kindra King shares her journey through her first pregnancy that began on a mountaintop of joy and ended in a valley of grief and deep despair.
Through it all, she...
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When Stephanie is told she's pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice… After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill. If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die. If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live. My husband...
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