"An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." —Foreword Reviews After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a ne...

“Beautiful, poignant, pitch perfect and accessible . . . a road-map for clinicians, patients, family members, and caregivers”—BJ Miller, MD, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice fo...

Old enough to love, old enough to grieveHow can adults better connect with and help grieving kids? It is the question that many parents, teachers, and other caregivers are asking.For generations, other books have attempted to help ans...

The author of The Grieving Child and The Mourning Handbook offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a teenager cope with the death of a parent, friend, or loved one, discussing the emotional impact of bereavement on adolesce...

When your life is shattered in an instant, can conscious and deliberate gratitude and connection to nature help you find joy and hope again?Of Grief, Garlic and Gratitude follows the first thirty months after Sam Francoeur's death fro...

Don’t Forget Me is a survival manual and a lifeline for those whose lives have been touched by substance use and addiction. With the pervasiveness of drugs today and death by overdose as the leading cause of death for people und...

Whether you've lost a loved one, been through a divorce, encountered financial or health hardships, or you're enduring major change, you know grief. If you are hurting, feeling stuck, or looking for a light at the end of the tunnel, t...

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality--and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went...

Drawn from her decades of experience as a hospice nurse, Trudy Harris shares stories that offer an incredible glimpse at what lies beyond this world--ethereal music, colors that did not exist on earth, angels, and loved ones who have ...

Return to the Altar is the story of a family's loss, a death of a son, and how it transformed their view of the world. James Thomas Hartings was given a fatal diagnosis at 21 weeks gestation while still in the womb and his mother, Lyn...

Transitions: A Nurse's Education about Life and Death is a collection of stories from Becki Hawkins's patients over the past thirty years of her career. She started off as a nurse's aide, became a registered nurse, and began her caree...

The death of any dog is hard. The death of a Heart Dog – a canine soul mate – is much, much worse … Even if you've experienced pet loss before, losing your canine soul mate is different. Typical grief advice isn't nearly enough....

"Heiman's wordcraft elevates her memoir to poetry. . . . with both deep tenderness and heartbreaking honesty. She raises valuable questions about the choices we all make along the hard road of loving another human being." �...

This book is a simple book of love written for you, a mom pregnant again after loss, from other loss moms who have been where you are now. In the pages of this book, we share letters of love from our hearts to yours with the hope that...

Upon Stella Rose's death, her best friend, Abby, moves to rural Vermont to take care of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Olivia. But Abby struggles to connect with Olivia and she soon finds guardianship of a headstrong teenager daunting...

Use your creativity to channel your grief into healing...This artfully designed playbook combines the benefits of creative expression and journaling (reflection through writing), makes space for grieving and enables healing. This boo...

Russian novelist and philosopher, Fyodor Dostoevsky, wrote: "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing." Life was going precisely as planned when Jim and Karol Holmes began praying, "We are your servants, Lord. Use u...

Neither Jessica Stout nor her father, Walter Horak, set out to publish this book, both authors wishing foremost and forevermore that there had never been a reason. Yet love for a little boy compelled them. FEEL ME BRAVE began as a b...

My soul began to sink into a primal dark abyss of fear inside of me. Waves of nausea swept over me as the front door closed with a resounding thud. The house had grown silent, but as I turned away from the door my thoughts began explo...

I don’t really know where I’ll end up tonight, but I do know where I wind up is where I am meant to be. That was the last Facebook post made by Matthew “Dreamer” DeRemer before the thirty-one-year-old was killed in a horrific ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 NAUTILUS SILVER BOOK AWARD in the category of Death/Dying, Grief/Loss."Lamentations of The Sea" is a lighthouse in the dark for anyone who has known loss. This collection of personal essays, reflections, p...

     David Kessler, one of the most renowned experts on death and grief, takes on three uniquely shared experiences that challenge our ability to explain and fully understand the mystery of our final days. The first is "visio...

No one likes to think about death and many are not ready for it, either as the patient or a loved one. And yet, the dying process is oftentimes marked by an array of diverse and confusing questions that can catch anyone off guard. Wha...

As a bank executive, Herb Knoll was known as a man who could get the job done. But when Knoll lost his wife to cancer he found few resources that could help him recover. And the more he learned about the plight of widowers, from high ...

Personal possessions tell a beautiful story of a person's life. Finding Peace, One Piece at a Time helps to capture and share these stories by providing tools for how to thin, repurpose, and redistribute these possessions so they con...

Help your child navigate feelings of sadness and loss with 100 unique, activity-based approaches that help them manage their childhood grief in a healthy and constructive way. The loss of a loved one is a complex, confusing experie...

Story is a crucial component of navigating the roller coaster that is grief. The beautifully written stories and poems in the Just a Little More Time anthology share tender last moments with loved ones, muse about what happens once we...

I don't want to scare you, said the primary care doctor. But you need to see the neurosurgeon. Tomorrow. Jenny Lisk had no idea what was coming. At forty-three, she had a lot going on. A full-time job. Two young kids. A home to mana...

"Powerful words, won in the conflict between heartbreak and healing."--Dr. Dan L. GriffinOffering hope and healing for the brokenhearted, The Tender Scar addresses the heart-wrenching pain of losing a spouse. Working from jo...

A grieving mother finds comfort in mysterious signs following the tragic death of her son in the inspirational true story, Stay Gold.When Linda A. MacDonald and her husband received the news that no parent ever wants to hear, there se...