Healing Grief

You're not alone in mourning—it's possible to move past the denial, start the healing, and memorialize your beloved pet, even if the pain of loss feels overwhelming. Losing a pet can feel like losing a member of your family. Their absence leaves an ache in your heart that may seem impossible to heal. Do you continually find yourself asking, "Why is this so hard?" Are you desperate to explain your pet's loss to your child, but you just can't find the right words? Do you yearn to hold onto their memory, yet unsure how to keep their spirit alive?

"I'm sorry, it's cancer." Four words with the power to upend your entire existence and thrust you into an emotional whirlwind. As these words unravel, they unleash trauma, chaos, and threats to every facet of life—from health and body image to relationships, job, career, and future dreams. Thoughts swirl: What did I do so wrong to deserve this? How am I going to survive? Is my body going to be mutilated?

When Kelsy’s husband, Heath, dies tragically in a sudden accident, she is left grappling with overwhelming grief. But through the pain, she discovers that love transcends even death. Navigating life without the one she thought she’d spend forever with, Kelsy confronts profound loneliness, heartbreak, and the weight of unanswered questions. She struggles to find a way to heal, often feeling lost in the darkness of her sorrow. Through resilience, family and community support, and signs from Heath, Kelsy embarks on a journey of healing–finding hope and connection in the most unexpected places.

As young adults, John and Kara—father and daughter—had much in common. Avid sports lovers. Life of the party. Abiding faith in God. And a diagnosis that blindsided and benched them: aggressive, terminal cancer. John and Kara battled their diseases with cutting-edge medical treatments. Both had countless prayers lifted on their behalf. Both believed in a powerful, loving God who could heal. Yet one lived and one died. How can we accept both endings as from the hand of God? Did one person have greater favor? Deeper faith?

Navigating the Storm: A Guide to Grief and Healing Navigating the Storm offers a compassionate and insightful guide to those grappling with the complex emotions of grief. This touching book provides a roadmap for navigating the unstable seas of loss and discovering the path to healing.

A Daughter’s Kaddish recounts Sarah Birnbach’s year-long odyssey through an unfamiliar world of prayer. To honor her beloved father following his death, Sarah undertakes a Jewish mourning ritual historically reserved for males—despite her father’s request that she hire a male to do so. A novice worshipper and single working mother, Sarah commits to re-citing the Mourner’s Kaddish every morning and evening in the presence of a quorum of ten people (a minyan) in synagogue for eleven months.

In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning - a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.

Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill shares a collection of poems crafted as the world went into lockdown, tackling themes such as mental health and loneliness, and the precarity of hope. Through the life cycle of a star, she invites the listener to feel connected to the universe, taking us on a journey through the five stages of grief to the five stages of hope.

Have you lost all desire to do anything with your life now that your spouse is gone? Are you so worried about the future that you’re having anxiety attacks? Do you find it hard to eat right and sleep well because you’re drowning in sorrow? You may have gone back to work to occupy your mind, but you realize you can’t focus. You feel empty and hollow inside, and it feels as though you’re sleepwalking through life. You just can't bear the sadness, constantly yearning for his or her presence.

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You Are Not Alone takes listeners into Debbie's personal journey of grief, from the first gripping chapter, when her husband dies unexpectedly in her arms. Throughout the audiobook, Debbie takes listeners by the hand and offers them gentle insights and suggestions for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss and the spiritual journey that led her to know love never dies.

In Healing a Shattered Soul, Mindy Corporon invites listeners to join her search for inspiration and hope after domestic terrorism took the lives of her father and son. Headlines about the attack circled the world. Now, Mindy takes listeners inside her family’s struggle, the support of their faith community, and her commitment to courageous kindness. A popular speaker, teacher and writer, Mindy has dedicated her life to encouraging kindness, faith, and healing in congregations, companies, and communities.

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You’ll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience - a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams.

Two years after Marilyn loses her fiancé to cancer, she becomes a Christian and marries Henry, joining him in a worldwide ministry that leaves little time for family or personal reflection. When her old grief resurfaces, she’s shocked by the tsunami that rips through their lives. Intensive counselling fails to bring healing, and when Henry writes a public letter that decimates their churches and spins them out of fellowship—and lifelong employment—she faces an emotional and spiritual reckoning that challenges her to the core.

In "Healing Hearts: Stories of Hope and Resilience," listeners embark on a poignant journey through the intricacies of grief and the transformative power of healing. This heartfelt compilation features a collection of inspiring narratives that resonate with individuals of all ages, offering solace and understanding in times of loss. Each story is a testament to the human spirit's capacity to endure, adapt, and ultimately thrive in the face of adversity.

Many people today do not have a traditional or formal way to address grief. Yet people who experience the death of a loved one crave emotional support and ways to work through their grief and loss. The Grief Train provides a gentle, spiritual, non-religious approach to grief. You never know when The Grief Train will stop at your station, however you can be ready and accepting when it arrives.

Are you undergoing the loss of a loved one - a spouse, a partner, a parent, a child, or someone else - who had been a vital part of your life and about whom you cared deeply? Has your loss left you sad, confused, angry, and full of questions that seem to have no answers? If any of these examples describes your current situation, chances are you are experiencing grief - a natural, normal response to encountering any major loss.

I Had A Brother Once is a brilliant, genre-defying work - both memoir and epic poem - about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss. Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp.

Tackling one of life’s greatest mysteries, Rabbi Ben Kamin examines the diverse ways we mourn the death of a loved one. Drawn from his 40-plus years of counseling the bereaved, Kamin uses parables and stories to provide thoughtful insights on how to encounter and endure heartbreaking loss. He further stresses the importance of addressing grief in the present moment or risk harming our physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Waking Up from My American Dream tells the story of Susana Perez, a woman who immigrates to the US with her toddler and her 10-month-old baby, looking for a fresh start. Unsure and afraid, Susana leaves her hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay, and reunites with her husband, who left them a few weeks earlier for work prospects in the United States. What she doesn't realize is that she brought with her a heavy load that will take her 20 years to unravel. A poignant story of loss, grief, love, and hope.