Mourning Loss

Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet.

A revelatory book about death and mourning by a psychotherapist faced with sudden bereavement. When Juliet Rosenfeld’s husband dies of lung cancer only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death as a psychotherapist is turned on its head. As she attempts to navigate her way through her own devastating experience of loss, Rosenfeld turns to her battered copy of Freud’s seminal essay 'Mourning and Melancholia'.

One person, two perspectives on grief. Plunged unexpectedly into widowhood at just 49 years old, psychotherapist Sasha Bates describes in searing honesty the agonisingly raw feelings unleashed by the loss of her husband and best friend, Bill. At the same time, she attempts to keep her therapist hat in place and create some perspective from psycho-analytic theory. From the depths of her confusion she gropes for ways to manage and bear the pain....

Wenn der Partner stirbt, ist der Abschied ein Prozess, der weit über das Begräbnis hinausgeht. Sind Sie plötzlich alleine, werden Sie mit Gefühlen konfrontiert, denen Sie noch nie begegnet sind und deren Intensität Sie schier zu überwältigen scheint. Heilung erfahren Sie nicht, wenn Sie Versäumtes bedauern, wütend über die Ungerechtigkeit des Verlustes werden oder einfach nur möglichst lange trauern, um intensive Liebe zu beweisen. Wichtig ist, den Trauerprozess aktiv zu durchleben und die Zeit zu nutzen, um die Weichen für ein erfülltes Leben danach zu stellen.

Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one’s capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy - and necessary - following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon, illustrating devotion as both the primary cause of grief and a crucial source of emotional recovery. Exploring the essential principles of love as well as the reasons behind it, this heartfelt handbook makes it possible to embrace a trying but vital process.

Der Verlust des letzten älteren Familienmitgliedes ist besonders hart. Es ist dann so, als ob keiner mehr da ist, der Schutz und Rückendeckung geben kann. Nach dem Tod der Eltern bleiben Schmerz, Trauer und Ängste, aber auch die Chance, zu größerer Freiheit zu finden und individuelle Lebenskonzepte stärker in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Dieser einfühlsame Ratgeber bietet Ihnen Hilfestellung auf Ihrem Weg.

Podróż na południowe krańce Europy jest klamrą, w której Wojciech Czuchnowski, znany dziennikarz i publicysta, pomieścił intymny pamiętnik o odchodzeniu swojej żony. Z wnikliwością, precyzją i bez znieczulenia prowadzi nas przez stadia miłości, kryzysów ich związku i choroby. Ta książka jest w równym stopniu bolesna, jak i niosąca nadzieję.

Hope for Widows is a valuable source of encouragement and comfort as you adjust to your new normal and reimagine an active life with purpose in your future. With personal reflections, questions, and expressions of gratitude, join Marilyn Nutter in recognizing God's faithful presence in details and unusual places. Having lost her husband of forty-two years, Marilyn offers sixty-five brief readings that cover widows' universal experiences with empathy and poignant honesty.

Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning contains the collected poetry works of Michelle Scalise, dedicated to her husband and author, Tom Piccirilli.

This audiobook is about my personal still-birth experience; an experience that was both harrowing and beautiful in equal measure. An experience that I would, never-in-a million-years, have predicted I could heal from, but I did. I really wanted to believe that life could be so pointlessly cruel, I mean where’s the sense in a full-term baby dying? But, I just couldn’t ignore all the selfless, kind, and all-round beautiful people that came my way. Those people paved my way to recovery.

Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey's life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER, her whole world - everything she knew and believed - was shaken to the core. Katie, her 19-year-old artist daughter, had been in a car accident and would not survive. How does a family live in the wake of devastating tragedy? When darkness colors every moment, is it possible to find light? Can God still be good, even after goodbye?

Ao trazer a morte da mãe para o centro deste relato, Noemi Jaffe, uma das principais vozes da literatura brasileira, expõe de forma brutal as feridas do luto e o que é possível fazer para vivê-lo. Em fevereiro de 2020, aos 93 anos, falece Lili, sobrevivente do Holocausto, mãe de três filhas e viúva. Sua doença vinha se estendendo há tempos, mas isso não faz com que a dor de sua partida seja menor. A banalidade da causa, "uma infecção nos pés", é confrontada com um sentimento de descrença. Como é possível que aquela que sempre esteve presente não exista mais?

El dolor ha cruzado el umbral de tu casa, y se sienta un habitante abatido en tu corazón. Te lamentas como alguien a quien se le ha escapado toda la alegría. El semblante entristecido, la fuente abierta de lágrimas, los suspiros hinchados, el rechazo a los discursos innecesarios, las reflexiones, demuestran claramente tu carga de angustia. Este dolor debe provenir de una causa muy aplastante.