Relationship Loss Grief

In this compelling story of selfless courage and compassion, Cheryl Lafferty Eckl chronicles how she and her beloved husband, Stephen, moved beyond merely coping with his imminent death from colon cancer to approaching it as one of life's great mysteries—a process of profound learning, mutual devotion, and deep personal growth. Writing with stunning candor and immediacy, Cheryl takes the listener on a journey that plumbs the depths of loss and soars to the heights of the soul's release-even providing a powerful glimpse into the Other Side of life.

In The Purpose of Grief, author Virgil Brewer offers a compassionate and deeply personal guide to navigating one of life’s most painful experiences. Drawing from profound personal loss, he reframes grief not as something to avoid, but as a vital, teachable skill that helps us move forward, grow, and heal. With raw honesty and insightful reflections, this book reveals how grief, change, and loss—though unwelcome—are inevitable parts of being alive. And in learning to understand them, we learn to live more fully.

Theo Boyd had always been close to her parents. Her father was a Texas peanut farmer, rancher, and preacher; her mother, deaf from a young age, was the glue that held them all together. Then one summer day in 2019, everything changed when Theo’s mother died in a tragic accident on their family farm. As Theo began to process this loss, her marriage started to unravel, adding another painful layer to her grief.

Pet grief is still grief – this book about pet grief recovery offers emotional validation and practical guidance for your path toward healing. Pet loss is one of life's hardest emotional experiences. The empty food bowl that will never need filling again. The leash hanging silently by the door. The sudden stillness in spaces once filled with purrs, barks, or gentle footsteps. When we lose a pet, we lose not just an animal, but a piece of our daily life, a source of unconditional love, and a cherished soul who shared our most intimate moments.

In this mini-audiobook collection of essays, prominent atheist author Greta Christina offers secular ways to handle your own mortality and the death of those you love. Blending intensely personal experience with compassionate, down-to-earth wisdom, Christina (Coming out Atheist and Why Are You Atheists So Angry?) explores a variety of natural philosophies of death.

Through unapologetic truth-telling, Cry, Yell, Repeat offers comfort for anyone who’s tired of being told how to grieve. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll rage—and most of all, you’ll realize it’s okay to feel every messy, contradictory, and uncomfortable emotion that comes with loss.

Despite the sadness, Peggy’s book offers hope, humor, inspiration, and a poignant love story that will lift your spirits with promise, helping you believe there is more to this life than you can see and that love never dies.

For listeners navigating grief, spiritual seekers questioning the nature of love and the afterlife, or anyone who’s ever whispered I miss you into the void—this book will speak to you.

Mathildas Sohn stirbt 34 Tage nach der Geburt. Und mit ihm alles, was vorher war. Seither geht sie wie durch Scherben. Sie funktioniert – ja, aber nur aus Gewohnheit. Man schickt sie fort, in die Sonne, ans Meer, als könnte sie die Trauer einfach zu Hause lassen. Mathilda kehrt zurück in den Alltag, auf die Bühne, spricht fremde Texte, trägt fremde Gesichter – und verliert sich darin selbst.

This Is How I Spell Grief offers a no-nonsense guide to dealing with the loss of a loved one by sharing the author's story of recovery from the double loss of his mother and father. This guide eschews expert opinions in favor of common sense, addressing the listener in a down-to-earth fashion to show them they're not alone, and that they can become an expert in their own grief.

You know how the total preoccupation of coping with loss and dealing with grief affects every aspect of your being and your life? This will gradually lessen over time as you slowly move forward at your own pace through the stages of grief. Even if it takes a second at a time, then a minute or a day, one day you will notice that there is a bright blue sky, and you will feel less consumed by grief.

How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

This book will allow you to embark on a three part journey of untangling your grief and loss, so that you can begin mending your heart from within. Loss is hard to cope with, even more so when it's a loved one that departs your company, leaving your heart to grieve all alone.

Pregnancy should be a time of joyous anticipation, but those forty weeks can feel very different if you are one of the many women who has previously lost a baby. In Pregnancy After Loss, Zoe Clark-Coates has created a compassionate and essential guide to lead you, day by day, through your pregnancy.

Jede Art von Verlust löst Trauer aus. Ob wir den Tod eines lieben Menschen beklagen oder uns beispielsweise vom Partner trennen, unseren Job verlieren oder ob wir mit einer lebensbedrohlichen Krankheit konfrontiert werden - woher sollen wir die Kraft nehmen, diese Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, ohne an ihnen zu zerbrechen? Praxisnah und mit der großen Erfahrung dieser beiden außergewöhnlichen Bestsellerautoren findet der Hörer kompetente Hilfe und Unterstützung. Er lernt, wie er sein Herz öffnen und ein erfülltes Leben führen kann.

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame-our taboo desires and our grief.

Dieses Buch ist ein sanfter und aufrichtiger Ratgeber, der von Herzen kommt und dir dabei helfen soll, den Verlust zu verarbeiten, inneren Frieden zu finden und die einzigartige Bindung zu würdigen, die du zu deinem Hund hattest.

Innerhalb weniger Tage macht Hannah Kaiser die schönste und die schlimmste menschliche Erfahrung: die Geburt ihrer Tochter - und ihren Tod. Wie überlebt man so etwas? "So schlimm wie dieser Schmerz gerade ist, so groß muss später auch die Kraft sein, die ich daraus schöpfen kann." Mit unglaublicher innerer Stärke und emotionaler Weisheit berichtet Hannah von den Wegen ihrer Trauer und der Dankbarkeit für die Liebe, die sie erfahren darf. Ein ermutigender Bericht über den Umgang mit dem Tod.

Knapp draws on his own experience of losing both his first and second wife to cancer to provide insight into some of the unhelpful responses we often make, and presents a repertoire of ideas on how to be a genuine friend and helper to a grieving person. Various chapters in the book deal with different kinds of losses, including the trauma of losing a spouse or child, divorce, loss of pets, and other losses that we sometimes fail to recognize need to be grieved over if healing is to occur.

Grief: An Emotional Roller Coaster takes a somber, difficult subject and describes it in easy-to-understand terms. From definitions to how to cope, all of the basics are covered. This audiobook features examples of what to say and even what not to say to a grieving friend. A section for those close to and seeking to care for those in grief is included.