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A POWERFUL STORY HELPING ABUSE AND TRAUMA VICTIMS FIND HEALING
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, [...] plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV)
When we go through life's storms, we can feel life has been unfair, taking us through deep valleys of despair and damaged emotions with no direction on how to get out of the dark places. What have we done to deserve this abuse, pain, suffering, and heartache? The...
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What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?
Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today's world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.
Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and literary primary sources such as Scottish folktales, children's...
24) My Bond
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For inspirations towards subjects on death, love, trauma, and the unspoken parts of the psyche. In hopes to open the mind towards the unseen with regard. To give respects for a personal relationship with bonds that all life creates.
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"I'd been up 35 hours, flown across the world, and watched my sister die ... it was time for a hot American shower, a bed, and a new day."
In this true story, Kim Green takes readerson her journey through two simultaneous stories that inspire great faith. In 2015, she walked intimately through her sister's last months of fighting cervical cancer and two international adoptions. Finding Home is a tale of standing on faith and the Word of God,...
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If you are feeling bewildered and lost in grief, this book is the companion you need. At some stage, everyone experiences grief. Whether you consciously experience it or not is a choice.
Within the pages of Conscious Grief, you'll discover ideas on how to support yourself as you grieve through self-care practices, therapies, modern mourning, spiritual seeking, and navigating triggers that abound in the sensitive mourning state.
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The probability of death is 100% and people need to be ready for that inevitability. The how and when is not a choice for most people and the consequences of the actions they take before that happens are already determined, yet the subject of death (particularly one's own mortality) is avoided by almost everyone. A Heartbeat Away reveals the importance of being ready and provides the facts of actions' consequences through true, personal stories, professional...
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The doctor told Wanda that she had a fourth of an ovary and that child bearing was not an option. God had promised her that she would have children. Was God going to lie to her? God fulfills His promises. After years of waiting and trying, Wanda brought five children into this world and was a mother just as was promised. With the miracle came an unwanted price since we have come to believe that Heaven has a price on some of its most cherished of gifts....
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Keane peels back layers with unbridled intensity, refusing to be mild in her exploration.
From Palemode comes Dream Station, the captivating poetry collection by author Adeleine Keane. Unveil the depths of the human psyche as Keane fearlessly explores themes of love, loss, pain, and desire, offering a profound journey into the fractured realms of the mind.
Immerse yourself in the vivid tales of trauma intricately woven through lyrical storytelling...
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That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a hypnagogic terrain of grief and mortality. Audibility is a primary theme of this collection-what can be heard, what is obstacled, and what remains unheard. Many of the poems included in the collection try to hold spaces open for the slipperiness of the heard...
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Alyson Franz suffered a painful loss and didn't know how she could ever get past it. Being a therapist herself at the time, she tried many traditional approaches with no success. This led her to a journey of healing, transformation, and a complete change in her professional work. She has now rebuilt both her life and her professional practice based on what she has learned on this journey, which includes extensive training in transformative healing...
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Can the ghost of Nora's mother help her stop her dad from getting remarried? It's been three years since Nora's mother died, and while she and her sister, Patsy, want her father to be happy again, they're not ready for him to remarry. They especially don't want him to marry "the Tooth"-the woman with the overbite who could soon be their stepmother. While the girls try to upend their dad's relationship, they soon find themselves competing for the new...
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When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community labeled the Handlers' situation a bizarre coincidence. By the...
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An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed.
One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, "You can make mummies with it!" while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days...
35) The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery
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A Jewish Book Award Finalist
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your cells that you're coming to the end of your tour of duty," he said, "what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do...
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The national bestseller and undying testament of a wife's love for her husband as he embarks on the fight of his life On a story assignment in France for the New York Times Magazine, Martha Weinman Lear has just escaped tourist-infested Cannes for a quiet pension in the hills behind the Riviera when she gets the call from New York. Her husband has suffered a massive heart attack and is in the hospital. Harold Lear, a fifty-three-year-old urologist...
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"Le deuil d'un vivant" explore les émotions vécues après la perte d'un être cher. Il traite du désespoir, de l'attente, du rejet et de la douleur psychologique et physique ressentie à la suite de cette éprouvante expérience. Chaque poème offre un éclairage sur le processus de deuil et la complexité des sentiments qui l'accompagnent.
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Hélia Sarasin a baigné dans l'écriture depuis sa plus tendre enfance. Cet exercice...
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"After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going...
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Discover How to Heal and Overcome Grief Fast! Today only, get this bestseller for a less than the cost of a sandwich! Read it on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or other device. You're about to discover a logical and proven method on how to overcome grief and deal with loss fast. Millions of people suffer with grief and bereavement and ruin their personal life as well as their careers trying to deal with it the best they can. Most people realize...
40) Always With Me
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Always With Me guides those who have lost a loved one how to discover happiness once again.
Losing a loved one to death, especially after a long-term relationship, can be exceedingly painful. The intense emotions can feel overwhelming and even paralyzing at times. The joy one once felt seems to be gone and impossible to recover. The days are dark, and the nights are even darker. Always With Me works to show those who have lost a loved one that there...
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