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Meditations for Survivors of Suicide

Author : Joni Woelfel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878718754
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Meditations for Survivors of Suicide written by Joni Woelfel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profoundly moving and empowering: in this book, Joni Woelfel bestows hope and courage on those seeking guidance, solace, and support in the wake of losing a loved one to suicide. Each of the forty meditations contains a Scripture passage and a prayer from the heart of one who knows the pain and hope of those left behind. As a heartbroken mother of a son lost to suicide, Woelfel helps survivors to unlock and unblock their grief-torn hearts, allowing hope to gently seep in by allowing God to support and befriend them. Starting life over, Woelfel gently guides survivors through their tremendous pain and suffering to a renewed sense of purpose and passion in life.

Passing Reflections

Author : Kristen Spexarth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990883401
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Passing Reflections written by Kristen Spexarth and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unfinished Conversation

Author : Robert Lesoine
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 193700645X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Conversation written by Robert Lesoine and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfinished Conversations is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his best friend, Unfinished Conversations will help readers through the process of reflecting on and affirming the raw immediacy of survivors’ emotions. Each short chapter focuses on a different aspect of the author’s experience as he transforms his anger and guilt to understanding and forgiveness. Licensed psychotherapist Marilynne Chöphel brings her professional background to Robert Lesoine’s deeply personal story to create an accessible path to self-directed healing based on mindful awareness and sound clinical practices. Readers work through their own grieving and healing process with end-of-chapter exercises and activities. An appendix and website, unfinishedconversation.com, provide additional resources to survivors. The tools and techniques in Unfinished Conversations will help readers release past trauma, honor their relationship with their lost loved one, and find greater perspective, meaning, and well-being in their lives.

Grieving a Suicide

Author : Albert Y. Hsu
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830883975
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Grieving a Suicide written by Albert Y. Hsu and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards "Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions—anger, guilt, grief, and despair. Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Could we have done anything to prevent it? How can we go on? Many also wonder if those who choose suicide are doomed to an eternity separated from God and their loved ones. Some may even start asking whether life is worth living at all. After his father's death, Hsu wrestled with the intense emotional and theological questions surrounding suicide. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, he draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. For those who have lost a loved one to suicide and for their counselors and pastors, this book is an essential companion for the journey toward healing. This revised edition incorporates updated statistics and now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Author : Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher : Companion Press
ISBN 13 : 1879651580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Your Suicide Grief written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

Responding to Suicide

Author : Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1646800125
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Responding to Suicide written by Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Resource of the Year award and a first-place award in resources for ministry from the Association of Catholic Publishers and a third-place award in pastoral ministry books from the Catholic Media Association. Many pastoral leaders feel ill-equipped to respond to the turmoil of those who face the death by suicide of a loved one. Responding to Suicide is the first book written for Catholic leaders that takes a holistic approach to understanding suicide and ministering effectively in its aftermath. More than a dozen leading mental health practitioners, Catholic theologians, and pastoral care experts share how best to respond to suicide as leaders in parishes, schools, healthcare systems, and other Church settings. The book offers a cross-disciplinary approach that provides basic information about the central role of mental health in suicide and clarifies Church teaching about suicide, funerals and burials for those who have died by suicide, and their afterlife. The National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that suicide was the tenth most common cause of death among Americans of all ages in 2017 and the second leading cause of death among fifteen to twenty-four year-olds. Death by suicide is usually sudden, often violent, and frequently comes at the end of a long and difficult struggle with a mental illness. Heaped on top of that is a social stigma that leaves loved ones in shock and often burdened with shame. Responding to Suicide addresses common concerns of the bereaved following a suicide: skepticism that Catholic leaders will understand; fear that the Church teaches that their loved one is in hell; and belief that they will find little if any support in the Church. More than a dozen contributors from across the spectrum of Catholic life provide rich guidance rooted in firsthand experience of suicide loss. Contributors include Deacon Ed Shoener, Bishop John P. Dolan, Msgr. Charles Pope, Leticia Adams, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, and clinical experts in the field of mental health and suicide. They share personal stories of loss, grief, hope, and healing, and clear up misconceptions about Church teaching. They offer practical takeaways for pastoral leaders: dos and don’ts when talking about suicide guidance for preaching and planning funerals information on the role of mental illnesses in suicide resource lists for those who grieve as well as for your own professional development suggested protocols for ministering to a school or parish community following a suicide ideas about forming parish outreach ministries to the bereaved that address the needs of suicide loss

Gone to Suicide

Author : Ann Clark
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532086466
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Gone to Suicide written by Ann Clark and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide is soul-crushing for the survivors left behind. This book gives an inside look at the heartbreak and devastation that a Colorado mother experienced after her seventeen-year old son took his own life. By being transparent about her son Brant’s tragic death, author Ann Clark hopes to help reduce the silence, shame, and secrecy that surround suicide. Included in this book are examples of Clark’s efforts to warn others about the role that marijuana played in her son’s death. Brant had a psychotic break immediately after heavy use of THC-marijuana, and this led to his suicide. All the most important, yet widely under-reported scientific research about marijuana is documented in this book. There is a national crisis when it comes to mental health care, and the suicide rate in the US continues to increase at an alarming rate. Gone to Suicide offers many insights for both suicide prevention and for survivor recovery. Through the author’s relentless pursuit to understand her son’s death, this book explores the transformative power in extreme loss, and reveals how pain and sorrow can actually lead us to our purpose for being alive.

Healing the Hurt Spirit

Author : Catherine Greenleaf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977824403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Healing the Hurt Spirit written by Catherine Greenleaf and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Your Grief

Author : Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher : Companion Press
ISBN 13 : 1879651351
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Your Grief written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

Mindfulness and Grief

Author : Heather Stang
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN 13 : 178249782X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Mindfulness and Grief written by Heather Stang and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without proper support, navigating the icy waters of grief may feel impossible. The grieving person may feel spiritually bankrupt and often the loss is so painful that the bereaved may lose faith in what they once held dear. Mindfulness meditation can restore hope by offering a compassionate safe haven for healing and self-reflection. While nobody can predict the path of someone else's grief, this book will guide the reader forward through the grieving process with simple mindfulness-based exercises to restore mind, body and spirit. These easy-to-follow meditations will help the reader to cope with the pain of loss, and embark on a healing journey. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of grief, and the guided meditations will calm the mind and increase clarity and focus. Mindfulness and Grief will help readers to begin the process of reconstructing the shattered self that is left in the wake of any major loss.

Yoga for Grief and Loss

Author : Karla Helbert
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857011634
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Yoga for Grief and Loss written by Karla Helbert and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as grief is an experience that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually, yoga sustains and strengthens us in all of those same areas. This book demonstrates how the principles and practices of yoga can help relieve symptoms of grief allowing those who have experienced loss to move toward wholeness, peace, and feelings of connection with loved ones who have died. Exploring the six branches of yoga, the book shows how each branch can support us through grief in different ways whether it be the self-reflection of Jnana Yoga, the spiritual devotion of Bhakti Yoga, the meditation of Raja Yoga, or the physical postures of Hatha Yoga. We are shown how to begin and sustain a personal practice, both on and off the yoga mat, which helps us to cope with and move through grief on multiple levels. Expressive and experiential exercises are included to help explore each of the branches of yoga and find ways to put the tenets of each branch into real life practice.

The Understanding Your Grief Journal

Author : Alan D Wolfelt
Publisher : Companion Press
ISBN 13 : 1617223107
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Understanding Your Grief Journal written by Alan D Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion workbook to the second edition of Dr. Wolfelt's bestseller Understanding Your Grief helps you explore the many facets of your grief through guided journaling. After you read a section in Understanding Your Grief, the journal asks you questions about what you've just read. It invites you to consider, clarify, and jot down your thoughts and feelings.A good grief journal is a safe place of solace—somewhere you can express yourself no matter what you are experiencing. If you're grieving a death or a significant loss of any kind, this journal and its companion text will help you understand and embrace your grief, actively mourn, and move toward healing. You'll find that the journal can also be used to help honor the person who died and/or work through any lingering relationship issues. As you express your emotions in this journal, you will feel them beginning to soften as well as become more integrated into your ongoing life. Write as much as or as little as you'd like. Even just a little engagement with this journal will help you befriend your grief and give you healing momentum.

Happier Endings

Author : Erica Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451649231
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Happier Endings written by Erica Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist, Inspired Jewish Leadership, presents an affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death that guides readers on an emotional journey that draws on the wisdom of myriad spiritual traditions, covering a range of practical issues while sharing compassionate, illustrative stories.

The Unique Grief of Suicide

Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 147597003X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Unique Grief of Suicide written by Tom Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Unique Grief of Suicide: Questions and Hope “A gem of a book. Tom Smith is one of those unique human beings who, through a labor of love and generosity, is able to turn a personal tragedy into an opportunity to reach out and help many others. His work combines scientific data and personal feelings admirably.” —Luis A. Giuffra, MD, PhD; professor of clinical psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine “Very painful questions arise following the death by suicide of a loved one. Tom Smith’s moving book identifies and organizes these questions—a very helpful thing in itself. But more, the book provides answers and also acknowledges that some questions do not have easy answers, reflecting accurately and sympathetically the experiences of those bereaved by suicide.” —Thomas Joiner, PhD, author of Why People Die by Suicide and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Florida State University With warmth and understanding, Tom Smith draws on his own grief following the suicide of his twenty-six-year-old daughter, Karla, and provides helpful resources and coping strategies to those grieving a suicide. Both practical and comforting, The Unique Grief of Suicide guides and educates those dealing with the different facets of suicide and offers a safe harbor within the storm of grief.

Making Peace with Suicide

Author : Adele Ryan McDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982117620
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Making Peace with Suicide written by Adele Ryan McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful, provocative, and compassionate, Making Peace with Suicide: A Book of Hope, Understanding, and Comfort takes a good hard look at the world-wide phenomena of suicide. This book is designed for anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide and felt that sucker punch of grief; for anyone who is in pain, walking unsteadily, and considering suicide as an option; and for anyone who works with, guides, or counsels those feeling suicidal and/or suffering the profound grief from a suicidal loss. Making Peace with Suicide includes stories of courage, vulnerability, and steadfastness from both the survivors of suicidal loss as well as the unique perspective of the formerly suicidal. It offers shared wisdom and coping strategies from those who have walked before you. It explores the factors leading to suicide and the reasons why some do and some don't leave suicide notes. Making Peace with Suicide sheds light on the phenomena of suicide vis-a-vis our teens, the military, new mothers, as an end-of-life choice, and asks if addiction is a form of slow suicide. It provides a seven-step healing process and opens the door to consider suicide and the soul, the heart lesson of suicide, and the energies of suicide. If suicidality has impacted your life, Making Peace with Suicide is a must-read. You will be guided through the unknown territory, given insights to allow understanding, stories to help you heal, and ways to make peace with a heart wide-open. Making Peace with Suicide is good medicine for the body, mind, and soul.

Artful Grief

Author : Sharon Strouse
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452568022
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Artful Grief written by Sharon Strouse and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artful Grief is a decade long study of loss by an art therapist, in the aftermath of her daughters suicide. On October 11, 2001, Sharon received a phone call in the middle of the night from the New York City Police Department telling her that her seventeen year old daughter Kristin, had fallen from the roof of her college dormitory. So began her journey into the labyrinth of unspeakable grief. As the ?rst year drew to a close she found no comfort in traditional therapy, and no solace in spoken or written words. In surrender to her inner art therapists guidance, she began to create collages. She cut and tore images out of magazines and glued them on various size paper. The paper was a safe and sacred container, receptive to the fullness of emotion, story and paradox. Over time there was transformation and healing. Artful Grief A creative roadmap through violent dying and grief. A dose of soul medicine for survivors. A way to retrieve the pieces of a shattered life, with paper, scissors and glue. A resourceful tool for those suffering with complicated grief and/or PTSD. A place for the unspeakable to be seen and heard. A process to quiet the mind and open the heart. A visual experience of trauma images as illustrations of hope. A sample of prophetic dreams and meditations that are illuminating. A heartfelt sharing of intimate secrets for understanding and compassion. A surprising grief gift that is inspiring.

Soul Light for the Dark Night

Author : Patrick Flemming, M.Div., L.C.S.W., C.S.A.T.
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1732067317
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Soul Light for the Dark Night written by Patrick Flemming, M.Div., L.C.S.W., C.S.A.T. and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready for your spirit to feel whole again? These daily meditations provide trauma survivors with a daily experience of the emotional and spiritual healing that our soul wants for us. Based on years of counseling and spiritual coaching of survivors of all types of traumas, the authors invite readers to a daily healing and empowering connection to their soul and conscious contact with their Higher Power. Peace is an inside job. Deep within you is an indestructible soul whose voice and divine spark can speak the wisdom you need and prove the light to illuminate even the dark places and shadowy paths of your life journey. For many survivors of trauma and abuse, the emotional and spiritual wounds of your trauma can drown out the small, still voice of your soul and block your view of its light. But the dark night of trauma is no match for the inner light of your soul.