Títulos en Duelo y pérdida

Preparing to Die is for anyone interested in learning how to prepare for death from a Buddhist perspective, both spiritually and practically. It is also for those who want to learn how to help someone else who is dying, both during the time of illness and death as well as after death.

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression.

Un avvincente Seminario, in cui grandiosi miti d'Oriente e d'Occidente ci parlano con tutto il loro illuminante potere immaginativo. Ci insegnano il perché di nascita e morte. Prometeo e Hiranyakashipur: cosa li accomuna? Entrambi scardinano l'ordine cosmico, entrambi nel tentativo di scampare alla morte. Ma la morte ha la sua funzione nel progetto universale, tanto che possiamo affermare che, senza capire la morte, non possiamo capire la vita. Senza comprendere l'utilità della morte ai fini della nostra evoluzione, saremo come tanti Prometeo e Hiranyakashipur.

"Capire la morte per capire la vita" è il titolo di un audiolibro proposto dal Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta e tratto da una conferenza tenuta da Marco Ferrini, esperto di cultura vedica e direttore del Centro. Nell'Aula Magna di Giurisprudenza di Bologna alla presenza di un pubblico di oltre quattrocento persone, in un evento suggestivo di grande rilievo e spessore, Marco Ferrini ha presentato il tema della morte nella prospettiva dell'eternità, spiegando la morte come un momento di passaggio da una dimensione di esistenza ad un'altra.

"Psicologia del ciclo della vita" è il titolo di una conferenza tenuta a Bologna il 4 aprile 2009 da Marco Ferrini, esperto di cultura vedica e direttore del Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta. I nostri sogni ed istanze ideali appaiono lontani, utopici, irraggiungibili, se limitiamo la realtà dell'esistenza ad un solo segmento: dalla nascita alla morte.

"Superare la paura della morte" è il titolo di un audiolibro proposto dal Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta e tratto da una conferenza tenuta da Marco Ferrini, esperto di cultura vedica e direttore del Centro. Dai grandi testi sacri della sapienza indiana si apprende una verità che può apparire sconcertante: la paura della morte si supera... morendo. Il dipartito si rende conto che la morte è uno spavento indotto, perché c'è stata, ma egli non è morto. E scopre che i problemi non risolti in vita sono quelli che perdurano anche dopo la morte.

Obiettivo della collana è attingere dalle antiche storie dei Veda stimoli e suggerimenti per trasformare...

La nuova serie di Bigiotteria allarga lo sguardo sulle giovani generazioni: insieme a Gianluca Nicoletti ci sarà anche suo figlio Filippo. Ogni settimana parleranno di studi, sogni e aspirazioni, disegneranno scenari utopici e si scambieranno opinioni su come è cambiato il mondo. E alla fine verrà da chiedersi: chi dei due è l'adulto?

Film, libri, polemiche: Francesca Sforza inaugura una serie ispirata al "Gabfest" americano, e lo fa insieme a protagonisti del giornalismo e dei media. Insieme racconteranno spicchi di storia italiana, mescolando il presente con il passato, senza cinismo, con un po' di sano disincanto.

Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life.

Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But with great compassion, Life After Loss offers a way through it. Drawing on numerous first-hand stories and almost 40 years of pastoral counseling to inform his advice, Bob Deits provides helpful exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief.

After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day of the Dead celebrations, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards.

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.

Lydia and Theo face the unthinkable when a knock at the door changes everything. As Lydia begins to pick up the pieces, not every part of the puzzle fits together as neatly as it did before, and as she discovers the truth about the man she loves, she finds herself stuck in limbo. Lydia is faced with an impossible choice.

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

With great insight and originality, author Holly Parker shows you how to use denial as a buffer in the face of tragedy, and how to know when your use of denial has become counterproductive or detrimental. Through a fresh, comforting, and clinically-based perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique.

How much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives? As a nine-year old, Elizabeth Farnsworth struggled to understand the loss of her mother. On a cross-country trip with her father, the heartsick child searches for her mother at train stations along the way. Even more, she confronts mysteries: death, time, and a mysteriously locked compartment on the train. Weaving a child's experiences with memories from reporting in danger zones like Cambodia and Iraq, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster.

Most people know of the Near Death Experience (NDE), but very few have heard of the The Shared Death Experience (SDE). The SDE is similar to the NDE except that it occurs not to the person who is dying, but to a loved one who is physically well. That person could be sitting right next to their loved one, sitting across the room, or even across the globe unaware of the impending death of someone they love.

Contrary to what many people believe, we can recover from emotional trauma relatively quickly and completely on our own. Keep Pain in the Past explains a process that allows you to do most, if not all, of the recovery on your own. It will teach you the critical skill of treating psychological wounds and help you identify and face this pain and find closure on your own. Use Dr. Chris Cortman's easy-to-master method to remember, feel, express, release, and reframe the trauma that has been haunting you for years.

When Lu Spinney's 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead.... " He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss - Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness - that unravels over the next five years.