Títulos en Duelo y pérdida

'A magnificent, tender book' Independent 'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian 'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light...

In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of 30 years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts 20 conversations she has had with the dying. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective on and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful....

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cultlike privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER An MIT astrophysicist reinvents herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth, in this “bewitching” (Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book Review) memoir...

Der Verlust eines geliebten Menschen oder Lebewesens, des Partners, des Ehemanns oder Lebensgefährten, ist für jeden von uns ein Schicksalsschlag. Ganz gleich, ob jung oder alt, ob die Beziehung schon sehr lange oder erst kurz bestand, ob die Partnerschaft noch "glücklich wie am ersten Tag" war oder Liebe und Leidenschaft über die Jahre hinter die Anforderungen des Alltags zurückgetreten ist: wenn ein wichtiger Mensch verstorben ist, erschüttert dies Körper, Geist und Seele.

The death of a parent is one of the most significant events of life, one of those points of no return after which life can never be quite the same again. Many people are shocked by how overwhelming the experience of the death of a parent can be. The grief and grieving process is powerful and difficult to deal with.

Craig Beck is a master hypnotist with 20 years of experience and is also a respected timeline therapist and NLP master practitioner. He understands what makes people tick and, more importantly, how to access and remove the erroneous programs that cause us problems every day. Designed to quickly help you reduce and remove the overpowering urge to chew on your nails and fingers, use this powerful and proven hypnosis program to help deal with the grief of losing someone you care about.

Open Your Heart to a Life Filled with Abundance, Free of the Fear of Death Conscious Aging is an unforgettable learning session with Ram Dass, the former Harvard professor whose teachings about love, compassion, and sacrifice have received international acclaim. On this live recording, Ram Dass...

The work of David Feinstein has been recommended by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Stephen Levine, Jeanne Achterberg, and others. On Rituals for Conscious Dying, Feinstein combines traditional rituals, guided imagery, and spiritual insights to show how we can turn the fear of death into an affirmation...

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.

"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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays.

In this gripping and wide-ranging essay, Nadelson deals with his grief after the premature death of a close friend, coupled with the joy accompanying the birth of his first child. Everything he now does - from caring for his daughter to wandering the streets of his run-down neighborhood in Oregon - starts to feel like a betrayal. Nadelson looks over his life, thinking about his run-in with a Soho cab driver, a college Halloween party spent with his dead friend, and his favorite Chekhov story, "Grief".

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann's father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver - cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying.