26 Best Death, Grief, Bereavement, Family & Relationships Books
Death, Grief, Bereavement, Family & Relationships is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Death, Grief, Bereavement, Family & Relationships audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 26 Death, Grief, Bereavement, Family & Relationships audiobooks below.
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The 20-Month Legend
- By: Steve Tate
- Narrator: Steve Tate
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.8(88 ratings)
4.8(88 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAs 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 findsAs 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 to defeat the odds of survival. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their twenty-month-old son Hayes.
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An Energy Healer’s Book of Dying
- By: Suzanne Worthley
- Narrator: Suzanne Worthley
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.67(4 ratings)
4.67(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA compassionate guidebook to the energetic stages of dying and how to offer practical support at each stage of the transition back to spirit * Explains the nine energetic levels of dying and what is happening during each stage, including how beliefA compassionate guidebook to the energetic stages of dying and how to offer practical support at each stage of the transition back to spirit
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* Explains the nine energetic levels of dying and what is happening during each stage, including how belief systems and energy blocks can affect the death process
* Reveals what the dying person may see and experience, what to watch for in each stage, and specific ways to support your loved one during each phase
* Explores the grieving process and offers helpful strategies for moving through it
Written by a highly skilled intuitive energy worker, this compassionate guide reveals what is happening energetically during the transition back to spirit and details how to provide support in any phase of losing a loved one: before death, during the dying process, and afterward. Taking readers step-by-step through the nine energetic levels of dying, author Suzanne Worthley explains what is happening at each level or dimension energetically, what to watch for in each stage, and specific ways in which we can support our loved ones through their transition back to spirit. For each of the nine stages, she describes what the dying person may see and experience, including the stages of transition at which people undergo the familiar elements of near-death experiences, such as entering a tunnel, conducting a life review, or encountering angels, guides, loved ones in spirit, or a bright light. She explores what family members and friends may see and experience, such as spirit energy, and what they can do to offer practical support and emotional solace to their loved one.
Examining how life force energy works as well as what Akashic records and soul contracts are, Worthley shares hospice case studies for each level of transition, so caregivers can see how belief systems and energy blocks in specific chakras affect the death process and why it is important to clear energy blocks like fear, anger, or guilt during life if possible. She explores the grieving process and offers helpful strategies for moving through it as well as “at-a-glance” reference tables of the nine stages and related healing strategies designed to be referred to by those holding vigil.
Shedding light on one of the great mysteries of existence, An Energy Healer’s Book of Dying offers a compact yet comforting guide to support you through this emotional, grief-filled, and exhausting time and help you bring solace to your loved one during the transition back to spirit. -
The Sudden Loss Survival Guide
- By: Chelsea Hanson
- Narrator: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 19, 2020
- Language: English
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4.62(43 ratings)
4.62(43 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHealing after loss When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes,Healing after loss
When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn’t know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson’s The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who’ve experienced a life-changing loss.A proactive, intentional approach
While you cannot control losing a loved one, you can consciously guide your own recovery. Through the application of simple, proactive practices, The Sudden Loss Survival Guide will empower you to overcome the darkness and anxiety of grief.Action-based tools
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This guide includes heart-lifting prompts and action steps that guide you towards re-engaging in life and discovering deeper meaning. Through Hanson’s grief healing practices, this book delivers the essential answers and tools needed to survive, cope, and heal from the devastating impact of sudden loss. -
Lemons on Friday
- By: Mattie Jackson Selecman
- Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.47(623 ratings)
4.47(623 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWhen your life is suddenly full of questions, how do you move forward in faith? After being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson’s daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a future that didn’t include herWhen your life is suddenly full of questions, how do you move forward in faith?
After being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson’s daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a future that didn’t include her young husband and the life they dreamed of together.
Ben Selecman passed away twelve days after suffering a traumatic brain injury–and three weeks before celebrating his first anniversary with his wife. Suddenly, twenty-eight-year-old Mattie had to find a way to reconcile herself with a good God, even when He did not give her the healing miracle she prayed for.
In¬†Lemons on Friday,¬†Mattie Jackson Selecman invites you to walk with her during the first years of grief following Ben’s tragic death as she grapples with her loss and leans on a steadfast God.
Mattie wrestles with questions that we’ve all faced in the midst of grief and loss, including:
- How did I get here?
- Will this always hurt?
- Who am I now?
- Where can I find the strength to keep going?
Lemons on Friday¬†will give you the encouragement you need to see life and love in a brand new light, no matter what you’re facing.
Praise for Lemons on Friday:
“Mattie’s story carries you through a valley of unbearable heartbreak, and in the very next moment, you are experiencing an ocean of peace that is the heartbeat of Jesus. Her honesty and vulnerability in this book are a beacon of light to any heart that has experienced total darkness. The courage and wisdom expressed through her words will inspire hope in readers, no matter their walk of life.”
—Lauren Akins, New York Times bestselling author of Live in Love
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Turn My Mourning into Dancing
- By: Henri Nouwen
- Narrator: Henri Nouwen
- Length: 3 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: March 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.43(817 ratings)
4.43(817 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDIn times of suffering, simple answers often ring empty and hollow–so how can you find hope in hard times? Learn how to survive the difficult seasons with the comfort and of God’s constancy. With sensitive, practical advice, Henri NouwenIn times of suffering, simple answers often ring empty and hollow–so how can you find hope in hard times? Learn how to survive the difficult seasons with the comfort and of God’s constancy. With sensitive, practical advice, Henri Nouwen gently points you towards a life that is grounded in God’s companionship and rooted within eternal hope.
In this newly formatted edition, Turn My Mourning into Dancing discusses five movements we experience during hard times:
- From Our Little Selves to a Larger World
- From Holding Tight to Letting Go
- From Fatalism to Hope
- From Manipulation to Love
- From a Fearful Death to a Joyous Life
Nouwen has discovered that healing begins with taking our pain out of its toxic isolation and seeing our sufferings in communion with all humanity and all creation. He teaches us that our little lives participate in something much larger. Turn My Mourning into Dancing is compelling reading for:
- Those looking for growth and insight amid life’s hard and harsh moments
- Anyone grieving and searching for reassurance
- Anyone who has experienced a loss or betrayal
Though it may not last forever, grief is a gradual, organic process that changes a person permanently. Nouwen guides you during your hard times toward answers and hope–hope that allows you to dance even through the darkest night.
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14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two Week Goodbye
- By: Lisa Goich
- Narrator: Lisa Goich
- Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 23, 2016
- Language: English
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4.41(93 ratings)
4.41(93 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother’s life – and ultimately – death. 14 Days is a story ofWhen Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother’s life – and ultimately – death. 14 Days is a story of parental loss, and how to lovingly, bravely and gracefully let go of a hand you’ve been holding your entire life. From a child’s first breath to a mother’s last, this memoir shows how closing that circle can be a celebration of this unbreakable bond.
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Supernormal
- By: Meg Jay
- Narrator: Meg Jay
- Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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4.33(769 ratings)
4.33(769 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDClinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying;Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.
Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them.
Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only “How do they do it?” but also “How does it feel?”
These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company.
Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether — and how — the good wins out in the end.
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On Grief and Grieving
- By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Narrator: David Kessler
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.33(1948 ratings)
4.33(1948 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDTen years after the death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book combines practical wisdom, case studies, and the authors’ own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps usTen years after the death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book combines practical wisdom, case studies, and the authors’ own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps us live with loss. Now with an introduction by Maria Shriver and an additional resources section.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed On Grief and Grieving, which looks at the way we experience the process of grief.
Just as On Death and Dying taught us the five stages of death–denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance–On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation, and healing. This is “a fitting finale and tribute to the acknowledged expert on end-of-life matters” (Good Housekeeping). -
Finding Meaning
- By: David Kessler
- Narrator: David Kessler
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.33(1948 ratings)
4.33(1948 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn this groundbreaking and “poignant” (Los Angeles Times) book, David Kessler–praised for his work by Maria Shriver, Marianne Williamson, and Mother Teresa–journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage:In this groundbreaking and “poignant” (Los Angeles Times) book, David Kessler–praised for his work by Maria Shriver, Marianne Williamson, and Mother Teresa–journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.
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In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion. Now, based on hard-earned personal experiences, as well as knowledge and wisdom gained through decades of work with the grieving, Kessler introduces a critical sixth stage: meaning.
Kessler’s insight is both professional and intensely personal. His journey with grief began when, as a child, he witnessed a mass shooting at the same time his mother was dying. For most of his life, Kessler taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about end of life, trauma, and grief, as well as leading talks and retreats for those experiencing grief. Despite his knowledge, his life was upended by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. How does the grief expert handle such a tragic loss? He knew he had to find a way through this unexpected, devastating loss, a way that would honor his son. That, ultimately, was the sixth stage of grief–meaning. In Finding Meaning, Kessler shares the insights, collective wisdom, and powerful tools that will help those experiencing loss.
“Beautiful, tender, and wise” (Katy Butler, author of The Art of Dying Well), Finding Meaning is “an excellent addition to grief literature that helps pave the way for steps toward healing” (School Library Journal). -
The Dead Moms Club
- By: Kate Spencer
- Narrator: Kate Spencer
- Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.32(1280 ratings)
4.32(1280 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDKate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn’t a weepy, sentimental story, but ratherKate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn’t a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome grief and come out on the other side.
An empathetic read, The Dead Moms Club covers how losing her mother changed nearly everything in her life: both men and women readers who have lost parents or experienced grief of this magnitude will be comforted and consoled. Spencer even concludes each chapter with a cheeky but useful tip for readers (like the “It’s None of Your Business Card” to copy and hand out to nosy strangers asking about your passed loved one).
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I Will Love You Forever
- By: Cori Salchert
- Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.31(174 ratings)
4.31(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn August 2012, a baby girl was born without a right or left hemisphere of her brain. Doctors said she was essentially in a vegetative state, unable to see or hear–that there was no hope for her. Relinquished by her birth parents under theIn August 2012, a baby girl was born without a right or left hemisphere of her brain. Doctors said she was essentially in a vegetative state, unable to see or hear–that there was no hope for her. Relinquished by her birth parents under the state’s Safe Haven Law, this two-week-old unnamed baby girl found her way to Cori and Mark Salchert’s home. Despite the infant’s grim medical diagnosis, Cori knew she couldn’t allow this beautiful baby girl to spend her few days on Earth alone and unloved. Cori took the baby girl home and named her Emmalynn.
I Will Love You Forever reveals one woman’s decades-long quest to find healing and redemption after the accidental death of her sister as a child. Since 2012, God has used hospice babies–those left to live and die without family to care for them–to mend Cori’s broken heart. Bringing these fragile hospice babies into their home, Cori and her family have promised not only to hold them briefly, until their last breath on this side of heaven, but to love them forever and always. The loving actions of Cori and her family show that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength.
Cori’s poignant story will strengthen your faith and touch your heart.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the End
- By: BJ Miller
- Narrator: BJ Miller
- Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.3(613 ratings)
4.3(613 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life. “There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life.
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“There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.”
Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but controllable. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you’re sick. Get advice for how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you’d hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don’t worry: if anyone gets snippy, it’ll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one’s social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy.
An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is “a book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for this other phase of life” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese). -
Life Lessons
- By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Narrator: David Kessler
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.27(1466 ratings)
4.27(1466 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTen years after Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s death: “An inspiring…guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death” (Kirkus Reviews)–the beloved classic now with a new introduction and updated resourcesTen years after Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s death: “An inspiring…guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death” (Kirkus Reviews)–the beloved classic now with a new introduction and updated resources section.
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Is this really how I want to live my life? Each one of us at some point asks this question. The tragedy is not that life is short, but that we often see only in hindsight what really matters.
In her first book on life and living, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross joined with David Kessler to guide us through the practical and spiritual lessons we need to learn so that we can live life to its fullest in every moment. Many years of working with the dying have shown the authors that certain lessons come up over and over again. Some of these lessons are enormously difficult to master, but even the attempts to understand them can be deeply rewarding. Here, in fourteen accessible chapters, from the Lesson of Love to the Lesson of Happiness, the authors reveal the truth about our fears, our hopes, our relationships, and, above all, about the grandness of who we really are. -
Last Beautiful Girl
- By: Samantha Chase
- Narrator: Carly Robins
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 06, 2020
- Language: English
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4.24(511 ratings)
4.24(511 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDKyle Jones loves women. All women. And just because he’s seen all his siblings settle down it doesn’t mean he has any intention of following in their footsteps. After all, he’s happy to keep going through life like it’s oneKyle Jones loves women. All women. And just because he’s seen all his siblings settle down it doesn’t mean he has any intention of following in their footsteps. After all, he’s happy to keep going through life like it’s one big party, and getting tied down to someone would just get in the way of having a good time. Or so he thought until the one woman he could never forget returns to Magnolia Sound. Sydney Albright never thought she would become a mother by losing her sister and brother-in-law. But for the sake of her niece, she’ll do whatever it takes, even move into the money pit that is her sister’s home. But the good thing about small towns is there’s always someone ready to help. She just never thought Kyle would be the one to land on her front porch to help with the renovations. Sydney vows she’ll never fall for Kyle again–the past is in the past and that’s right where it should stay. Never mind that she doesn’t even have the time to think about a relationship. But Kyle has other plans. He always said she was the first beautiful girl he loved and now he’s determined to also make her the last.
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The Grieving Brain
- By: Mary-Frances O’Connor
- Narrator: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.19(587 ratings)
4.19(587 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. For as long as humans have existed, we have struggledA renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep yearning, how devastating heartache feels. But until now, we have had little scientific perspective on this universal experience.
In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, gives us a fascinating new window into one of the hallmark experiences of being human. O’Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others; but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future that encompasses their absence.
Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain does what the best popular science books do, combining storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
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Crossing The River
- By: Carol Smith
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 20, 2021
- Language: English
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4.17(130 ratings)
4.17(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEveryone deals with grief in their own way. Helen MacDonald found solace in training a wild goshawk. Cheryl Strayed found comfort in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist struggling with the suddenEveryone deals with grief in their own way. Helen MacDonald found solace in training a wild goshawk. Cheryl Strayed found comfort in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist struggling with the sudden death of her seven-year-old son Christopher, the way to cross the river of sorrow was through work. In Crossing the River, Smith recounts how she faced down her crippling loss through reporting a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense challenges, whether a freak accident, a debilitating injury, or a terrifying diagnosis. Smith deftly mixes the stories of these individuals and their families with her own account of how they helped her heal. General John Shalikashvili, once the most powerful member of the American military, taught Carol how to face fear with discipline and endurance. Seth, a young boy with a rare and incurable illness, shed light on the totality of her son’s experiences and, in turn, helps listeners see that the value of a life is not measured in days. This is a beautiful and profoundly moving book, an unforgettable journey through grief and a valuable, illuminating listen for anyone coping with loss.
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Before All Is Said and Done
- By: Suzanne Watson
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.16(60 ratings)
4.16(60 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USD“For a culture that finds it difficult to talk about the end of life, Before All Is Said and Done is the roadmap we all need to navigate the practicalities of death while experiencing shock, loss, and grief.” –Lee Woodruff, NYT“For a culture that finds it difficult to talk about the end of life, Before All Is Said and Done is the roadmap we all need to navigate the practicalities of death while experiencing shock, loss, and grief.” –Lee Woodruff, NYT Bestselling author
The notion of planning for one’s death is intrinsically at odds with our human instinct to avoid considering our own mortality. Although we may contemplate the grief that our life’s impermanence would cause to our loved ones, we seldom consider the myriad of emotional and legal issues that can arise afterward.
Before All Is Said and Done begins with the experience of author Pat Miles Zimmerman and her husband, Charles “Bucky” Zimmerman. Pat and Bucky were fully set for life but, regrettably, not set for death. After Bucky’s death from an abrupt and short illness, Pat found herself with a plate full of unanticipated emotions, decisions, and legal problems.
But, as she spoke with other widows, she learned she was not alone in finding herself adrift after losing a spouse. The shock and grief that erupt from such a loss do not create a state of mind fit for navigating the numerous challenges that follow an unexpected death.
Pat Miles Zimmerman will prepare us for the oft-ignored problems that run in tandem with somber situations:
The shock of loss and what to expect
Facing a potential cognitive decline
Finding support and healthy grieving
Family disputes and blended family issues
Caring for yourself after the loss
Although we may initially shirk away from the notion of our life’s transience, it is powerfully beneficial to ready ourselves and our loved ones for every stage of life — and death. Before All Is Said and Done weaves the definitive path on how to be set for both.
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A Better Death
- By: Ranjana Srivastava
- Narrator: Felicity Jurd
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.16(74 ratings)
4.16(74 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.47 USD‘Illuminating, inspiring and intensely practical’ HUGH MACKAY, author of The Good Life ‘Brimming with pathos and profound insights’ KON KARAPANAGIOTIDIS, author of The Power of Hope Of all the experiences we share, two‘Illuminating, inspiring and intensely practical’ HUGH MACKAY, author of The Good Life
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‘Brimming with pathos and profound insights’ KON KARAPANAGIOTIDIS, author of The Power of Hope
Of all the experiences we share, two universal events bookend our lives: we are all born and we will all die. We don’t have a choice in how we enter the world, but we can have a say in how we leave it.
In order to die well, we must be prepared to contemplate our mortality and to broach it with our loved ones, who are often called upon to make important decisions on our behalf. These are some of the most important conversations we can have with each other – to find peace, kindness and gratitude for what has gone before, and acceptance of what is to come.
Dr Ranjana Srivastava draws on two decades of experience to share her observations and advice on leading a meaningful life and finding dignity and composure at its end. With an emphasis on advocacy, leaving a legacy, and staying true to our deepest convictions, Dr Srivastava tells stories of strength, hope and resilience in the face of grief, and offers an optimistic meditation on living and dying well.
‘At last, a book that teaches us how to die with kindness, courage and grace’ CAROLINE BAUM, author of Only
‘The perfect balm for a fearful and technocratic world’ MICHAEL McGIRR, author of Books that Saved My Life
‘What a gift! Read it and give it to everyone you love’ KATE RICHARDS, author of Madness: A Memoir
‘Irresistibly compassionate, convincing and wise’ MORAG ZWARTZ, author of Being Sam
‘Moving and informative, this book will leave an indelible mark’ AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY
Dr Ranjana Srivastava OAM is an oncologist, award-winning writer, broadcaster and Fulbright scholar.
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The Orphaned Adult
- By: Alexander Levy
- Narrator: Jeff Steitzer
- Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 12, 2017
- Language: English
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4.09(577 ratings)
4.09(577 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.98 USDThis “wise and caring book” (Library Journal) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents.Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the... Read moreThis “wise and caring book” (Library Journal) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents.Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be. From the recognition of our own mortality and sudden child-like sorrow to a sometimes-subtle change in identity or shift of roles in the surviving family, The Orphaned Adult guides readers through the storm of change this passage brings and anchors them with its compassionate and reassuring wisdom. -
The Perfect Other
- By: Kyleigh Leddy
- Narrator: Kyleigh Leddy
- Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(500 ratings)
4.05(500 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDAll Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as KaitAll Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world.
As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways. The family struggled to keep this side of Kait private—at school and in her social life, she was still the gorgeous, effervescent life of the party with a modeling career ahead of her and big dreams. But slowly, things began to shatter, and Kyleigh could only watch in horror as her perfect sibling’s world collapsed around her. Kait was institutionalized with what would eventually be diagnosed as schizophrenia, leaving Kyleigh and their mother to handle the burden, shame, and guilt alone.
Then, in January 2014, Kait disappeared. Though they never found her body, security footage showed her making her way onto a big bridge over a river, where it is presumed that she jumped. Kyleigh is left wondering: What could she have done differently? How could this shining light be gone? And how will she find peace without her sister to guide her way there?
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Two Kisses for Maddy
- By: Matt Logelin
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 14, 2011
- Language: English
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4.02(7237 ratings)
4.02(7237 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDMatt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife. Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, theMatt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife.
Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz’s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited.
Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-to make a life for Maddy.
In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz’s legacy, heartache has become solace.
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Grief Works
- By: Julia Samuel
- Narrator: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.95(1135 ratings)
3.95(1135 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue.com), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others–from the “expected”“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue.com), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others–from the “expected” death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or spouse.
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Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. Julia Samuel, a grief psychotherapist, has spent twenty-five years working with the bereaved and understanding the full repercussions of loss. In Grief Works, Samuel shares case studies from those who have experienced great love and great loss–and survived. People need to understand that grief is a process that has to be worked through, and Samuel shows if we do the work, we can begin to heal. “As a guide for the newly grieving, Grief Works succeeds on many levels, and the author’s compassionate storytelling skills provide even broader appeal…and consistently hit an authentically inspiring note” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
“Illuminating” (The New York Times), intimate, warm, and helpful, Samuel is a caring and deeply experienced guide through the shadowy and mutable land of grief, and her book is as invaluable to those who are grieving as it is to those around them. She adroitly unpacks the psychological tangles of grief in a voice that is compassionate, grounded, real, and observant of those in mourning. Divided into case histories grouped by who has died–a partner, a parent, a sibling, a child, as well section dealing with terminal illness and suicide–Grief Works shows us how to live and learn from great loss. This important book is “essential for anyone who has ever experienced grief or wanted to comfort a bereaved friend” (Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones’s Diary). -
The Day That Went Missing
- By: Richard Beard
- Narrator: James Langton
- Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 06, 2018
- Language: English
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3.7(544 ratings)
3.7(544 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USD“Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving” — an unflinching portrait of a family’s silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff). On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in“Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving” — an unflinching portrait of a family’s silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff).... Read moreOn a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. One moment he’s there, the next he’s gone.
Richard and his other brothers don’t attend the funeral, and incredibly the family returns immediately to the same cottage — to complete the holiday, to carry on, in the best British tradition. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe. Their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory.
Nearly forty years later, Richard, an acclaimed novelist, is haunted by the missing piece of his childhood, the unexpressed and unacknowledged grief at his core. He doesn’t even know the date of his brother’s death or the name of the beach where the tragedy occurred. So he sets out on a painstaking investigation to rebuild Nicky’s life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident.
The Day That Went Missing is a transcendent story of guilt and forgiveness, of reckoning with unspeakable loss. But, above all, it is a brother’s most tender act of remembrance, and a man’s brave act of survival.
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2018
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Didn’t See That Coming
- By: Rachel Hollis
- Narrator: Rachel Hollis
- Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 29, 2020
- Language: English
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3.62(10920 ratings)
3.62(10920 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDThe New York Times Bestseller Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things, and she knows you have too. Now, she takes you to the other side. With her signature humor, heartfelt honesty, and intimate true-life stories, #1The New York Times Bestseller
Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things, and she knows you have too. Now, she takes you to the other side.
With her signature humor, heartfelt honesty, and intimate true-life stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hollis shows readers how to seize difficult moments for the learning experiences they are and the value and growth they provide.
Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 New York Times bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, attend her RISE conferences and follow her on social media know, she also wants to see you transform.
When it comes to the “hard seasons” of life–the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job–transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when, as Didn’t See that Coming reveals, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. But, as Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain–you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you.
To Rachel, a life well-lived is one of purpose, focused only on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings: inspirational, aspirational, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.
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My Morningless Mornings
- By: Stefany Anne Golberg
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 15, 2020
- Language: English
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3.57(13 ratings)
3.57(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFor Stefany Anne Golberg, the morning itself became a possibility she could no longer tolerate, so at age fourteen, she erased it all together. In a ranch house in a Vegas suburb, Golberg’s peculiar brand of insomnia lives alongside an ailingFor Stefany Anne Golberg, the morning itself became a possibility she could no longer tolerate, so at age fourteen, she erased it all together.
In a ranch house in a Vegas suburb, Golberg’s peculiar brand of insomnia lives alongside an ailing father, a professor on permanent leave from the local university. Her mother has moved out, her older brother has gone to college, and she is alone with the night, resisting the fundamental unit by which we measure our lives: the next day itself.
Startling, poignant, and harrowing, Golberg’s voice is informed by an eclectic range of interests, from Bruegel to Jung, Loren Eiseley to Marina Tsvetaeva. Equal parts coming-of-age memoir, art history, and philosophical inquiry, My Morningless Mornings is a young person’s reckoning with consciousness.
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Where Did You Go?
- By: Christina Rasmussen
- Narrator: Erin Moon
- Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 18, 2018
- Language: English
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3.53(41 ratings)
3.53(41 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDAn acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches listeners how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife. Christina RasmussenAn acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches listeners how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife.
Christina Rasmussen has helped countless people break out of the “waiting room” of grief and rebuild their lives through both her “life reentry” program and her respected book Second Firsts. Yet, she discovered that even as her students rebuild their lives and thrive again, many are left with the same burning questions: What happens when we die? Are we capable of connecting to those who have passed on?
Christina herself wrestled with these spiritual questions after losing her thirty-five-year-old husband to cancer. As a professional grounded in science, Christina was a skeptic who shied away from the conventional mystical, supernatural, and religious descriptions of the afterlife–but her loss, pain, and deep need to understand drove her to find answers about what really happens after we die.
With Where Did You Go? Christina reveals we all have the ability to connect with our loved ones who have passed on and teaches us how to harness that power–so that we may at last say the unsaid, discover peace in our own lives, and see a world in which we will all continue to exist, far beyond death. A step-by-step guide to journeying to the other side–as well as a groundbreaking exploration of what happens after we die–Where Did You Go? leads readers through practical exercises that serve as tools to help us experience the unseen world for ourselves, become comfortable with the experience, and trigger it whenever we desire–no psychic abilities required.
Fiercely honest and practical, Where Did You Go? bridges the gap between the metaphysical and the measurable, changing the way we grieve, the way we live, and how we define our potential–in this life, and the hereafter.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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