Always With Us: Loss and Grieving
The death of a loved one and the grief that follows is one of the hardest experiences we as human beings can go through. While no single text can offer a simple answer, we offer a selection of books for both adults and children that can give some understanding of grief and grieving, and help one continue on after loss. PLEASE NOTE: if the catalogue address for the book does not include samepagecbrl.bibliocommons.com go to the cbrl.ca link and search for the item by title or author.
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Beginner's Guide To Goodbye
Every summer, Laney's family visits their cottage on Tidnish Beach. This year Laney's little sister, Jenny, is gone. Ten-year-old Laney grapples with the loss. She avoids the other kids until she makes a new friend--one who doesn't look at her with pity. When a situation arises and Laney needs to help her new friend, she finally understands that even though she will miss Jenny forever, she can find happiness again.
Still Here With Me
In their own words, children and young people of a variety of ages talk openly and honestly about losing their mother or father. They describe feelings of pain, loss and anger, the struggle to cope with the embarrassed reactions and silence of others, and the difficulties involved in rebuilding their lives. They also share happy and loving memories of their parents, and talk about the importance of remembering while learning to accept their parent's death.
Motherless Daughters
More than twenty years after first being published, this is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.
On Consolation
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe-we go in search of consolation. Michael Ignatieff shows how people in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, he takes those stories into the present, contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation in our precarious twenty-first century.
The Sour Cherry Tree
A heartwarming look at love, loss, and memorable objects through the eyes of a child. After her grandfather's death, a young girl wanders through his house. As she tours each room, the objects she discovers stir memories of her grandfather ... The Sour Cherry Tree is an authentic look at death and loss centred on the experiences of a child, both strikingly whimsical and matter-of-fact.
Lost in the Clouds
This book is about death and helps explain to children that it's ok to feel sad when a loved one dies. When Billy's mother dies, he pretends she lives in the clouds. Some days the sun is shining and Mommy's clouds are nowhere to be seen. Those are Billy's favorite days when he and Daddy would play in the garden all day long, and Billy knows that Mommy is letting the sun shine for them. But not all days are like that. Sometimes Mommy's clouds are dark, and Billy feels sad and alone.
What Happens When a Loved One Dies
Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death. Using questions posed in a child's voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natural and reassuring conclusion. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion.
Option B
Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead.
Breaking Sad
Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss. Breaking Sad helps us start conversations through its pages of personal stories and suggestions from everyday survivors--bringing us all to a place where we can more comfortably offer support and caring to people when they need it most.
Mourning Has Broken
On the morning of May 11, 2015, Erin Davis, one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities, suffered a devastating blow when her daughter Lauren, who had marked a joyous Mother's Day with her husband and young son only hours before, failed to awaken to her baby's cries. Thus began Erin's journey of grieving out loud with her family, friends and listeners, and of demonstrating by example how to pick up and keep going after suffering the worst loss a parent can endure.
When Dinosaurs Die
Straightforward and comprehensive, this indispensable book is a comforting aid to help young kids and families through a difficult time in their lives. No one can really understand death, but to children, the passing away of a loved one can be especially perplexing and troublesome. This is true whether the loss is a family member, friend, or pet. Here to offer advice and reassurance are the wise dinosaurs from the bestselling Dino Tale series.
Life After Loss
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems daunting, if not impossible. With great compassion and insight, Deits provides practical exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief, helping readers find positive ways to put together a life that is necessarily different, but equally meaningful. With two new chapters and significant changes throughout reflecting Deits's ongoing experience in counseling, Life after Loss is an essential "roadmap for those in grief".
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