Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Health: Death & Dying
"Compassionate. Comforting. Readers will see themselves on every page." - Paul Casale, Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage & Family Therapist
Loss is painful. Separation hurts. We need comfort.
Oblivious to our suffering, the world around us speeds on as if nothing happened. Stunned, shocked, sad, confused, and angry, we blink in disbelief. The pain can be immense.
We look for comfort. We long for it. Grieving hearts need it to survive.
Multiple award-winning author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe has become a trusted voice to many hurting, grieving hearts. Written with heartfelt compassion, this easy-to-read, warm, and practical book reads like a caring conversation with a friend and is destined to become a classic for those looking for hope and encouragement in times of loss.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Health: Death & Dying
Dying Well is an inspiring love story telling of how a man celebrated life while facing his death with grace and dignity. His widow guides you through decisions made and actions taken on their nine-month journey from diagnosis through celebrations and goodbyes, to a peaceful death free of fear and regret. She shares lessons learned as their family came to terms with her husband's impending death and found ways to make this last stage of his life as loving and joyous as possible. This uplifting end-of-life story offers a thought-provoking perspective on dying, one that may help you and those you love achieve what's most important at the end of your lives.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Health: Death & Dying
Why me?
Why did this this have to happen to me? What could have I possibly done to the universe to have deserved this?
For anyone that has ever asked these questions, Embracing Life From Death might just be the perfect book for you.
Written with a jarring intensity and raw with emotion, this book will shock you and grip you from the very first page.
Anitra shares her story in full without holding back. Her displays of courage and commitment through trials will lift your spirits yet her grief and pain will be felt as keenly as if you were in the room sitting next to her.
How does one find resilience in grief and loss?
How does one cope with true sorrow and anguish?
How does one go from losing a husband to brain cancer, to a new cancer diagnosis for a daughter one year later?
Healing comes from hope, and hope through trials. Embracing Life From Death tackles heartbreak turned healing, and then more heartbreak turned resilience.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Health: Death & Dying
Love lingers far after the end.....
After the death of a beloved 102 year old aunt, Corinne Martin discovered that “the love room” - the unique connection made up of the joys and struggles of two people over time - didn’t disappear. Determined to stay in touch, Martin began writing letters to her aunt. Over three years, these became a tender doorway both forward into the uncharted territory of loss, and backward into her southern roots.
Keeping watch at the love room door, Martin learned more about her aunt, rediscovered their intriguing family, fell in love with the South again, and began to heal. She learned that all love rooms intersect in the heart, and that our beloveds are never torn away. Find comfort, inspiration, and even joy as you accompany the author on her luminous trek through the landscape of loss.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Health: Death & Dying
Prayer is Good: A Path from Grief to Peace invites you to move through the grieving process in a new way. Through her own story of grief and loss, author Brette Petway shares interactive ways to pray and experience your personal conversation with God. Feel the healing miracle of prayer and nurture your beautiful self through your senses. Grief leaves no one untouched. Brette invites you to take a prayerful journey with your head, heart, and hands, to move from grief to peace.
Fire, Faith & Glory commemorates my second year in pediatric residency in KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital. It is an anthology of poems that brings you, the readers, through an emotional trajectory through my various postings across neonatology, high dependency, and the children’s intensive care unit. A sequel to Do They Have Telephones Up in Heaven? this collection pays tribute to the children whom we have lost, children who have recovered well, and children who are still fighting for their lives. This collection also remembers parents and their daily struggles through difficult times. I hope you will all find a poem in here that brings you comfort and heals any open wounds from past experiences. We all have a story to share, and I am thankful to all the patients and their families who have inspired me to write these poems, each with their own little histories. As the title suggests, this anthology is fiercer and more intense and features poems that will make one reflect, persevere, and strive toward a better tomorrow, which we are all working together for. I hope you will remember, as I always do, that you only get a beautiful rainbow after a heavy rainstorm. And no matter how heavy, it will come to an end one day and the sun will shine again—brighter than ever before.
When a seemingly routine medical procedure results in her mother's premature death, Anne Panning is left reeling. In her first full-length memoir, the celebrated essayist and short story writer draws on decades of memory and experience, piecing together hard truths about her own past and her mother's.
We follow Panning's winding path from rural Minnesota to the riverbanks of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. A stark, poignant tale of two women deeply connected, yet forever apart, Dragonfly Notes is a testament to the prevailing nature of love, whether in the form of a rediscovered note, a sudden moment of unexpected recall, or sometimes, simply, the sight a dragonfly flitting past.
