RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Grieving a Suicide
“Albert,” the neighbor said, “your mom needs you to come home.” That’s how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions—anger, guilt, grief, and despair.
Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen?
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Finding Your Way
This uniquely designed resource for those left behind after a suicide (loved ones, friends, siblings, and extended family) provides encouraging, practical help and hope. Also includes features designed for SOS support groups, pastors, Christian counselors, and church leaders with the goal of helping the church function more fully as the healing community it could be for…
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Grieving with Hope
Practical and straightforward, yet warm and compassionate, “Grieving with Hope” clarifies the popular misconception that people move through stages of grief. This will be an encouragement to many, as grieving people often think something is wrong with them when their grief doesn’t proceed neatly through stages. The reality is that grieving people jump back
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Unshakable Hope
What feels shaky in your world? Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling? Maybe you feel hurt by the past. Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future. If so, you are not alone, but there is hope. You can live with security and purpose. In Unshakable Hope, Max Lucado unpacks 12 of the Bible’s most significant promises, equipping you to…
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When a Friend Dies
The death of a friend is a wrenching event for anyone at any age. Teenagers especially need help coping with this painful loss. This sensitive book answers questions grieving teens often have, like “How should I be acting?” “Is it wrong to go to parties and have fun?” and “What if I can’t handle my grief on my own?” The advice is gentle, non-preachy, and compassionate;
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Thoughts of Suicide
16 year-old Kevin Colvin – burdened by his parents’ fighting, the recent death of his best friend, and slipping grades – despairs that he’s just ‘a waste of space on this planet’. Is this a passing thought, or is he seriously contemplating suicide?
Through the aid of a gripping true-to-life story, Josh and Ed, offer biblical insights and…
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A Grace Disguised:
An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss―with a new preface and epilogue Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime, all of us will…
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When Someone Dies: A Child-Caregiver Activity Book
When Someone Dies: A Child-Caregiver Activity Book (Available in Spanish) is an activity book for children that also provides valuable information to parents and caregivers about how grief impacts children. Contained within the pages of the book are activities for children designed to help them better express, understand, and cope with
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Grief: A Mama’s Unwanted Journey
This is the book you want no one to need yet know at some point, everyone will. It is for those walking through the searing pain of grief and also for those walking arm-in-arm with a loved one along grief’s tumultuous journey. Shelley Ramsey knows that pain well.
At the age of seventeen Ramsey’s oldest son, Joseph, died in a single-vehicle accident. Shelley chronicled her deeply personal reflections and arduous journey through grief in Grief: A Mama’s Unwanted Journey.
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When Tragedy Strikes
After the death of a child, there is no closure. It is like learning how to live with an amputation—you are forever changed and need to learn how to live a new “normal.” There can be a feeling of desperation to find someone farther ahead on the path who can understand the crushing pain that makes you feel like you can’t even breathe at times.
Laura Diehl was plunged into that place with the death of her daughter and meets the deep need to connect with others who have experienced what cannot be put into words.
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My Grief Journey – Parents
Are you a grieving parent, looking for ways to help relieve the intense pain, anger, and confusion? Are you struggling with why God would allow your child to die? Do you want to move toward hope and life again?
Search the internet, and you will find all kinds of studies to prove that coloring relieves stress. Journaling also helps us get in touch with things we might be feeling, but haven’t been able to put into words. This unique book, My Grief Journey: Coloring Book and Journal (for grieving parents) puts the 2 together.
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My Grief Journey – Kids
Do you know a child who has faced a deep loss, such as the death of a parent, sibling or grandparent? Are you looking for a way to help them sort out their thoughts and emotions? My Grief Journey: Coloring Book and Journal for Kids is for any age (including adult “kids”) who are learning how to live after the death of someone dearly loved and deeply missed. It is different from all the other coloring books out there. Each coloring page has a word surrounded by beautiful artwork which is intentionally hand drawn.
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Purpose Driven Life
The #1 international bestseller! The Purpose Driven Life will help you understand why you are alive and God’s amazing plan for you both now and for eternity. You are not an accident. Even before the universe was created, God had you in mind, and he planned you for his purposes…
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The Forever Decision
For those thinking about suicide, and for those who know, love, or counsel them, this book discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help.
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Life, In Spite of Me
She wanted to die. God had other plans. This remarkably joyful young woman shares the miracle of her survival, the agonizing aftermath of her failed suicide attempt, and the hope that has completely transformed her life, giving her a powerful purpose for living. Her gripping story…
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Hope for Hurting Hearts
Life is fragile. But hope in Christ lasts forever. We tend to go about our day to day routines imagining this earthly existence of ours will just go on and on. But it won’t. Our stay on earth is really very brief. and when a loved one unexpectedly steps out of this life into eternity, it shakes us to the core.
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Tear Soup – A Recipe for Healing After Loss
A great book for children and adults who are grieving, written by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen. In this richly illustrated book, Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life and so she is cooking up her own unique batch of tear soup. Tear Soup gives you a glimpse into Grandy’s life as she blends ingredients into her own grief process.
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Through the Eyes of a Lion
Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her ferocious personality and hair that had been wild and mane-like since birth. But they never expected that, five days before Christmas, their five-year-old daughter would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack.
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Hope in the Mourning
When a casserole or a greeting card isn’t enough” Grief is one of life’s toughest challenges. During such times it is difficult to know where to turn. Yet in the midst of your deepest despair, God reveals Himself and His promises for a better tomorrow. The NIV Hope in the Mourning Bible works to bring a peaceful sense—in the midst of the coldest winter—that spring will one day come again.
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Choose Joy
Everyone knows how to be joyful in the peaks of life. But what about the valleys? When nothing seems to go your way? When everything is falling apart? When God is silent, and you feel all alone? Where does joy fit into those moments? In Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn’t Enough, Kay Warren explains the path to experiencing soul-satisfying joy no matter what you’re going through.
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