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After 30 years of battling obesity and struggling with her finances, Elizabeth Benton transformed herself. She lost 150 pounds, eliminated $130,000 of debt, and committed herself to guiding other women through their own transformations. Her inspiring story and methodologies have touched millions of lives.

Stefan Weiller besucht Sterbende und spricht mit ihnen über die Musik, die sie in ihrem Leben und an dessen Ende bewegt hat. Die Geschichten, die Weiller aufschreibt, und die Lieder, die er mit seinen Gesprächspartnern hört, sind so vielfältig und unterschiedlich wie die Menschen, die von ihnen erzählen. Sie zeugen von Lebensfreude, aber auch von der Angst vorm Sterben - und offenbaren, dass die letzte Lebensphase nicht immer nur Trauer, Stille und Krankheit, sondern auch Zuversicht, Liebe und Menschlichkeit bedeutet.

Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their 23-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis.

In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love. In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car had been found...

La morte improvvisa dell'amatissimo padre nel giugno 2020, in piena pandemia, getta Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in uno stato di rabbiosa prostrazione. Le consuete parole della consolazione la irritano, il formalismo dei riti la esaspera, il dolore la dilania. Ma i suoi pensieri e le sue sensazioni, l'analisi dei diversi modi di affrontare il lutto, quello nigeriano e quello occidentale, diventano occasione per una lucida e penetrante meditazione sulle cose ultime, oltre che un canto d'amore per colui che per primo le ha insegnato a non temere il giudizio degli uomini.

Esta guía nos sumerge desde el proceso de pérdida, muerte, separación, enfermedad, envejecimiento, quiebra... hasta la toma de decisiones.

How does it feel when your partner dies? How do you keep going, even when it all seems pointless? How can you cope with the emptiness that is still there even years afterwards? Ten women talk about their experiences of losing their husbands; how they coped with grief and how they have rebuilt their lives. One woman was left to run a farm with very little experience, another lost her husband when she was 30 and had young children to care for, another was widowed after years of coping with a poor relationship.

A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief - and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open.

The evening of April 12, 1979, was clear and warm. Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision - to walk the few blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inches from the safety of their hotel entrance, they were accosted by two young men - a scuffle ensued, a shot fired, Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time tells the story of what happened next - hours, days, weeks, and years after those horrible seconds. 

“Riveting... a personal and highly original work of true-crime storytelling.” — John Douglas, former FBI criminal profiling pioneer and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter A chilling investigation into the unsolved “boy in the woods” murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove...

This beautiful book offers a gentle and honest guide for surviving the early days of grief - shock, trauma, disbelief - and beyond. In simple, easy-to-absorb, poetic language, listeners will begin to find the path they need to move through their grief, step by step. From grieving a sudden death or a long illness, someone hard to love or impossible to live without, anyone suffering a loss will see themselves and their grief reflected in this book.

Brought to you by Penguin. Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out...

Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff. When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss...

When the worst that can happen, happens, the only useful lesson is the knowledge that it can. That's the take-away: a world can actually end, time can actually run out, sadness can prevail. But I didn't know that then . . . From one of Canada's most celebrated writers and the author of the...

Een persoonlijke zoektocht naar verdriet en hoe we daarmee omgaan. We leven in een wereld waar geluk van elk scherm spat. Iedereen doet er alles aan om positief in het leven te staan, maar tegelijkertijd stijgt het aantal depressies. We weten wel dat somberheid en verdriet bij het leven horen, maar we zijn vergeten hoe erbij stil te staan. En wie niet kan omgaan met verdriet raakt niet alleen zichzelf kwijt - anderen weten ook niet hoe ze ons moeten helpen. We moeten leren omgaan met verdriet om ook gelukkig te kunnen zijn. Want beide horen bij het leven.

The collected radio shows of award-winning stand-up comedian Bridget Christie 'The current queen of crusading UK comedy' - Guardian Writer, actress and stand-up star Bridget Christie has won numerous awards, performed 12 hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows and written the critically-acclaimed...

A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and six days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still. At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.

En pocos días, Raynor se queda sin casa, sin trabajo y descubre que su marido de 32 años sufre una enfermedad terminal. Sin nada que perder y con poco tiempo, deciden caminar las 630 millas de la ruta costera del suroeste: de Somerset a Dorset. Casi sin dinero para comida y llevando solo lo esencial para sobrevivir a sus espaldas, viven salvajes en el antiguo y degradado paisaje de acantilados, mar y cielo.

"112 for knuste hjerter" fører dig igennem kærestesorgens fire faser: chok, sorg, bearbejdning og styrke. Ved hjælp af Pelle Peter og Maria Jencels personlige fortællinger samt gode råd, der bygger på deres erfaringer og forskning om, hvad der sker i kroppen og sindet, guider bogen dig gennem de svære følelser og ud på den anden side, hvor alt bliver godt igen. Måske endda bedre end før kærestesorgen. Bogen rummer både akut hjælp til den chokramte og hjælp til den, der vil lære og blive stærkere af sit brud og finde en ny vej i livet.

Shooting Out the Lights unravels like a mystery novel, but Kim Fairley's memoir wrestles with the very real secrets we keep from each other and the roles we play to protect ourselves. Centered around her marriage to a man 32 years older who had lost his son from his first marriage in a gun accident, the story explores the taboo of wide-age-gap love.