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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.

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.

Mit dem Verlust einer nahestehenden Person umgehen zu müssen ist für jeden eine schwierige Herausforderung. Es gilt Abschied zu nehmen und seine Trauer zu bewältigen. Finden Sie durch diese Meditation Trost in einer schweren Zeit. Sie hilft Ihnen, mit dem Tod zusammenhängende Gefühle wie Schmerz, Verzweiflung, Wut, aber auch Erleichterung bewusst anzunehmen.

In this book, I share about my experience with being a witness and a victim to a murder-suicide. The experience was with two friends who recently separated and were potentially headed to divorce. I knew Eddie and Stacey were having problems, but what I didn't know was that Eddie was prepared to end the lives of he and Stacey.

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.

Written by two women who were bereaved at a young age, It's Your Loss explores approaches to grieving loss to find the one that's right for you. Any kind of loss - whether the death of a loved one, breakdown of a relationship, or loss of your job - can be devastatingly painful, leaving life feeling empty. Even subtle losses in life can trigger a sense of grief. But, loss is a natural part of life and can be a catalyst for new beginnings. 

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.

Aus tiefer Trauer in ein kraftvolles Leben zurückfinden. "Jede Trauer ist individuell für sich betrachtet immer besonders, immer traurig, immer eine Herausforderung, aber immer auch eine Chance zu persönlichem Wachstum und Weiterentwicklung." In kurzen, aber empathischen Abschnitten bietet Christine Kempkes Impulse für den Alltag an, die behutsam dabei helfen, das Leben nach dem Verlust eines geliebten Menschen wieder aktiv zu gestalten und neue Perspektiven zu entwickeln.

A través de este audiolibro, Comprensión del duelo en el siglo XXI: nuevas perspectivas, la licenciada Rosa Mariana Brea nos ofrece una importantísima contribución al explicarnos lo que es el duelo y cómo, inevitablemente, este nos acompaña a lo largo de toda nuestra vida.

My Good Grief is an interactive audio workbook to guide you through your grief process. We are committed to people being free to be real. This audio workbook is produced in a metaphor of a walk through the forest. You can sometimes feel like you are walking through a dark dense forest. Cheryl Parker will walk you through to dappled light, then a sense of beauty and ultimately freedom.

In diesem Hörbuch erzählt die Autorin ihre Geschichte von wahrer Liebe und Seelenverwandtschaft und der Zeit, in der sie ihren unheilbar an Krebs erkrankten Mann Paul gepflegt hat. Sie berichtet davon, wie sie begriff, dass das größte Zeichen ihrer Liebe zu ihrem Mann war, ihn loszulassen und davon, wie sie seit seinem Tod im Mai 2018 mit ihrer Trauer lebt.

"Siempre he pensado que la vida es amor y dolor, pero que tenemos la opción de transformar ese dolor para evitar quedar anclados en el sufrimiento, que es inútil. El autor de este libro, un héroe anónimo, nos demuestra que con una actitud positiva, sea cual sea el desenlace, y regalando sonrisas - aunque en el fondo no se tengan suficientes motivos para sonreír -, se atraviesan los momentos más duros de la vida de una forma mucho más sana y llevadera.