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Offers insights into the grieving process drawn from interviews with parents whose children have died, and argues that the trauma of a major loss is never overcome, but is integrated into a new way of life that may include changes in relationships, world views, values, and spirituality

This booklet was written to help you understand some of what you may experience after someone you love or know has died from suicide.

The author shares the lessons she learned about grieving after the death of a loved one, and offers advice to people who have suffered a loss on how to find their way to peace.

A true account of grief and secret love: the tale, through fifteen-year-old eyes, of a family clinging to the memory of a lost child, and a young woman struggling to define herself in the wake of his loss. As children, siblings Alison and Roy were so close that their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when Alison was fifteen, she woke to learn that Roy, eighteen, was dead. This is Smith's account of the impact of that...

Launched with a powerful narrative thrust of the suicide of her son in 1978, LaRita Archibald leads the reader from the initial trauma of violent death, through the ragged, brutal and unknown psychological and emotional landscape that must be traversed to find eventual peace. Using lessons learned from decades of work with suicide bereaved LaRita helps survivors of suicide loss have a framework for understanding the complexities of suicide grief and...

"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the The Nosy Neighbor and Pretty Woman is back with the sort of blockbuster she does best--a profoundly heartwarming novel about families and the strong women who hold them together.