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Grief Digest Quarterly Magazine
2013
Volume 11, Issue #1
“We are all mirrors unto one another. Look into me and you will find something of yourself as I will of you.” — Walter Rinder
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Thank you! Centering Corporation is a non-profit, bereavement resource center. We would like to thank all of our authors, contributors, supporters and consultants.
Content
About Centering Corporation
Section One: Adult Grief Resources
Healing Music Adult Grief Resources Helping Others Holidays and Special Days Helping Others Suicide and Homicide Survivors Anger and Guilt Men and Grief Death of a Parent Death of a Spouse or Life Partner Illness, Death and Dying Adult Sibling Grief
Section Two: Death
of a
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Child
Suicide and Drug Overdose Page 11 Death of a Child in the Military Page 11 Death of a Child Page 11-14 Sympathy Cards Page 13,28 New Titles Page 14
Section Three: Infant Loss Resources Miscarriage and Newborn Death Page 15-18 Memory Books Page 16 Healing A Father’s Grief Page 16 DVDs and Music Page 16 Sibling Grief Page 17 For Grandparents Page 17 Teen Miscarriage, Adopton Page 17 Infertility Page 17 Funeral Planning Page 18 Caregivers Page 18 Unborn Baby Has Problems Page 18 Small Handouts Page 18 T-Shirt Page 18 Burial Gown Page 18 Comfee Doll Page18 NICU Infants Page 19
The Centering Corporation was founded in 1977 by Joy and Dr. Marvin Johnson, National Presenters. We started out with nine little coloring books for hospitalized children and a couple of workshops for nurses. Today we have over 150 of our own grief resources for children and adults, My Friends Emotion Dolls, a Memory Bag for children and are the official bookstore for several national organizations. We are here for grieving people and those who care for and love them. We will provide the best grief literature possible. We will develop needed books and provide caring workshops.
Our Mission Statement
We will help support groups find the resources they need to make a difference. We support other publishers who are also reaching people. All of us are unique. We are sensitive to the needs of others and to our own needs. Each call into our office will find a caring voice on the other end, with time to listen and readiness to help. We will all participate in continuing education events every year to increase our own expertise and to help us develop spiritually and emotionally. Our clients and our members are considered part of a caring, extended family, and we will develop personal relationships with them and they with us. We will consult and listen to advice and new ideas. We look at the challenges before us as positive, rewarding experiences. We will not set limits beneath our potential. We will treat ourselves and others with respect. We will encourage creativity and new ideas. We will enjoy the changes that come.
Section Four: Children’s Grief Resources Creative & Healing Tools Page19-21 For Parents and Professionals Page 22 School Resources Page 22 Sibling Grief Page 23 Death of a Grandparent Page 23 National Disaster Page 23 Illness: For Children and Family Page 24 Pet Loss Page 24 Death of a Parent Page 25 Divorce Page 25 Teen/Adolescent Grief Page 26 Suicide and Homicide Page 27
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Resource List 25 Things to Do P. 19 35 Ways to Help a Grieving P. 21 Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope P. 23 ABCs of Healthy Grieving P. 5 Adult Sibing Grief P. 9 After A Murder P. 27 After A Death P. 27 After A Parent’s Suicide P. 7 After A Suicide P. 27 After Suicide Loss P. 7 After the Darkest Hour P. 12 After the Loss of Your Baby P. 17 After the Murder of my Son P. 14 Afterlife of Billy Fingers P. 9 Alphabet of Healing P.4 Always My Brother P. 23 Always Too Soon P. 8 Answering the Cry for Help P. 21 Ant Hill Disaster, The P. 23,27 Am I Going Crazy? P. 13 Am I Like My Daddy P. 25 Am I Still A Sister? P. 17 An Empty Cradle, A Full P. 16 Andy’s Mountain P. 17 Angel Catcher P. 5 Angel T-shirt P. 18 Another Baby? Maybe P. 15 Art of Being a Healing P. 9 Art of Helping Others P. 6 Ask Me P. 7,11 Babka’s Serenade P. 26 Baby Talk & Special P. 19 Bandages For Your Heart P. 10 Baseball Forever! P. 23 Beautiful Dragons WorkBk P. 27 Bereavement Counseling P. 21 Being With Parents P. 18 Bereaved Parent, The P. 12 Beyond Prenatal Choice P. 18 Beyond Tears P. 12 Beyond the Rainbow P. 24 Birdhouse Project, The P. 13 Bittersweet, Hello P. 18 Boob Girls, The P.10 Boob Girls, The II P.10 Boob Girls, The III P. 10 Boob Girls, The IV P. 10 Boob Girls, The V P. 10 Building Memories P. 18 Bunch of Balloons, A P. 20 Burial Gown–Large P. 18 Burial Gown–Medium P. 18 Burial Gown–Small P. 18 Burial Gown–X-Small P. 18 But I Didn’t Say Goodbye P. 27 Butterflies, Angels & Roses P. 12 Butterfly Song CD, The P. 4 ‘Can’ in Cancer, The P. 24 Catching the Light P. 12 Caregiver’s Handbook, A P. 18 Celebration of Life, A P. 9 Changing the Way We Die P. 9 Chicken Soup Grieving P. 5 Child Remembers, A P. 27 Children Also Grieve P. 23 Children Die, Too P. 13 Children Die, Too Spanish P. 13 Children Grieve, Too P. 33 Children’s Grief P. 25 Child’s View of Grief, A P. 21 Christmas Cactus, The P. 6 Coffee and Clomind P. 17 Conversations P. 9 Comfee Doll Pillow P. 18 Comfort Us Lord P. 15 Common Threads of Teen P. 26 Companioning At A Time P. 18 Confronting Death/Schools P. 21 Coping With Traumatic P. 7 Couple Communication P. 15 Creating a New Normal P. 13 Crying Handbook, The P. 5 ‘D” Word, The P. 25 Daddy’s Gone P. 25 Dear Parents P. 12 Death of a Child, The P. 12 Death of an Infant Twin P. 18 Difficult Decisions P. 18 Different Way to Grieve P. 26 Doggone Grief Game P. 19 Dream Clouds P. 25 Dying to be Free P. 7 Ectopic Pregnancy P. 15 Ectopic Pregnancy, Spanish P. 15 Empty Arms P. 15 Empty Arms, Spanish P. 15 Empty Cradle: Broken Heart P.15 Empty Place, The P. 23 Essential Guide to Life After P. 5 Everette Andrerson’s P. 25 Facing Change P. 26
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Adult Grief Resources Healing Music The Butterfly Song Butterflies are messengers of joy and life. This song is perfect to enhance Butterfly Release Ceremonies with an elegantly designed 80 page book featuring the lyrics, inspirational verses and award winning photos. Includes the single CD by Paul Alexander. Code: BFSO Price: $20.00 Just A Touch Away CD By Tony Falzano. A musical passage to inspire, heal, and rejuvenate. Original music that will calm, comfort and nurture you. Beautifully orchestrated, melodic instrumental to lift your heart and soul. A unique listening experience that will be an inspirational companion as you reach for relaxation and hope. Code: JTAO Price: $14.95
Tear Soup A Recipe for Healing After Loss. After Grandy suffers a loss she cooks up her own batch of tear soup. Gives you a glimpse into Grandy’s life as she blends different ingredients into her own grief process. Valuable for family members to share. Hardcover. All ages. Code: TERO Price: $19.95 Spanish Version: Sopa de Lagrimas Code: TESO Price: 14.95 Tear Soup DVD This video was created by filming the Tear Soup book illustrations and then narrated by a national talent. Running time 30 minutes. Code: TVDO Price: $29.95 Good Grief -50 year Anniversary Edition A basic grief book by Granger Westberg. Tremendously simple, direct and caring. Small enough to carry in your pocket or purse to read when needed or in one sitting. A unique section, We Resist Returning, looks at why we hesitate to adopt a new normal. Code: GGRO Price: $5.99
Light a Candle Songs of Remembrance CD For Healing Rituals, includes all four ritual songs: Light a Candle, Tree of Memory, Walk to Remember, and The Balloon Song, plus instrumental versions. Code: LCCO Price: $15.00
Grief: A Natural Reaction to Loss by Marge Eaton Heegaard. This book was written to help you understand the dynamics of the grief process and your personal reaction to loss. It encourages mourning, which requires you to recognize and express confusing and painful feelings. It teaches coping skills to help you move forward as a whole person capable of feeling and experiencing life. Code: GRFO Price: $9.95
Your Light Will Always Shine CD by Paul Alexander. To honor the light and spirit of our loved ones. Includes vocal and instrumental versions of the title song, as well as Candle on the Water. Code: YLWO Price: $15.00
Grief: What it is and what you can do by Joy and Marv Johnson. Covers feelings, issues, other people, rituals and caring for yourself. It may seem as if you’ll never be happy again. You may go to a bereavement support group and hear people laugh.You may wonder how anyone can laugh when you’re hurting so badly, but somewhere, way back in your head, there’s a little voice calling your name. It’s saying, ‘You’ll laugh again sometime, too.’ Code: GRIC Price: $4.00 Spanish Version: Aflicción - qué es y qué puedes hacer Code: GRSC Price: $4.00 Spanish Sympathy Card: (This is a special time for caring) Code: 4SSC Price: $2.50
Adult Grief Resources Healing After Loss Daily meditations for working through grief by Martha Hickman. A dated meditation for each day of the year. Strength and comfort can be found in these inspirational words. Code: HALO Price: $11.99
A Guide For The Bereaved Survivor-A List of Reactions, Suggestions and Steps for Coping with Grief by Robert Baugher and Marc Calija. A helpful book to help you begin the sometimes long and painful road of working through your grief. Practical information on coping, emotional and physical reactions, how others react, dreams, beliefs and long-term features of grief. Code: GBSO Price: $5.00
The Alphabet of Grieving: An A To Z Guide to A Better Life After the Death of a Child By Rob Anderson. This is for the newly bereaved parent who can barely read a couple of paragraphs, let alone a whole new book. Open it to any letter and healing is available. Read one letter a day if that’s all you can do. Don’t give up. Fight for the life of your child and your life as well. Code: ALPO Price: $9.95
How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando, Ph.D. Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But whether the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve; each person’s response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide, the author leads you gently through the painful but necessary process of grieving. Code: HLWO Price: $17.00
Seed Time: Growing from Life’s Disappointments, Losses and Sorrows by Harriet Hodgson. With hard work, self-examination, and determination, Harriet created a new life from the ashes of grief. So many people asked her how she did that, Harriet listed the steps on paper. This guide contains 80 proactive steps you may take to recover from adversity and grief. Code: SDTO Price: $16.00 A Treasury of Thoughts Moments, Moods and Memories Journal. A blank journal is nice to give to anyone who is grieving. It can be given with a card or book. A healing tool that a griever can use to write down any significant events or feelings. Code: TOTC Price: $4.95 Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Dr. Alan Wolfelt. This new book is his most comprehensive, covering the most important lessons that mourners have taught him in his two decades of working with the bereaved. Explains the important difference between grief and mourning and explores the mourner’s need to acknowledge the death and embrace the pain of the loss. Code: UNGO Price: $14.95 The Understanding Your Grief Journal Writing can be a very effective form of mourning, or expressing your grief outside yourself. And it is through mourning that you heal in grief. Code: UNJO Price: $14.95
Living with Loss, One Day at a Time by Rachel Blythe Kodanaz. Offers daily encouragement to individuals and families who have recently lost a loved one. The short entries are easy to read and give realistic, practical advice to guide readers through the day. By providing tools and suggestions that offer hope, optimism, introspection, and self-discovery, this book enables readers to embrace the happy days of life with their loved one and gently guide them through their grief. Code: LILO Price: $15.95 The Mourning Pin. Please join us in wearing the black mourning pin as an outward symbol of grief, sympathy and support for all of us who grieve the loss of a loved one, today, yesterday, and forever more. Code: MPIO $2.00
Pocket Stones™ Set of 10 stones in small bag. Semi-precious polished stones, deeply engraved with comforting and inspirational words. Code: POSO Price: $30.00
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Adult Grief Resources Angel Catcher-A Journal of loss and Remembrance by Kathy Eldon and Amy Eldon. Over the past decade, this classic journal has helped thousands find meaningful ways to overcome the despair of losing a loved one. The tasteful pages of this journal guide the user through the process of mourning and onward to a lasting sense of peace in the face of loss. Code: ACOO Price: $18.95
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Living When A Loved One Has Died By Earl Grollman. If someone you know is grieving, Living When a Loved One Has Died can help. Explains what emotions to expect when mourning, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to work through feelings of loss. Suitable for pocket or bedside, this gentle book guides the lonely and suffering as they move through the many fac ets of grief, begin to heal, and slowly build new lives. Code: LWLO Price: $14.99
Writing to Recover book and journal set The Journey from Loss and Grief to a New Life by Harriet Hodgson, BS, MA. This concise grief resource begins with a Foreword by Helen Fitzgerald, Emeritus Training Director of the American Hospice Foundation. Contents include Using This Book, Your Writing Place, Writing Tips for You, Writing and Personal Growth, Readings (30 writing samples), Proactive Steps in this Book, Words of Hope and Grief Support. Code: WRBC Price: $9.95 The Crying Handbook For those who always cry, for those who never do, and for those who cry somewhere in between by Bob Baugher, Ph.D. and Darcie Sims, Ph.D. Provides research on what we know and are still learning about crying. Crying can be defined as a way to express grief, pain, anger and other emotions. Code: CRHO Price: $10.00
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing By Dena Rosenbloom, PhD, and Mary Beth Williams, PhD. Trauma can turn your world upside down. This supportive workbook helps survivors of all types of trauma rebuild their lives. Filled with comforting activities, relaxation techniques, and questions. Stepby-step chapters guide you along the way. This workbook can be used individually or in therapy. Code: LATO Price: $19.95
Walking Through Grief: A Guide To The Grief Journey DVD: Hosts Darcie Sims and Alan Pedersen along with a group of Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul contributors share their journey toward hope. Alan is a nationally Stories about Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One. This known singer, songwriter and speaker on grief and loss. Darcie, collection of inspirational stories will undoubtedly provide comfort to one of the foremost authorities in the field of grief and loss shares readers who have lost someone close to them. Written by authors who her wit and wisdom as well as her compassion and understanding have lost loved ones. ,which come from her personal experiences and formal education. Code: CSSO Price: $14.95 Code: WTGO Price: $39.95 ABCs of Healthy Grieving Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving by Molly Fumia. The By Harold Ivan Smith. Losing a loved one is wrenching, and, in times loss of a loved one is one of the most traumatic experiences we of grief, wordy reading on healing offers little solace. Each suggestion will ever face. This wise and profound book of reflections for the starts with a letter of the alphabet and ends with an “I can” statement grieving offers a compassionate companion for those who have lost that offers both realistic hope and a goal toward which to strive. a loved one. Each page offers new words for contemplation, and Code: ABCO Price: $12.95 the book can be read cover to cover or pages chosen at random to find inspiration to make it through another day. More Than Surviving Code: SAPO Price: $14.95 Caring for yourself while you grieve by Kelly Osmont. This very helpful resource includes information about the grief process, The Essential Guide to Life After Bereavement Beyond how stress from grief affects us, motivators to caring for yourself, Tomorrow by Judy Carole Kauffmann and Mary Jordan. This support=nourishment, touch and its healing effect, foods, supplements, sensitive book acts as a helpful and supportive road map through quiet time, dreams, exercise, and a new beginning. the initial period of loss, and through the weeks and months Code: MTSC Price: $5.95 that follow. The authors address not only the emotional and spiritual aspects of bereavement, but also important practical Healing Grief considerations which are often overlooked, such as the disposal A Medic resource by Amy Hillyard Jensen. Very basic and packed with of personal possessions, dealing with funerals, memorials and anniversaries and helpful information. Talks about feelings and reactions and what to resolving family conflict. expect when you’re grieving. A perfect handout with little cost. Code: LABO Price: $19.95 Code: HEGO Price: $3.50 Spanish Edition: Curando El Pesar Journeys with Grief: A Collection of Articles about Love, Life Code: HESO Price: $3.50 and Loss edited by Kenneth J. Doka. A valuable collection of articles collected by the Hospice of America Foundation. The Healing Your Grieving Heart wisdom found in these articles can be like a candle, illuminating 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt. When someone we love dies, we the train to help make the journey more understandable and less must express our grief if we are to heal. This book offers practical, frightening. Authors include: Bonnie Carroll, Charles A. Corr, here-and-now suggestions for helping yourself mourn. Turn to any Earl A. Grollman, Betsy Beard, Patricia Loder, Nancy Boyd Webb, page and take a small step toward healing. Sometimes your friends want Harold Ivan Smith. to support you but don’t know how. Code: JWGO Price: $9.95 Code: HYGO Price: $11.95 If I Could Just See HopeBy Darcie Sims. Includes normal isn’t normal anymore, memories: what used to be, so you think you’re going crazy?, winter’s gloom, the other side of grief and if I could just see hope, plus more. Her books are lovingly done and perfect for everyone! See page 18 for Darcie’s newest books, Footsteps Through Grief and The Other Side of Grief. Code: IIBO Price: $13.95 A Grief Guide and Healing Journal by Paul Alexander. This beautiful grief guide and healing workbook is designed to help us not only explore our lives facing loss, but also help us align to our own inner power for guidance and strength. The accompanying CD can aid to the book or be used on its own. Code: GGHC Price: $15.95
Grief Entanglements: Understanding Unresolved Grief and What You Can Do About It is for the grieving person who experiences one or more of the following: unresolved feelings and emotions. This original work introduces a simple, yet extremely effective perspective on processing unresolved grief. Professional Counselor, Sharon Greenlee, identifies six sets of story patterns that emerge repeatedly. These patterns involve circumstances or issues that may cause the grieving person to become stuck in the grief process. Code: GFNO Price: $10.95 Grieving the Death of a Friend by Harold Ivan Smith. The death of a friend is one of the most significant but unrecognized experiences of grief in American culture. Smith guides the reader to move with rather than against the natural grief process as he explores its many aspects. Code: GDFO Price: 17.99
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Adult Grief Resources Holidays and Special Days
Helping Others
Not Just Another Day Families, grief and special days by Missy Lowery. Covers the more common holidays and gives good ideas for including children in celebrating birthdays and Christmas. Includes a list of things to do to take care of yourself for a month! (This is our number one selling book during the holidays.) Price: $4.00 Code: NJAC
What Can I Say and Do? How to support someone who is grieving a loss. By Kelly Osmont. This booklet is an aid to those who care about someone but are not sure how to help. You will learn that it takes very little effort to be a big support to someone who is grieving. Gives confidence and understanding to those who want to help. Code: WCIC Price: $4.99
How Will I Get Through the Holidays? 12 Ideas for Those Whose Loved One Has Died by James Miller. Includes express emotions, take charge, plan ahead, remember to remember, do something for someone else, and harbor hope. Code: HWIO Price: $6.95
What Will Help Me?/How Can I Help? by Jim Miller. A double book that includes 12 things for the griever to do and 12 insights for family and friends. Make sure your nonverbal language says what you want it to, including your facial expression, the way you hold your body, the way you maintain your gaze. Code: WWHO Price: $6.95
Helping the Bereaved Celebrate the Holidays A Sourcebook for Planning Instructional and Remembrance Events by James Miller. A step-by-step guide to designing what you’ll do, the time of gathering, poems, leader and people responses, and many other general guidelines. Code: HBCO Price: $7.95 Getting Past Christmas: Holiday Help. (Vignette) Carlene Enroth’s ideas for coping during the Christmas season. Offers ten important ideas for taking care of yourself during this holiday. Price: 75¢ Code: GPCC
Stepping Through the Awkwardness How to Help Someone Who is Grieving the Death of a Loved One by Marilyn Gryte. REVISED. Contains clear guidelines for how to be supportive to those who grieve. Chapters include: Four Guiding Steps of Grief Support, Keeping Step Through Their Journey, Keeping Yourself Refilled and Summing it Up. Sections include questions to ponder and discuss. “Remember, your greatest gift is your caring presence.” Code: STAC Price: $4.99 The Art of Being a Healing Presence-A Guide for Those in Caring Relationships by James Miller. Make a difference in the lives of others by being present in a way that is healing, nurturing, and potentially even transforming. For professionals, volunteers, and friends. Code: ABHO Price: $7.95
Holiday Blues-A Self-Help Manual on Grief through the Holidays by Dr. Clarence Tucker. Discusses how you can manage your grief during the holidays and other special days. Includes information on holiday feelings, pattern changes and pre-planning advice. Includes a candlelighting ceremony and memorial ritual. Revised! Price: $4.00 Code: HOBC
Shelter in the Storm Helping others through Grief by Beverley C. Hardesty. Gives helpful ideas on how you can help someone in the beginning of their grief and down the road. A survey gives us the input of people that had experienced grief due to the death of a loved one. Code: SHSO Price: $7.95
Handling the Holidays DVD Featuring Darcie Sims. 55 minutes. If someone is missing from your family this holiday season and you aren’t quite sure what to do with the empty chair, this video is for you. Includes information about grief and many coping skills. Code: HHVO Price: $30.00
This Time of Caregiving Words of Encouragement & Hope by James E. Miller with Christen Pettit Miller. It’s not uncommon for this to be ranked as one of the most challenging episodes in a person’s life. At the same time, the caregiving experience can be quite rewarding – full of closeness and rich with meaning. Each page is filled with comfort and hope. Code: TOCO Price: $3.95
Thoughts for the Holidays Finding Permission to Grieve by Doug Manning. Begins with thoughts for the holidays, the waves of grief, the holiday dilemma, permission to do what you can do, permission to change traditions, and permission to find safe people. Price: $3.25 Code: THOO
The Art of Helping Others - The authors argue for ways of approaching helping and counselling that are rooted in empathy and commitment, drawing upon the experiences and practice wisdom of youth workers, housing support and hostel workers, the clergy and those working in a religious setting, educators and settlement and community workers. This book will be essential reading for students on professional training programs. Code: AHOO Price: $29.95
A guide to help families navigate through grief towards healing. . .During the Holidays by David J. Robers and Linda B. Findlay. Bereaved parents David and Linda wrote this book to provide comfort and hope to the bereaved during the holiday season and during significant events. Practical information, personal stories and inspirational quotes will help you navigate your way through the holidays. Price: $5.00 Code: MDHO When the Holidays Hurt: Practical Ideas and inspiration for healing grief by Nan Zastrow. The death of someone loved may be the reason associated with the lonesomeness and pain. Life and Holidays, as you once knew them, have changed. In this collections of articles and essays, Nan writes about managing the traditions, transforming the holiday and alllowing family to move forward. Price: $7.95 Code: WHHO The Christmas Cactus by Elizabeth Wrenn Megan doesn’t want to hear that her Nana is dying. She picks up one of Nana’s plants and tries to bring it back to health. The Christmas season just isn’t the same - all of the colors of the season seem to be gone. But after Nana dies, Megan gets a very special present. Large print. Code: CRCC Price: $9.95
In the Midst of Caregiving: Whether you come to Caregiving by Choice, Chance, or Circumstance by Darcie Sims and Bob Baugher. Are you a caregiver in the midst of caring for someone with an illness, injury, disability or limited time to live? Or do you know someone who is? Written in an easy-to-read conversational style, it is a guidebook for those caring for a loved one. Code: IMCO Price: $12.00 Griefprints: A Practical Guide for Supporting a Grieving Person Radha Stern offers compassionate and sound guidance for understanding and helping a grieving loved one. “Grief is like fingerprints; everyone grieves in their own way,” she says. But so few of us know what to do and say in the face of grief. We agonize about saying the “right” thing and then second guess ourselves no matter what we say, struggle to find ways to be of practical help, and worry that our attempts at being supportive are starting to feel like intrusions. This book will help you find the right words to say. Code: GRPO Price: $14.95
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Adult Grief Resources Suicide & Homicide Survivors Ask Me. . . 30 Things I Want You To Know How to be a Friend to a Survivor of Suicide by Nan Zastrow, founder of Wings, a non-profit resource center. A gentle guide for those who have a friend or family member that has experienced the death of a loved one to suicide. The information in this book speaks not only to survivors of suicide, but to anyone who grieves, about the elements of grief and the depth of sadness. If you allow a griever to teach you about the uniqueness of his or her grief, you may learn so much more about the sanctity of life. Code: ASMC Price: $5.95 When Someone You Love Completes Suicide This is survivable. Sondra Sexton-Jones found her husband after he completed suicide. With gentle repetition, Sondra tells you what to expect, what you may feel, and that this is survivable. There will be times when you will reel with emotions so powerful that you may question your ability to survive. New Edition Code: WSLC Price: $4.99 Unfinished Conversations–Healing from Suicide and Loss–A Guided Journey by Robert E. Lesoine with Marilynne Chophel. This book offers survivors effective means to face their own experience and open to the potential for healing and a new life. Anyone left after suicide can take this journey past trauma and find greater perspective, meaning, and well-being in their lives. Code: UFCO Price: $14.95 After Suicide Loss: Coping with your grief by Bob Baugher, Ph.D. and Jack Jordan, Ph.D. A complete resource that covers the first few days, the first few weeks, the first few months, the first year and beyond, and includes stories of survivors. Code: ASLO Price: $10.00 Healing the Hurt Spirit Daily Affirmations for People Who Have Lost a Loved One to Suicide by Catherine Greenleaf. Speaks to survivors about the crucial stages of recovery from suicide loss, offering hope and peace of mind. A page for every day of a full year. An excellent resource and a thoughtful gift. Code: HTHO Price: $15.95 After A Parent’s Suicide Helping Children Heal by Margo Requarth, M.A., M.F.T. A guide to help the surviving parent faced with the monumental task of tending to the emotional lives of the children left behind. Focuses on the specific needs encountered by children and teens coping with the suicide of a parent. Code: APSO Price: $14.95 Dying to be Free-Honest, gentle advice for those who have survived an unspeakable loss, the suicide of a loved one. Transforming suffering into strength, misconceptions into understanding, and shame into dignity, Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through the dangerous silence and stigma surrounding suicide to bring readers this much-needed book. Includes personal stories from others who experienced this profound loss. Code: DTBO Price: $12.95 But I Didn’t Say Goodbye -For parents and professionals helping child suicide survivors by Barbara Rubel. A needed book for caregivers, this book has personal stories, questions and answers, and intervention strategies, plus up-to-date resources. Includes a worksheet with helpful discussion questions. Code: BIDO Price: $14.95 Touched by Suicide–Hope and Healing After Loss.Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one’s death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. And it sends us on a lifelong search for answers, both to the practical questions and the deepest question of all: Why? In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD and Carla Fine, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide. Code: TCSO Price: $18.00
I Wasn’t Ready To Say Goodbye Surviving, coping & healing after the sudden death of a loved one by Brook Noel & Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. Provides a valuable anchor for the griever who faces the challenges of a sudden loss and needs to rebuild their life. Includes grief recovery exercises. Code: IWRO Price: $15.99 Coping With Traumatic Death: Homicide A book to help out in your time of need by Bob Baugher, Ph. D. and Lew Cox. This book is designed to help you understand what you are going through and guide you through the homicide investigation. This complete book begins with the first few days and ends with the first year. Code: CWTO Price: $7.00 Grief Works–Sudden Death When death comes suddenly, unexpected, uninvited and often violently by Donna Reutzel Underwood. From Donna’s own personal experience and the stories of others who have lost a loved one suddenly, this book helps guide the reader through the many emotions that come with this type of grief of homicide, suicide, accident and more. Code: GRWO Price: $15.00 No Time For Goodbyes Coping with Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death by Janice Harris Lord. Survivors grieving the tragic death of a loved one will find here deep understanding and insight as well as detailed practical information on dealing with legal and financial issues. Code: NTGO Price: $12.95 Understanding Guilt During Bereavement by Robert Baugher. Includes guilt statements, self-punishment, dimensions of guilt, types of guilt, if-only, moral, grief, recovery or getting better, and suggestions for coping. It is important to understand that guilt has a function and is therefore a common part of the bereavement process. Code: GUGO Price: $10.00 Understanding Anger During Bereavement By Bob Baugher. It is not unusual to experience anger following the death of someone you love. It is okay to be angry, and you can use your anger to communicate important information. Begins with talking about what anger is, what causes anger, the positives, the negatives, and suggestions for coping with anger. Code: GUAO Price: $8.00
Men and Grief Swallowed by a Snake The gift of the masculine side of healing by Thomas Golden. Discover new and powerful ways to heal, how the genders differ in their healing, greater understanding between partners, examples of successful and unique healing strategies, new ways to understand your grief, and ways the individual’s loss can impact the entire family. Code: SBSO Price: $13.95 A Man You Know Is Grieving When A Man Faces Grief. A double book with 12 ideas for helping him heal from loss, and 12 practical ideas to help you heal from loss. By James Miller and Thomas Golden. Brings to light ways to help men who are grieving while offering support to a man. Code: MYKO Price: $6.95 Men and Grief DVD This DVD with eight touching views of grief from men who have walked its path. They talk about how they have painfully lost wives, children, siblings, parent and friends. Through their sharing we get a better understanding of what to expect as our own grief process unfolds. Code: MAVO Price: $25.00 Men and Grief:20 Years later. DVD - The same men who are interviewed in the first DVD are together again, 25 years later. Learn from their remarkable journey. Code: MA2O Price: $25.00
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Adult Grief Resources Death
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Death of a Spouse or Life Partner
Finding Your Way after Your Parent Dies Hope for Grieving Adults by Rev. Richard Gilbert. Even adults feel a deep sense of sadness after the death of a mother or father. This compassionate guide is for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties. Code: FYWO Price: $13.95 Losing A Parent Fiona Marshall calls this A personal guide to coping with that special grief that comes with losing a parent. Full of easy examples, stories, quotes and very timely advice. Includes a chapter on abandoned-child grief, and your surviving parent. A comforting guide for adult children. Code: LAPO Price: $15.95
A Journey Through Widowhood By Romaine Presnell. Reading this book is like having a friend give you a hug. Romaine’s journal after the death of her husband addresses the many emotions and situations that are a part of grieving the death of a spouse. The reader moves through the intense pain to begin the healing process. Code: JTWC Price: $5.95 Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies By Marta Felber. Offers a caring voice after experiencing the death of her own spouse. Support and encouragement on each page follows with a scripture and passages for reflection, along with small prayer. Code: FYSO Price: $14.95
Nobody’s Child Anymore Grieving, Caring, and Comforting When Parents Die by Barbara Bartocci. Stories from the author’s own experience of mourning the loss of two parents, as well as dozens of other stories. She leads us through four stages that most adults experience at some time: caring for a dying parent, mourning the loss, caring for the parent left behind, and finding new meaning beyond grief. Code: NCAO Price: $13.95 In My Mother’s Kitchen–An Introduction to the Healing Power of Reminiscence by Robin A. Edgar. Focuses on the steps to recalling, recording and celebrating significant memories that help the reader recognize and value the individuals and incidents that shape our lives. Contains reminiscence recipes to recapture the sights, sounds and even smells that bring back the laughter from the past. Code: IMMO Price: $11.95 Grieving the Death Of A Mother By Harold Ivan Smith. A mother’s death can make a shamble of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others, Harold Ivan Smith guides readers through their grief, from the process of dying through the acts of remembering and honoring a mother after her death. Code: GDMO Price: $16 99
Widow to Widow Thoughtful, practical ideas for rebuilding your life: challenges, changes, decision-making & relationships by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, M.S. Explores every challenge: shock, grief, guilt and anger, special days, emptying his closet, repairs, decisions, dating, a survival checklist, journaling and money. Code: WRYO Price: $15.95 Partnered Grief When Gay and Lesbian Partners Grieve by Harold Ivan Smith, D.Min., FT with Joy Johnson. Quote from book: In a culture that expects grievers to get over it and move on, how do you intentionally and deliberately express your grief for a partner? This book provides the much needed comfort and support. Code: PNGC Price: $3.50 I Remember, I Remember A Keepsake Journal by Enid Traisman. There is space for photos, letters, stories, personal history and goodbyes. There is space for writing about difficult decisions, first venturing out, and hope. This journal can be used as a keepsake for the family to enjoy for generations. It may also be used as a personal journey through grief. Code: IRIC Price: $14.95
Always Too Soon By Allison Gilbert. Losing one’s parents is a universal experience. Whether it happens suddenly or over a long period of time, no other life passage is more profound and presents such a seismic shift in one’s perspective on life, career, and family. You’ll find words of comfort and inspiration from Rosanne Cash, Hope Edelman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Yogi Berra, Mariel Hemingway, Ice-T, Dennis Franz, Geraldine Ferraro, Rosanna Arquette, Dana Buchman, among others. Code: ATSO Price: $14.95
Healing Moments: A Collection of Inspiring Reflections After the Death of a Spouse by Mary J. Nowyj. Excerpt: My late husband and I used to pick up loose change we had found on our daily walks. It became a game for us as we tallied up the amount we collected and threw the coins in a small jar. Once, at the end of the year, we had collected over twentyfive dollars. After he died, I picked up change constantly to continue the game, but mostly out of the old notion that somehow he was more with me, close by again. Code: HEMC Price: $8.95
Losing a Parent–Passage to a New Way of Living: A Guide to facing Death and Dying by Alexandra Kennedy. Kennedy shares her own story of facing the loss of a parent and offers innovative strategies for healing and transformation. When a mother or father dies, an extraordinary cycle of experience begins. The outer changes that touch you directly - the family turmoil & loss - are linked to a profound inner transformation. Chapters include: A Journey Through Grief, The Stages, Creating a Sanctuary, New Perspectives, Saying Goodbye, and more. Code: LPAO Price: $16.00
The Widower’s Toolbox: Repairing Your Life After Losing Your Spouse by Gerald J. Schaefer with Tom Bekkers, MSW, ACSW. While the grieving process is individualized regardless of gender, there are distinct differences in the manner in which males and females grieve. There is no right way to grieve; however this book focuses on the characteristics that make the healing process unique to bereaved men, and serves as a repair manual to make healing more complete and ultimately effective. Code: WTBO Price: $14.95
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman. Ask any woman whose mother has died and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as profoundly changed by her mother’s death as she was by her mother’s life. And althrough a mother’s mortality is as inevitable as nightfall, no other book has addressed the lasting effects of this incalculable loss. The book that women of all ages look to for understanding and comfort when their mothers die. Code: MODO Price: $16.99 On Love Alone–Words to Heal the Heart on the Death of a Father by Jonathon Lazear. Most of us find ourselves wading through memories and emotions, looking for comfort and meaning. This fine little book grew out of Jonathon Lazear’s own bereavement. A baby boomer who’d always found comfort in the wisdom of the written word, Lazear turned to his own reservoir of stories, talked with friends and family, and mined his bookshelves to produce this wise and comforting collection. Code: ONLO Price: $11.95
Surviving Widowhood with Maggie Montclair and Friends Along with her ornery friend Gertie whose amusing personal experiences with widowhood include burying four husbands whom she swears all died from natural causes, Maggie offers gentle support and candid guidance that encourages widows to step outside their comfort zones, conquer loneliness, find new friends, and ultimately embrace a new chapter in their lives filled with laughter, promise, and fun. Code: SRWO Price: $14.95 Second Firsts–Live, Laugh, and Love Again by Christina Rasmussen. Using practical exercises and stories drawn from her own life and those of her clients, Rasmussen guides you through five stages of healing that help you open up to new possibilities. From acknowledging your fear, to recognizing where you stand now, to taking active steps toward a new life, Rasmussen helps you move past the pain and shows that it’s never too late to step out of the gap and experience life again-as if for the first time. Code: SFLO Price: $15.95
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Illness and Death & Dying
Life With Grief by Scott Mastley. Includes personal experiences with sibling grief, survey results from bereaved parents and bereaved siblings, how to bridge the communication gap between parents and children, and dealing with unanswered questions. Code: LWGO Price: $14.97
When You’re Ill or Incapacitated When You’re the Caregiver By Jim Miller. A double book that includes 12 things to do if someone you care for is ill or incompacitated, and 12 things to remember in times of sickness, injury, or disability. Code: WYIO Price: $6.95 Final Gifts Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying. By Callanan and Kelley. An intimate look at the experiences of the terminally ill at the edge of life. Through these stories you will understand the needs, feelings and insights into the dying patient. Discover the wisdom and love the dying leave for us. Code: FIGO Price: $17.00 When You Know You’re Dying 12 Thoughts to Guide You Through the Days Ahead. Jim Miller has created twelve basic and helpful guidelines to assist people who know their time on earth is limited. Understands the importance of body, mind, heart and soul. Code: WYKO Price: $6.95 One You Love Is Dying 12 Thoughts to Guide You On the Journey. Ideas to help you make the most of this time of caring for another person while caring for yourself. Code: OYLO Price: $6.95
Surviving the Death of a Sibling Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies by T.J. Wray. Discusses searching for and finding meaning in your sibling’s passing, using a grief journal to record your emotions, choosing a grief partner to help you though tough times, and dealing with insensitive remarks made by others. Code: SDSO Price: $15.00 Sibling Grief Healing after the death of a sister or brother by P. Gill White, Ph.D. Validates the emotional significance of sibling loss. She draws on clinical experience, research, and wisdom from hundreds of bereaved siblings to explain the five healing tasks specific to sibling grief. A mix of information, personal reflection, and poetry. Code: SLGO Price: $12.95 Making Lemonade Choosng a Positive Pathway After Losing Your Sibling by Zander Sprague. This book is for anyone who has lost a sibling and wants some guidance on how they too can find their own positive pathway. Gives you a compass to help navigate bereaved siblings through this difficult time. Code: MKLO Price: $14.97 Griefjourney Notes on Grief for Teens, Young Adults and Anyone Who Is Grieving by Mark Scrivani. Talks about the “Firsts” of grief, changes and feeling helpless, then goes into the pain of grief, coping, holidays, hope, saying goodbye, and how our love lives on. Reader friendly and packed with information. Code: GRJO Price: $6.00
Journey’s End A guide to understanding the dying process by Deborah Sigrist. Step-by-step she takes us to observe and understand a journey that every one must make some day. Explains physical, emotional and spiritual changes that occur when someone you love is dying. Code: JOEO Price: $4.00
Finding Your Way Through Grief by Darcie D. Sims and Alicia S. Franklin. A bereaved mother and daughter team explore the ways that temperament, personality, gender roles and expectations influence the grieving process. Identify your own unique coping style and begin to understand your journey through grief. Dare to be as different as you already are and learn to cherish the differences, not use them as weapons. Code: FWTO Price: $12.00
A Celebration of Life A journal for the living by Paula Cellar. This journal will hold stories in writing to be passed on to the next generation. Has sections for childhood, teen challenges, favorite and least favorite work, hopes and dreams, what life has meant, and closing thoughts. Code: CELC Price: $8.95
Adult Sibling Loss–Stories, Reflections and Ripples by Brenda J. Marshall, PhD, CT. The author, a bereaved sibling herself, artfully weaves her story throughout, adding to the richness of the text. Through these collective stories, readers are invited to explore their own reactions and reflect on the many ways siblings affect each other over the long term. Bereaved siblings, clinicians, medical professionals, therapists, social workers, funeral directors, religious leaders, bereavement groups, and anyone who supports or knows a bereaved sibling will find benefit in this book. Code: ALSO Price: $33.95
Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief by Harriet Hodgson and Lois Krahn. This is a self-help book for anyone who is going through anticipatory grief - early grief before a death or dreaded event has occured. It is packed with coping tips and, best of all, 114 Healing Steps, which lead the reader to his or her healing path. Code: STYO Price: $13.99 Changing The Way We Die–Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement by Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel. More than 76 Million baby boomers are starting to turn 65 and 97 percent of Americans want to be better informed about end-of-life care. This book is a vital and uplifting resource for readers facing life’s most challenging moments. This book is for patients and caregivers. Code:CWDO Price: $16.95 Conversations–Living Through the Process of Dying–A Handbook and Journal For You, Your Family and Friends by Jackie J. Bates, R.N.,CHPN. This book will help you have those important conversations that arise when the end of life is near. Whether you choose to use a hospice team, the questions and information in this book will help you live your last days on your terms and will be a guide for caregivers. Code: CONO Price: $15.00
I Can’t Stop Crying–Grief and Recovery–A Compassionate Guide by John D. Martin and Frank Ferris. The death of someone close -- a familiy member, spouse, or partner -- can result in feelings of overwhelming grief. At the same time, society unrealistically expects people to recover from grief as quickly as possible. I Can’t Stop Crying looks at grieving as a painful but necessary process. The authors emphasize the importance of giving permission to grieve and suggest steps for rebuiliding life without the one who is gone. They also look at how such a loss affects relationships with family. Code: ICSO Price: $14.99 The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There’s Life After Death, Annie Kagan shares the extraordinary story of her after death communications (ADC) with her brother Billy, who began speaking to her just weeks after his unexpected death. One of the most detailed and profound ADC’s ever recorded, Kagan’s book takes the reader beyond the near-death experience. Billy’s vivid, real-time account of his on-going journey through the mysteries of death will change the way you think about life, death and your place in the Universe. Code: ABFO Price: $16.95
The Art of Being a Healing Presence By Jim Miller with Susan Cutshall. A Guide for Those in Caring Relationships. Learn how to make a difference in the lives of others by being present in a way that is healing, nurturing, and potentially even transforming. Discover what’s both natural and surprising about this process, including how it affects your life as well. Use the insights presented here in your professional responsibilities, friends and family. Code: ABHO Price: $7.95
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Pet Loss for Adults
When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing by Alan Wolfelt. When your pet dies, you may struggle with your grief. You may feel surprised at the depth of your sadness. This book affirms the pet owner’s grief and helps you understand why your feelings are so strong. It also offers practical suggestions for mourning—expressing your grief outside of yourself—so that you can heal. Code: WYDO Price: $9.95
How To Start and Lead A Bereavement Support Group by Alan Wolfelt. Begins with the role of the support group, getting started, leadership roles, planning your meetings, evaluating your group’s progress, and a directory of self-help organizations. Code: BSGO Price: $10.00
My Personal Pet Remembrance Journal By Enid Traisman. A place for you to share the feelings you have after the death of a pet. Helps you express the feelings and thoughts that are an essential part of working through and integrating grief. Code: PPRO Price: $9.95
Six Simple Weeks By Eloise Cole and Joy Johnson. Ever wanted to start a really good support group and didn’t quite know how? Here’s the book you want. We define leadership and group members with special needs, and give you six simple sessions as a model. Our goal: to make starting and leading a grief support group both enriching and fun for leaders and participants. Code: SSWC Price: $8.95
Good-bye My Friend Grieving the Loss of a Pet by Mary and Herb Montgomery. Offers consolation at the time of death and comforts the pet owner throughout the grieving process. Feelings common to loss are explored. Beautiful illustrations throughout. Contents include: I Still Remember, The Pain of Loss, Grieving Your Own Way, The Stages of Grief, Helping Children Deal with Loss and Should I get Another Pet? Code: GMFO Price: $6.95
Support Cards by GriefWatch.These support cards can be useful in a number of ways. For a support group, pass the stack of cards around and have each person randomly pick a card. They can in turn discuss how that particular question affects their individual life. Or, as the facilitator, pick out a card yourself to help you direct the conversation. Code: SUCO Price: $7.50
Grief at Work
Bandages For Your Heart: DVD. A revolutionary program designed to help you experience immediate relief from the emotional pain that grief can bring. Filled with specific techniques to harness your own inner healing power, this program gives you the strategies to stop hurting – day or night and weeks or years after your loss. Participate in the interactive segment and experience for yourself the healing benefits of: Drumming, Laughter, Healing Music, Ecstatic Dance, Relaxation Meditation & Yogic Breathing. Code: BFYO Price: $19.95
More Good Words-Grief In The Workplace by Dr. Beth L. Hewett and Dr. Richard Ottenstein. When grief hits, we hurt. More Good Words: Grief in the Workplace explains that grief and mourning are not the same thing: grief is passive (it happens to us) and mourning is active (we do something with it). Other Beth Hewett books include More Good Words: A Practical Guide for Remembering Our Loved Ones, Good Words: Memorializing Through a Eulogy, and the Good Words series of booklets. Code: MGOO Price: $9.95
Lazarus, Come Out! This powerful workbook guides the participant on a ten-week spiritual quest for healing and hope following the death of a child or other catastrophic loss. It is structured in such a way as to invite reflection and personal growth. The authors share deeply from their own personal experience and faith journey after the death of their son. Code: LCOO Price: $15.95
Funerals More Good Words: Practical Activities for Mourning by Beth L. Hewett, Ph.D. Viewing grief as a journey rather than an obstacle, this book uses five realms of experience (emotional, spiritual, physical, cognitive, and social) to provide concrete mourning activities to address grief. These activities are ones that readers can do as written or adapt to fit their own unique circumstances and grief. Code: MGOO Price: $19.95
How to Design and Facilitate Grief Support Groups - Compiled from many years of practical experience, this manual is inspired and guided by two key concepts: 1. Grief is part of the human condition and natural life cycle. It is not a personal weakness, a mental illness or a punishment. 2. Grievers will eventually reach a place of emotional, physical and spiritual equilibrium. 99 pages. 3-ring binder. Code: HDFO Price: $24.95 e Journe
Help for the Whole Family
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Also available from author Beth Hewett are six booklets adapted from Good Words: Memorializing Through A Eulogy. Eulogies and Religious Settings (GWRG), Eulogies for Children (GECG), Eulogy Writing & Deliverying (GWDG), Nontraditional Eulogies (GNTG), Eulogies with Children’s Voices (GCVG) and Eulogies and Difficult Situatioins (GDSG). Price: $5.95 each
Strength for the Journey-Help for the Whole Family in the Shadow of Grief and Mourning: A Supportive Resource for Facilitators, Educators, Counselors and Families by Karen Lindwall-Bourg and Geraldine Haggard. Provides tools that will pull your family together and pool your resources on this journey of hope and reconciliation. Code: SFJO Price: $19.95
Setting Up and Facilitating Bereavement Support Groups: A Practical Guide by Dodi Graves. It guides the reader through all the stages of setting up a group, and examines different types of facilitation and the skills needed. Case studies illustrate different types of group, such as closed, time-limited groups and open groups, and the potential of online groups is discussed. Code: SUFO Price: $29.95
GriefWork - Healing from Loss is for therapists, counselors, group facilitators, and other professionals working to help grieving people heal from their losses.The handouts guide clients through stages of shock, disorganization, reorganization, and a New Normal, a term to convey that everyone’s grief has a unique expression and is that particular person’s ‘normal’. Clients are encouraged to deal with sorrow, express feelings, share with peers, develop internal and external support systems, accept, adjust, and move forward. Code: GWSO Price: $49.95
Women, Aging and Grief The Boob Girls #1 Best Seller. The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12 by Joy Johnson. Four diverse widows take off in secret for parts unknown, leaving no forwarding address. The burned out old broads who dine together at Meadow Lakes table 12 find adventure, romance, mystery and prove there is life after grief. Grab your latest AARP advertisement for a bookmark and read this laugh-out-loud fun read and a look into relationships every mature woman wants and deserves. The Boob Girls Code: BOGO Price: $14.95 The The Boob Girls 2 Code: BOTO Price: $14.95 The Boob Girls 3 Code: BG3O Price: $14.95 The Boob Girls 4 Code: BG4O Price: $14.95 Girls f The Boob Girls 5 Code: BG5O Price: $14.95 The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12 A Novel by Joy Johnson
The Spiritual Woman-Quotes to Refresh and Sustain Your Soul. More than a quote book, contains a discussion of spirituality, information on meditation types, and meditation tips. “I compiled this collection of quotes to inspire women,”Hodgson said. “When I read the finished book, I realized it could also empower them.” Men will also find empowerment within its pages. Code: TSWO Price: $10.95
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No Time To Say Goodbye–Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One by Carla Fine. She brings suicide survival from the darkness into light, speaking frankly about the overwhelming feelings of confusion, guilt, shame, anger, and loneliness that are shared by all survivors. And, perhaps most important, for the first time in any book, she allows survivors to see that they are not alone in their feelings of grief and despair. Code: NTSO Price: $14.95
My Son. . . My Son. . . A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss or Suicide. Iris Bolton tells the personal story of her son’s suicide. It is the story of a devastating tragedy and triumph. Parents will find comfort and understanding in this compassionate book. Code: MSMO Price: $15.00
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Suicide of a Child For parents whose child died by suicide by Adina Wrobleski. Goes into detail about victimization, social stigma, guilt, anger, history and recovery. The main thing for you to remember is: You are not to blame for the death of your child. The decision for death has to belong to your child, not you. Code: SUCC Price: $3.99
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A Winding Road: A Handbook for Those Supporting the Suicide Bereaved. For the people who want to support the bereaved, or are asked to support the bereaved (professional or volunteer), it can be difficult to understand the grief from suicide. Michelle Linn-Gust, Ph.D., and John Peters, M.Suicidology, address issues around the topic from why suicide happens to helping children cope and how culture and religion take a role in how suicide and suicide grief are viewed. Code: AWRO Price: $15.00
For additional resources look in Suicide Survivors, Homicidal Bereavement, Men and Grief, Journaling, Illness, Holidays, Special Days, and General Grief Resources. The Grief of Parents When A Child Dies by TCF. Many facets of parental and sibling grief are discussed in a clear, sensitive manner. Includes the grief response, coping with loss is difficult, recovery is possible, communicating with the spouse, communicating with the children, and fears about going crazy. Code: GOPO Price: $4.00
The Reason is a gripping, true-to-life account of a Midwestern mother who, after the suicide of her 19 year old son, managed to find her way out of the black hole of grief and formulate a plan for recovery. It offers a hand to hold for those who must walk out of the funeral home, and guides them - intimately - along the sequential journey from heartache to healing. Code: RHHO Price: $18.99
Suicide and Drug Overdose When a Child Dies From Drugs Practical Help for Parents by Patricia Wittberger and Russ Wittberger. When experiencing the ultimate tragedy of a child’s death from drugs and alcohol, parents find themselves isolated in a fathomless, dark void, wondering whether they will ever resurface into the real world again.This book is written by parents who have been there. Code: WCDO Price: $14.00 Real Men Do Cry by Eric Hipple bares his soul in this incredible story of hope and triumph. After his 15-year-old son’s suicide, Eric fell into a debilitating downward spiral. This page turner chronicles Eric’s transformation as he seeks treatment for his own depression and learns to overcome the guilt of missing the warning signs of suicide. Includes practical checklists and resources for families living with depression. Code: RMDO Price: $12.95
Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief by Michelle Linn-Gust, Ph.D.. The grief journey following a suicide loss is not a quick and easy path. Because people are unique, as are the life experiences of individuals, the road can open up in several ways for each person. guides the family unit with a road map to navigate suicide grief as individuals and also as part of the family unit with the ultimate goal of strengthening the family even after a devastating suicide loss. Code: RKRO Price: $17.95 Ask Me. . . 30 Things I Want You To Know How to be a Friend to a Suicide Survivor by Nan Zastrow, founder of Wings, a non-profit resource center. A gentle guide for those who have a friend or family member that has experienced the death of a loved one to suicide. #2 – Acknowledge my loved one’s death. . . show me that you truly care. Code: ASMC Price: $5.95 For the Love of Daniel-Daniel was a handsome, charismatic bundle of contradictions. Diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety disorders, ADD and alcohol dependency, he became a high school dropout and opiate addict. To the world he was a failure; to his many friends he was a star and a legend. This is an account of his life and of his after-life. Code: FLDO Price: $14.95
Suicide Survivors’ Handbook A Guide for the Bereaved and Those Who Wish to Help Them. By Trudy Carlson. Trudy wrote this book after the death of her son, Ben, to suicide. This book answers what every parent wants to know, the question WHY. It also covers the shame and guilt, and the anger associated with losing a loved one. Not only should every suicide survivor have this book, but friends and professionals as well. Code: SSHO Price: $15.95
Death of a Adult Child in the Military Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler. They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Journalist Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man’s effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace. Code: FNSO Price: $16.00 Heart of a Hawk-One Family’s Sacrifice & Journey Toward Healing by David and Deborah Tainsh. Patrick, David’s only child, was the pride of his life. He was an outstanding U.S. Army saving the lives of his commanding officer and other soldiers before succumbing to his own wounds. In the wake of their loss, David and Deborah battle horrific grief and anger while trying to hold their marriage-and one another-together in an unforgettable journey toward healing. Code: HAHO Price: $14.95 Surviving the Folded Flag. Compiled by Deborah H. Tainsh. Parents of war share stories of coping, courage, and faith. This collection of more than twenty-five stories from Gold Star parents celebrates the lives of their sons who died in service and offers hope and advice for other families facing such a loss. Bonus essays from a casualty assistance officer and a former soldier give deeper insight into how wartime death affects comrades. Code: SRFO Price: $14.95
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Death of a Child Into the Valley and Out Again The Story of a father’s Journey by Richard Edler. After the unexpected death of his son, Rich’s life seemed to stop. The next few years were spent climbing out of the bottom of a valley he had not known existed before. It is a story about what is important in life, sorrow, faith, acceptance and rebirth. Code: ITVO Price: $11.95 Healing A Father’s Grief Covers Role Problems including: Macho Man, Competitor, Protector, Provider, Problem Solver, Controller, and then Overcoming Role Problems. Code: HFGO Price: $3.50
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back is a collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child. This book is a collection of survival stories by men who have survived the worst possible loss and lived to tell the tale. They are real stories that pull no punches and are told with brutal honesty. Men that have shared their deepest and darkest moments. Code: GRDO Price: $19.95
Will Our Tears Forever Flow A father’s story of grief and hope by Ted Wampler. Ted’s daughter was killed when she lost control of her car. This book takes us on a journey of grief, shock, depression, denial, honesty, and the healing process. Powerful because of the honesty, emotion, and healing process laid bare in straight, well-written plain talk. Code: WOTO Price: $3.50 When Courage Lies in Letting Go Formerly titled Fly Away Home. Turning Toward End-of Life Palliative Care for Your Child by Deborah Davis, Ph.D. Offers support from other parents who have made the decision to end aggressive intervention. Question and answer format makes it easier for parents to find the right words to say to others. Code: WCLC Price: $6.95 Butterflies, Angels & Roses Messages of hope and healing from a bereaved mother’s heart by Frances Wohlenhaus-Munday. This book is a testament to a grieving mother who chose to pick the flowers on her journey, and share them with us. Fran’s symbols of butterflies, angels, and roses offers comfort to those who mourn. Code: BARO Price: $12.95 Stars in the Deepest Night After the Death of a Child by Genesse Bourdeau Gentry. A collection of poetry in which a bereaved parent describes the nightmare, isolation and transformation of grief after the death of a child. Code: SDNO Price: $10.95 Catching the Light -Coming Back to Life after the Death of a Child is a collection of poetry and prose from the author of Stars in the Deepest Night. Now she takes us further along in her journey after the death of a child, sharing the renewed hope, joy and new life she has found in grief’s garden. Most importantly, perhaps, the author shows us that no matter how many years have passed since their death, our loved ones can still be found in all the pages of our lives. Code: CALO Price: $15.99 Love Never Dies–A Mother’s Journey from Loss to Love by Sandy Goodman. Sandra shares her story in a way that will help you find your own path through your most private pain. You, too, can emerge from the deepest hurt and darkness into the awareness that the love you lost still remains with you in so many ways. Hardcover. Code: LNDO Price: $12.95 My Songs of Grief and Hope by Dwight Patton. Author of Andy’s Moutain, Dwight has poems from the masculine side of grieving. Poems include: Grief is Like..., Talk it Out, Sharing, Been There, To Fathers, If Only, Why? and more. Code: MSGO Price: $12.95 Beyond Tears: Living after Losing a Child. Revised edition. With a brand-new chapter written by young adults. Nine mothers who lost a child and met in a support group give comfort and direction to bereaved parents. They candidly share with other grieving parents what to expect in the first year and long beyond. Authors include: Phyllis Levine, Long, Rita Volpe, Colletti, Goldstein, Cohen, Barkin, and Eisenberg. Code: BYTO Price: $14.99
The Tincture of Time: Restoration After the Death of a Child After almost two decades of grieving the loss of her son Peter, Marie again shares how life continues to change after losing a child. In essays and stories she tells how time has impacted her journey and invites several of her fellow travelers to share their own stories. This book is a perfect companion to “First You Die”, and describes perfectly how life and attitudes change after the death of a child. Code: TOTO Price: $12.99 First You Die Learn to Live After the Death of Your Child by Marie Levine. After several years of writing a regular column about the despair, anger and confusion she felt after the death of her only child, Marie weaves the story of her own bereavement into a collection of essays, poems and writings that chronicle her own surviving mother’s journey. Code: FYDO Price: $12.99 After The Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again - A Parent’s Guide to Coping with the Loss Of A Child by Elizabeth Mehren. Written from her own experiences, Elizabeth answers the question every bereaved parent asks, Will I ever get over it? Both a guide and a meditation, this book is valuable to friends and relatives. Code: ADHO Price: $13.99 The Bereaved Parent By Harriet Schiff. Many parents feel that no one can help because no one can understand the complex ramifications of their tragedy. Harriet wrote this book to help other bereaved parents. Offers guidance and step-by-step suggestions on how to cope with the stages of grief, from the funeral to rebuilding your marriage. Code: BEPO Price: $14.00 Standing Beside You A Book for Bereaved Parents by Linda Mauer. The purpose of this book is to give you hope and encouragement for the days, weeks, months, and years ahead of you. Chapters include surviving the first years, difficult situations, your child’s possessions, the death of an only child, and helping others. Code: SBYO Price: $15.95 The Death of a Child Reflections for Grieving Parents by Elaine Stillwell. Bereaved parents know the excruciating pain of losing a child. Elaine, mother of two children killed in a car accident, offers this collection of life-giving lessons gathered over years of experience as a grief minister. Includes creating a new normal, bearing the soul, seasons and more. Code: DECO Price: $10.95 When the Bough Breaks by Judith Bernstein, Ph.D. A poignant and sensitive book that offers bereaved parents the comfort of knowing how others have navigated this rutted road. With great honesty and empathy, it acknowledges that no family ever recovers from this tragedy, but rather adapts to a life irretrievable altered. Code: WBBO Price: $19.99 Dear Parents Letters to Bereaved Parents from Bereaved Parents. A support group in book form. Parents and others say what they would tell a grieving parent. Friends walk with you and let you know you are not alone. Code: DEPC Price: $11.95 I Walked A Mile With Sorrow For Bereaved Parents, Families, and Friends by Mary Cleckley. “The articles in this book came as a result of many years of attending and leading bereaved parents support groups. It was and is my hope that it will help not only the parents and their families better understand the normalcy of the feelings they are experiencing, but also those caring people who need that knowledge as well, so they can better provide the proper support.” Code: IWMC Price: $5.99
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Death of a Child Children Die, Too by Joy and Marv Johnson. This is one of the first grief books. We talk about feelings, dealing with guilt, facing sadness and moving on. There are sections for other children. A good first book for parents. No matter what you do to work through your grief, you’ll find that everyone has different feelings and emotions. Code: CDTC Price: $4.00 Available in Spanish: Los Niños Murien Tambien Code: CDSC Price: $4.00 Healing A Parent’s Grieving Heart 100 Practical ideas after your child dies by Alan Wolfelt. Offers 100 ideas that help parents understand and reconcile grief. Covers common challenges such as dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice from others and exploring feelings of guilt. Code: HPGO Price: $11.95 The Birdhouse Project is a project-based healing book meant to help the reader move past the loss. The book will stir the emotions of the heart, then guide the mind through a process of connecting steps of the healing process to a specific part of the birdhouse. After completing each step by taking ownership and facing the limits in one’s life, then follow the final process to assemble the birdhouse, which symbolizes the new life you are welcoming. Code: BHAO Price: $24.95 Flowers on a Child’s Grave By Lisa Epperson. A collection of heartbreaking stories from 14 families that had to face the devastation of losing a child and how they continued to live. This is a perfect resource for someone going through the pain and anguish of losing a child. Code: FLOO Price: $14.95
Grief Recovery HandBook–Newly updated and expanded to commemorate its 20th anniversary—this classic resource helps people complete the grieving process and move toward recovery and happiness. Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Code: GRHO Price: $16.99 Happy Again-Your New and Meaningful Life After Loss. “Will I survive? Will I ever be happy again? Questions that Harriet Hodgson asked herself after she was left to raise her twin grandchildren, while grieving for four family members, including her daughter. Harriet reminds us that we are not alone in our grief and, though losses may define our lives, they will not destroy them. This book tugged at my heartstrings. Harriet’s account of a journey from despair to hope is filled with practical suggestions on how to once again have a meaningful life. Code: HAOO Price: $10.95 When Your Child Dies-Tools for Mending Parents’ Broken Hearts provides grief-stricken parents with the tools to navigate the grieving process and addresses the challenges of the intrusion of the media, the justice system, medical system and coroners. Grieving parents will learn how to reduce anxiety and depression and promote healthy selfsoothing, identify and address issues that linger and cause emotional pain following the child’s death and incorporate their loss into their lives in healthy ways. Code: WYCO Price: $14.95 Why Are The Casseroles Always Tuna? A Loving Look At the Lighter Side of Grief Written by a bereaved mother and national presenter, Darcie Sims. A collection of thoughts about the needs of the grieving. If you are grieving, you know how important it is to find some comfort, joy, and even humor. Code: WACO Price: $9.95
I Have No Intention of Saying Good-bye Edited by Sandy Fox. Five or more years after the death of their children, 25 families open their hearts and share stories of courage, hope and their attempts to make sense out of the most unbearable loss of all. In addition to helping themselves, learn how these parents help others and what advice they give to those still having difficulty living in a world without their child. Code: IHNO Price: $15.95
Letters To My Son By Mitch Carmody. Authored by a grieving father whose 9-year-old son died following a two-year battle with a recurring malignant brain tumor. A compelling story of love, loss and recovery that will grab your heart, nourish your soul and open your eyes. Beautiful poems and illustrations by the author are woven throughout the text. Code: LTMO Price: 28.00
Creating a New Normal: A guide to coping and informational skills for bereaved parents, family members, friends, therapists and grief related organizations. New book by Sandy Fox. Over 80 coping techniques and strategies to help both the newly bereaved and the seasoned griever highlight discussions in this book on how to survive the death of a child. Code: CNNO Price: $20.95
Remembering With Love - Messages of Hope for the First Year of Grieving and Beyond by Elizabeth Levang, Ph.D. and Sherokee Ilse. Offers compassion, comfort, support and guidance during the lonely and painful times of grief. Over 300 entries, including quotes from people who have coped with their own losses, remind you that you are not alone and that you can and will survive. Code: RWLO Price: $11.95
Grief Is This Normal? By Diane M. Cimador Roscigno. In sharing all that she has learned about love, forgiveness and survival since the death of her son Mark Anthony, Diana shines a beam of light into a world that might otherwise seem to have become forever dark. Marie Levine, Author, First You Die: Learn To Live After The Death of Your Child. Code: GTNO Price: $10.95
When Bad Things Happen to Good People By Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. When Harold’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, and a human being. Code: WBTO Price: $12.95 Footsteps Through Grief By Darcie Sims and Alicia Sims Franklin. A beginning guide book for the journey through grief. It stresses that there are no right or wrong ways to grieve…there is only YOUR WAY through grief. No one can walk for you. Each footstep is uniquely your own. You do not have to be alone as you search for the footholds through grief. The journey is yours and now it begins… Code: FTGO Price: $9.00
Am I Going Crazy? For Bereaved Parents, Family Members, Friends, Therapists and Grief-Related Organizations by Diana M. Cimador Roscigno. This book validates many of the common grief reactions bereaved families experience. Offers information and coping tools and skills for bereaved parents, family, friends and caring others. Code: AIGO Price: $10.95 When Bluebirds Fly–Losing a Child, Living with Hope. By JoAnn Kuzma Deveny. When Billy, a mischievous eighteen-month-old, slid open the door and ran out of the house, the family’s destiny was changed forever. Begins with a riveting account of the Devenys’ journey to their son’s deathbed, including actual testimonials from the first responders. The story unfolds as an in-depth and informative account from both mother’s and father’s perspectives, and also shares the adversities that often come with a tragedy: alcoholism, gambling addictions, panic attacks, bankruptcy, and the loss and rediscovery of faith. Be inspired. Code:WBFO Price: $16.95 www.griefdigestmagazine.com For free articles on grief and loss.
Goodbye My Child A gentle guide for parents whose child has died by Sara Wheeler and Margaret Pike. A complete guide for newly bereaved parents. Talks about funeral planning, differences in losses, the five phases of mourning, men and women grief, grandparents, your other children, family and friends and picking up the pieces. Code: GMCC Price: $7.95
CARD: Outside: Our thoughts are with you at this time Inside: Your precious child will live forever in your heart Code: 4ILC Price: $2.50
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Death of a Child Love and Remembrance A Journal for Bereaved Parents by Margot Burkle. Margot, a bereaved parent, created this healing journal. A meaningful journal/family keepsake that includes thoughts from mom and dad, siblings, and grandparents, pages for special memories, footprints, handprints and memories and reflections. A family treasure. Code: LARC Price: $7.95 The Other Side of Grief. By Darcie Sims and Alicia Sims Franklin. For those who have been on the path of grief for some time. Will we ever be happy again? How long does grief last and what is on the OTHER SIDE? Does healing mean forgetting and what is recovery all about? This is a healing book that helps explore the changes you experience as you grow through grief. Code: OSGO Price: $9.00 Roses In December-Comfort for the Grieving Heart. Marilyn Heavilin reaches our to help those who are grieving find God’s comfort. Having lost three sons, Marilyn knows the tremendous sorrows, struggles, and questions that come with the death of a loved one. Roses in December will help you understand the grieving process, support family members, give insight into sibling grief, and maintain your marriage. Code: COFO Price: $12.95 Life After the Death of my Son Dennis Apple discovered the lifeless body of his son on their family room couch. Eighteen-year-old Denny had died without warning from what was later explained as complications due to Mono. Sixteen years later, Dennis still struggles with living in a world without his son. Using excerpts from his journal—which he began the day after Denny died— Dennis explores the dark, lonely road of grieving for a child. Code: LIDO Price: $14.99
Wonderful New Titles!!! After the Murder of my Son By Mary Rondeau Westra. In the summer of 2001, Peter Westra was 24 years old. He had flown home to Minnesota for his grandmother’s 90th birthday party, then hopped on a plane to Atlantic City to meet up with his Middlebury College buddies for a friend’s bachelor party. Just 15 hours later, he was dead. Kicked to death on a sidewalk by bouncers outside a nightclub. This is his mother’s story of the day her life was shattered and the intimate retelling of how she put the shards back together again, to save herself and her family. Code: AMSO Price: $14.95 Letters for Healing– the therapeutic power of writing to a lost loved one, compiled by Von Kopfman. Includes very brief introductions to narrative, exposure, writing, and music therapy. The body of the book includes 48 letters to lost loved ones, as well as a photo and short biography of those lost. There is also a place to write your own letter to a lost loved one in the back. The songs for healing CD is included which is fifteen songs written based upon letters from the book. Code: LFHO Price: $19.95 The Gifts of Grief: Finding Light in the Darkness of Loss explores the grieving process and examines new ways to heal from the inside out. After suffering the devastating loss of her eleven-year-old son, she ultimately came to the realization that it is possible to not only heal from grief, but to find gifts from the deepest places of despair. Couched in Tappouni’s warm and comforting prose, and steeped in examples from her own experiences with deep loss, Therèse is able to walk the reader through the grieving process, while keeping in mind that the journey will be different for every person. Code: TGOO Price: $16.95
A Mother’s Tears By Claire Ann Stevenson. This unique and beautiful collection of poems, written from the depths of a mother’s broken heart, will touch and comfort others suffering the most devastating loss of all, the death of a child. A year and a half after the tragic loss of her son, poetry started flowing through her. Code: MOTO Price: $14.95 For Bereaved Grandparents By Margaret Gerner. Written by a bereaved grandparent, this gentle resource addresses the issues grandparents are faced with when experiencing this double grief. Includes information about grief, helping your grieving child, what you can do, grandfathers, holidays and deeper relationships. Code: FBGC Price: $5.95
Her Light Still Shines–A Beloved Daughter’s Story and Her Mother’s Grief Journey by Coralease Cox Ruff, PhD, RN. This written memorial serves as a model for other bereaved parents and as a compass that identifies landmarks and coping strategies along a mother’s grief journey. Learn to keep your child’s memory alive on your journey toward healing and feel the warmth of your child’s shining light forever. Code: HLSO Price: $19.95 Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan. A daughter’s shocking secret life...and shattering death. A mother’s blood vow to find her killer...at any cost. The true story of a mother’s serch for her daughter’s murderer. Lois was the keynote speaker at The Compassionate Friends National Conference in 2012. This is an amazing book for bereaved parents, family and friends, who have had a child or loved one that was murdered. Code: WKMO Price: $7.99
Grief Quest-A Workbook & Journal to Heal the Grieving Parents Heart will help you memorialize your child. The simple act of recording your memories is a tribute to your child and the love and life you shared. Lilly Julien and I. J. Weinstock created Grief Quest out of their experience with love, loss and grief. The Questions utilizes a unique 4-question L.O.V.E. process— • L—Love your memories • O—Open to your grief • V—Value the gifts • E—Embrace your life Code: GQOO Price: $19.95 For Better or Worse For strengthening marriages after a child dies. Looks at gender grief, building your relationship after your child dies, how to help each other heal; includes a grief chat. While it’s important to respect your spouse’s needs, it’s also wise to respect your own. You must take care of yourself both physically and emotionally. . . Code: FBOC Price: $4.00 Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child by Paul C. Rosenblatt. Contains practical information about the problems that grieving parents face. Offers suggestions at the same time talks about honoring the emotions of each other during the grieving process. Chapters also include support groups and counseling. Code: HYMO Price: $26.95
Hello From Heaven After-Death Communication- confirms that life and love are eternal by Bill and Judy Guggenheim. Uplifting messages from those who continue to exist in a life beyond physical death. Offers 353 ADC accounts. Code: HFHO Price: $7.99
I will Miss You Forever–A Mother’s Journal by Linda Triplett. This tender journal is a must read for anyone who is grieving and for anyone with a heart to help others in thier grief walk. Captivating and heart wrenching at times, this book also brings the reader to a greater understanding of the love of a mother toward her son. Code: IWMO Price: $11.95 The Lessons of Love–Rediscovering our passion for life when it all seems too hard to take. Author of,Codependent No More, chronicles her grief over the death of her son Shane, in a skiing accident. For two years she found herself unable to work. But with the help of family, friends and her own inner resources, she was finally able to put her life back together. Code: LOLO Price: $13.99 Help! I’m Raising My Grandkids–Grandparents Adapting to Life’s Surprises by Harriet Hodgson, BS, MA. This engaging resource blends Harriet Hodgson’s unbelievale story of multiple losses with research findings and caregiving tips. Though the book came from the heartbreak of her daughter’s death is is filled with hope. At the end, you’ll cheer for all the loving grandparents--including you--who are putting children first. Code: HRGO Price: $13.95 We are Different Now–A grandparent’s journey through grief by Jackie Taylor Zortman. Pete lit and dropped a firework of some magnitude and instinctively jumped backwards, where he died instantly from a skull fracture at age 21...and thus began the true story of his maternal grandmother’s journey with death on the mountain. Come and walk along to learn what has been revealed since we lost this young man with the angelic face who was born possessing an old soul. Code: WDNO Price: $12.95
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Infant Loss Resources Infant Loss Resources
Empty Arms Coping With Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death. Sherokee Ilse covers all the feelings, fears and fantasies that arise, and adds a lot of easy to read and helpful information on physical reactions. There are practical suggestions and support for parents during this time. Code: EMAO Price: $12.95 Spanish Edition: Brazos Vacíos Code: EMSO Price: $12.95
Section Three: Infant Loss Resources
Miscarriage and Newborn Death Page 15-18 Memory Books Page 16 Healing A Father’s Grief Page 16 DVDs and Music Page 16 Sibling Grief Page 17 For Grandparents Page 17 Teen Miscarriage, Adopton Page 17 Infertility Page 17 Funeral Planning Page 18 Caregivers Page 18 Unborn Baby Has Problems Page 18 Small Handouts Page 18 T-Shirt and Comfee Doll Page 18 Burial Gown Page 18
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Stillbirth From Bereavement Services, RTS. Includes feelings, your partner, friends and family, other children, and the funeral. Supportive information that is valuable right away. The distance between joy and sorrow can be measured by a heartbeat. Code: STBO Price: $2.10
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Miscarriage For parents experiencing fetal loss. When you have a miscarriage you have a very real and powerful grief. It may be one of your first encounters with death. It is certainly something you never forget. This book deals with feelings, anger, guilt, questions, withdrawal, reaching out, dads, couples, relationships, statements that hurt and memorializing the baby. Code: MISC Price: $3.50 Spanish Version: Aborto Espontáneo Code: MALC Price: $3.50 Healing Together For Couples Whose Baby Died by Marcie Lister and Sandra Lovell. This compact book covers ideas from the memorial service to talking together, information on how men and women grieve differently, and how to strengthen your relationship after the loss of your baby. Code: HETC Price: $4.00
Another Baby? Maybe. . . Thirty Questions on Pregnancy After Loss. Written with Maribeth Doerr, Founder of Pen-Parents. Addresses frequently asked questions about subsequent pregnancies such as, How long do I need to wait to try again? What if I can’t get pregnant again? and When the baby is born will I finally be happy? Code: ANBO Price: $5.00 Couple Communication After A Baby Dies Provides a unique approach to this difficult issue. Sherokee Ilse and Tim Nelson teamed up to offer not only their individual perspectives as a man and woman following the deaths of their children, but also to share how they and their spouses met the challenges many couples face during that stressful time. Code: CCBO Price: $12.95 Single Parent Grief by Sherokee Ilse Addresses the issue of facing the loss as a single parent, feeling lonely, guilt and shame, envy and jealousy, pressure from others, relationship issues, other issues that may be affecting you, dealing with your grief, building support, coping skills, and dating again. Code: SPGO Price: $3.00
When Hello Means Goodbye A Guide For Parents Whose Child Dies Before Birth, At Birth Or Shortly After Birth by Perinatal Loss/GriefWatch. Includes Feelings, Physical Symptoms, Naming Your Baby, Autopsies, Funeral Homes, Friends, and comforting poems. Code: WHMO Price: $5.95
Unsupported Losses Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, and Blighted Ovum by Sherokee Ilse. Includes general medical considerations, treatments, future considerations, emotional reactions, creating and cherishing mementos, your other children, building support and finding meaning and peace. Code: UNLO Price: $3.00
Spanish Version: Cuando Hola Significa Adios Code: CHSO Price: $5.95 Too Soon A Memory A guide for parents suffering a miscarriage. A complete guide that covers grieving a miscarriage, causes, helpful things to do or remember while grieving, how fathers react, friends and families, when to try again, and the next pregnancy. Real quotes throughout. Code: TSMO Price: $5.95
Ectopic Pregnancy From Bereavment Services. Three pages of feelings and information specific to this type of loss, including what is an ectopic pregnancy, diagnosis and treatment, and facing the future. Clear and simple to read. Code: ECPO Price: $1.35 Spanish Edition: El Embarazo Ectópico Code: EMEO Price: $1.35
Spanish Version: Una Memoria Demasiado Temprana Code: TSSO Price: $5.95 Comfort Us, Lord – Our Baby Died A book of prayers for families who have lost a small infant to stillbirth or early infant death. By Norman Hagley, D.Min. Includes: A Mother’s Prayer, A Prayer for Hope, A Father’s Prayer, A Prayer for a Very Young Child, also Prayers for Caregivers and Inner Strength. Code: CULC Price: $3.50 Miscarriage A Shattered Dream by Sherokee Ilse. Those who have suffered a miscarriage will find medical and emotional support on possible causes, medical terminology, choices, decisions, common questions and concerns, grandparents, siblings, friends and family, plus coping ideas and taking care of yourself. Code: MISO Price: $12.95 Empty Cradle, Broken Heart Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah Davis, Ph.D. Offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after such tragedy. Encourages grieving and makes suggestions for coping. Includes information about multiple birth, fathers, relatives, friends and other support persons. You are not alone. Code: ECBO Price: $19.95
MotherCare Physical care and beyond after a baby dies by Sherokee Ilse, Inez Anderson and Mary Funk. Empowers bereaved mothers to take good care of themselves after their baby’s death. The physical, emotional and spiritual components of healing are addressed in this short guide. Code: MOCO Price: $4.50 When A Baby Dies A Handbook for He aling and Helping. From Bereavment Services. This complete handbook includes information about grief, grieving normally, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, newborn death, loss in a multiple pregnancy, saying goodbye, reactions of others, involving children, grandparent grief, and checklists for assisting parents. Code: WBDO Price: $16.10 This Little While For Parents Experiencing the Death of a Stillborn Baby or very Young Infant by Joy and Marv Johnson. Full of information beginning with hearing the bad news, recognizing the reality, things to do before you leave the hospital, naming your baby, grieving the loss, healing together. Ends with sample birth/death announcements, support organizations. Code: TLWC Price: $4.50 Available in Spanish: Ese Momentito Code: TLSC Price: $4.50
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Infant Loss Resources Grief Memory Books What it is and what you can do by Joy and Marv Johnson. Covers feelings, issues, other people, rituals and caring for yourself. It may seem as if you’ll Little Footprints never be happy again. You may go to a bereavement support group and hear A Special Baby’s Memory Book. people laugh.You may wonder how anyone can laugh when you’re hurting By Dorothy Ferguson. For parents of stillborn infants or those who die so badly, but somewhere, way back in your head, there’s a little voice calling shortly after birth. Features a journal for feelings, memorable dates, your name. It’s saying, ‘You’ll laugh again sometime, too.’ pictures, place for momentos, last moments, and your story: the day you were born. 24 pages that includes gentle poems. Code: GRIC Price: $4.00 Code: LIFC Price: $8.00 Spanish Version: Aflicción - qué es y qué puedes hacer Available in Spanish: Sus Pequeñas Huellas Code: GRSC Price: $4.00 Code: LISC Price: $8.00 Life Touches Life A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth and Healing by Lorraine Ash. Drawing on great thinkers, personal loves, and the wisdom in everyday events, Ash explains how she made it through this difficult emotional terrain after her daughter’s stillbirth and how her experiences led her to richer ways of loving the world. Code: LTCO Price: $15.00
Special Babies Live in the hearts of those who love them. Lovingly done by AMEND. Includes journal pages, funeral information, birth/ death certificate, and pictures. 12 pages. Code: SPBO Price: $6.00 Available in Spanish: Los Bebés Especials Code: SPSO Price: $6.00
An Empty Cradle, A Full Heart Reflections for mothers and fathers after miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death by Christine O’Keeffe Lafser. Includes pages of comforting reflection for mothers and fathers and inspiring passages from the Bible. Christian tradition. Code: ECFO Price: $10.95
Memories Of Our Baby By A Place To Remember. A soft cloud cover with places for you to write keepsake memories about the mother, father, pregnancy months, how the name was chosen, service information and pictures. Code: MOBO Price: $7.50
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Silent Grief Miscarriage, Child Loss, Finding Your Way Through the Darkness. Clara Hinton writes of her own grief and interviews women and men. The moving, honest responses to these interviews tells the reader that through the tears and rage and awful silence, God still loves us and knows our children. Code: SILO Price: $10.99 When Pregnancy Follows A Loss: Preparing for the Birth of Your New Baby. Authors Joann O’Leary, PhD, and Clare Thorwick, RN. Few people understand the conflicting emotions that surface during a subsequent pregnancy nor that these feelings are normal, given your life experience. Embracing the life of a new baby can be daunting when others may not understand you are still a parent of a baby who died. This booklet is a compilation of families’ experiences. Code: WPFO Price: $8.00 When A Baby Dies by TCF. Written to help give parents insights into the grieving process by those who have personally experienced the death of an infant. Covers the grief response, facing the world again, family members, and another pregnancy. Code: WBSO Price: $4.00 SIDS & Infant Death Survival Guide By Joni Horchler and Robin Morris. There are over 290 pages in this complete book on SIDS and infant death. Includes help for planning a funeral and general grief information. Code: SSGO Price: $16.95
Still To Be Born From Perinatal Loss/GriefWatch. A Guide for Bereaved Parents Who Are Making Decisions About Their Future. Chapters include: After a Loss, Making Decisions About the Future, Medical Considerations, Living Through Another Pregnancy, and Beyond Birth. Things to think about: 1. Don’t assume your doctor knows how you are feeling. When asked, share how you are doing emotionally as well as physically. He or she won’t know what’s going on inside you unless you communicate. Code: SBBO Price: $6.00
Miscarriage: A Man’s Book By Rick Wheat. A note from Rick: Both of you face a lot of confusion and pain. You need to prepare for it. Your wife has some tough days ahead of her that you may not understand. As her husband, you’ll share her struggles. However, sharing her pain won’t be easy. You have your own pain to bear as you grieve the loss of this baby. Rick talks to men about difficult things, anger and grief. Code: MMBC Price: $3.50 Strong and Tender A Guide for the Father whose Baby has Died from Perinatal Loss/GriefWatch. Designed to provide men with some emotional and spiritual support for the family while giving information about men and grief. Includes: taking care of yourself, how men grieve, going back to work, anger, and your next pregnancy. Code: STRO Price: $5.95 Fathers Grieve, Too After their child or baby dies. Gives permission to feel and cry. Code: FGTC Price: 75¢ Spanish Version: Code: FGSC Price: 75¢
DVDs and Music Footprints On Our Hearts The agony we feel after the loss of a baby is complex and intense as it mixes with misplaced guilt, hurt, helplessness, and deep sorrow. This DVD ffers ways to cope with these feelings in the days and weeks of grieving that follow, as it speaks words of understanding, encouragement, and hope for the future for anyone experiencing the grief from the loss of a baby -a stillborn, miscarriage or newborn death experience. Code: FOHO Price: $49.95 Other Ritual-Parents’ Stories of Meaning and Making. A film by Todd Hochberg. Stirring stories of love and loss told by bereaved parents, who reveal the rituals they innovated in honor of their children. Running time: 45:35. Code: ORDO Price: $40.00
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth–100 Practical ideas for Parents and Families–Compassionate advice and simple activities to help you through your grief by Alan Wolfelt and Raelynn Maloney. The stillbirth of a hoped for child is an inexplicable loss of hopes and dreams of a new life. The impact of this overwhelming loss is profound and life changing. This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas teach about the principles of grief and mourning. Code:HYSO Price: $11.95
In Abba’s Arms This CD consists of 12 carefully crafted original instrumentals by songwriter Tony Falzano. The music features flutes, strings, vibraphone, brass and a variety of bells, all woven together to create ear friendly melodies and soul comforting harmonies. It is perfect for all forms of contemplation and healing. Code: IAAO Price: $14.95
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Infant Loss Resources Sibling Grief Remembering Our Baby A workbook for children whose brother or sister dies before birth by Patti Keough. Includes pages for writing and drawing to help share thoughts and feelings. Begins with finding out about the new baby in the family, finding out about the death, questions, and things to do to remember the baby. Ages 4-9. Code: ROBC Price: $4.95 Where’s Jess? Written after Ray and Jody Goldstein’s daughter, Jess, died at age nine months. Simple and easy for children to understand. For siblings who had baby at home. Sometimes when I talk about Jess, Mommy cries. I’m scared that my talking makes her cry. Mommy smiles. She says I don’t need to be afraid of her tears. I can talk about Jess all I want to. Ages 3-6. Code: WHJC Price: $4.95
Am I Still A Sister? This book was written when Allie Sims was 11 and reflects the childwise discoveries she made after her baby brother died. I learned that death is all right for some, but terrible for others. Some think death is a release from life. Others aren’t ready to leave. Code: AISO Price: $5.00 Something Happened By Cathy Blanford. This book is designed especially for children between the ages of two and six whose families have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death. The simple, clear story helps the child to understand what has happened, to deal with all of the feelings that are arising, and to continue to feel loved and secure. Code: SOHO Price: $12.95 Available in Spanish: Code: ALGO Price: $12.95 Bereaved Grandparents
For Grandparents For Bereaved Grandparents By Margaret Gerner. Written by a bereaved grandparent, this gentle resource addresses the issues grandparents are faced when experiencing this double grief. Margaret is a bereaved parent and a bereaved grandparent. Her son, Arthur, was six years old when he was killed by an automobile. Her three-year-old granddaughter, Emily, died of an unknown liver ailment. Code: FBGC Price: $5.95
We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead by Pat Schwiebert and illustrated by Taylor Bills. Expresses the excitement and anticipation children have while waiting for their new sibling to arrive, and the sudden, life-changing nature of an unexpected loss. Narrated by a young boy who shares his and his family’s disappointment and grief over the loss of their baby. Code: WWGO Price: $8.95 No New Baby By Marilyn Gryte. Grandma took hold of my hand. She leaned over and picked something up off the ground. ‘See this little bud?’ she asked. ‘It was supposed to keep growing and turn into a flower. But it didn’t, and no one knows why. Most little buds become flowers, but some don’t. This one died. It will never be a flower now.’ I held the little bud in my hand. ‘Just like our baby,’ I said. Grandma explains you’re not to blame and we don’t always have answers. Code: NNBC Price: $4.95 Spanish Edition: No Tenremos Un Nuevo Bebé Code: NNSC Price: $4.95 My Always Sister Coloring Book For very young children. Callie the bunny talks about finding out her new baby sister was sick, so sick that she had to stay in the hospital. One day her Daddy told her that her new sister had died. There was a funeral with music. Callie had many emotions. He drew a picture of how he felt. Code: MASO Price: $4.95 Talking With Children About Perinatal Loss From Bereavement Services, RTS. This brochure was written to help you explain miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or newborn death to your living children. Includes talking about the baby, remembering baby, explaining death to children and age appropriate grief responses. Code: TWCO Price: $2.10 Sibling Grief After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death by Sherokee Ilse, Linda Hammer Burns and Susan Erling Martinez. A practical guide, this booklet helps parents understand their surviving children’s needs while assisting the siblings to grieve and cope well after their brother’s or sister’s death. Code: SIGO Price: $4.00 Someone Came Before You Author of We Were Gonna Have A Baby, But We Had and Angel Instead. A storybook for children that have come after the loss of a sibling. Recommended age level is 2 years old and up. Code: SCBO Price: $8.95 Thumpy’s Story A Story of Love and Grief Shared by Thumpy the Bunny. Thumpy shares the hurt and questions when his sister dies. This story provides an opportunity for children and adults to express their emotions and learn about life, death, grief and love. Mother looked very sad as Father explained that Bun died because something was wrong with the way she was made. Bun was not strong enough for life in the world. Code: THUO Price: $9.00 Available in Spanish: El Cuento De Thumpy Code: THSO Price: $9.00
A Grandparent’s Sorrow From Perinatal Loss/GriefWatch. An excellent resource for bereaved grandparents including information about how to help your child, what not to say and what to say instead, gifts to give, taking care of yourself, multiple loss, friends, faith and talking with your grandchildren, and touching poetry throughout. Code: GPSO Price: $5.95 Grieving Grandparents After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death by Sherokee Ilse and Lori Leininger. A practical exploration of the anguish, sorrow and sense of helplessness that grandparents feel when their beloved grandchild dies. Information is shared to aid grandparents as they attempt to comfort and support their children. Code: GRGO Price: $4.00 The Grief of Grandparents Seven pages that include quotes from grandparents, the Four Phases of Grief and the Role of Grandparents. We hurt twice. We hurt for our children because they are our children. Plus, we hurt for the grandchild we lost. Code: GOGO Price: $2.60
Teen Miscarriage, Adoption, Infertility After the Loss of Your Baby For Teen Mothers by Connie Nykiel. This booklet was written especially for teen mothers to help them learn about grief and the grief process. Includes medical definitions, information for the baby’s father, friends and family, grandparents, taking care of yourself, answers to frequently asked questions; includes a page to write a letter to the baby and a resource page. Code: ALBC Price: $4.00 Given In Love For Mothers who are choosing an adoption plan. By Maureen Connelly. This lovely book is one you want if you work with young mothers choosing an adoption plan. Includes Decisions, Mementos, Naming, Saying Goodbye, A Letter to Baby, and Adoptive Parents. Includes a healing service for giving a child in love. Code: GILC Price: $4.00 Coffee and Clomid–The art of leading a normal life, while undergoing infertility treatment by Melanie Dillon. This wonderful little booklet addresses infertility, what to expect, Baby Envy, Letting People know, focusing on the positive and finding meaning. The pages include The Infertility Game. A humorous and loving book for any couples faced with difficulty getting pregnant. Code: COCC Price: $3.50
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Infant Loss Resources Funeral Planning Making Loving Memories A Gentle Guide To What you Can Do When Your Baby Dies by M.L. Eddy and Linda Raydo. Includes: First things to do, deciding on a service, visitation, burial, your other children, grandparents, and other helpful resources. Code: MLMC Price: $2.50 Planning A Precious Goodbye By Sherokee Ilse and Susan Erling Martinez. Complete information about announcement options, samples of announcements/obituaries, release forms, laws, making decisions, choosing a funeral home, miscarried babies, service ideas and sample readings. Code: PPGO Price: $4.50 Building Memories Planning A Meaningful Funeral by Doug Manning. There are many decisions to be made when we face the loss of a loved one. Use as a guide to help you take care of all the details. Addresses many questions, such as involving the children. There is a section in the back to write down notes and questions. Code: BMMO Price: $4.00
Beyond Prenatal Choice. This pamphlet has been written for individuals who find out, through prenatal diagnosis, that their fetus has an abnormality, and choose to terminate the pregnancy. Provides some guidance and support for the days and weeks ahead. Code: BPCC Price: $2.50 A Time to Decide, A Time to Heal For parents making difficult decisions about babies they love by Pineapple Press. 4th Edition. Information on factors in the decision making process, continuing the pregnancy, interrupting the pregnancy, taking control, the hospital experience, couples healing togetherhealing apart, the days and weeks afterward, and the months and years that follow. Code: ATTO Price: $9.95 Spanish Edition: Code: TDSO Price: $7.95
Vignette – a small writing and a powerful handout. Fathers Grieve, Too After their child or baby dies. Gives permission to feel and cry. Code: FGTC Price: 75¢
BitterSweet Hello...Goodbye: A Resource in Planning Farewell Rituals When A Baby Dies by the National Share Office. Third Edition. There are sections for planning religious as well as secular services that can be used by hospitals, groups, congrega-tions or individuals. Prayers, scripture, readings and other resources are included to assist in meeting individual circumstances. Even includes stories and examples from bereaved parents. The most complete guide for use when planning a memorial or funeral for a baby. Code: BSHO Price: $39.95
Caregivers A Caregiver’s Handbook to Perinatal Loss by Gary Vogel. This complete handbook covers the loss, stages of grief, female vs. male grief, support systems, grandparents, family and friends, children, leaving the hospital and future pregnancy. It also covers physicians, nurses, post partum, nurse managers, funeral directors, social workers and caregiver renewal. Code: CHPO Price: $5.95
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Being With Parents After Their Child Or Baby Dies. Practical, caring tips for friends, family and caregivers. Code: BWPC Price: 75¢ Death of an Infant Twin For families after the death in a multiple birth. Gives emotional support. Code: DITC Price: 75¢ Your Next Baby Addresses fears and anxiety for the next baby. Code: YNBC Price: 75¢
Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss by Jane Heustis & Marcia Meyer Jenkins Foreword by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Written by seasoned support nurses, outlines a framework for bereavement care in the obstetrical arena. Describes loss from the family’s perspective, defines the caregiver’s role, offers bedside strategies and reviews the work of mourning in the weeks and months after. Code: CTPO Price: $19.95
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Difficult Decisions For families whose unborn baby has a serious problem. These decisions take great strength. With gentle support we deal with loss, hopelessness, relating to others and community resources. This book offers support if you decide to continue your pregnancy or if you decide to terminate. Always remember – whatever decision you make is made from love. Code: DIDC Price: $3.99
Comfee Doll Pillow A warm, huggable friend to hold for comfort. Heat this flannel covered friend in the microwave for three minutes .Contains calming lavender & flax. Code: COMO Price: $15.00
Precious Lives – Painful Choices By Sherokee Ilse. As modern technology opens the window to the womb, more parents are in the position of having to make a decision to continue or end a pregnancy. Encourages parents to take a hard look at the medical, emotional, spiritual, and moral perspectives before they make their own painful choice about their baby’s precious life. Code: PLPO Price: $12.95 Unspeakable Losses Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss by Kim Kluger-Bell. Filled with stories of those who have experienced losses, has solid, practical advice. Includes mourning rituals and services. Excellent for those who have experienced any type of pregnancy loss and those who care about them. Code: USLO Price: $14.00
Burial Gowns are lovingly done by Raindrops of Ponca City, OK. Gown and blanket sets are individually handmade from a wrinkle-resistant poly/cotton fabric in soft pastel colors. Blankets are double-layered with a baby footprint design on one side and matching solid pastel on the other side. Gowns are designed to open completely down the front with snap closures so delicate babies can be dressed with minimal handling. LARGE (32-34 Weeks) Code: BGLO MEDIUM (27-32 Weeks) Code: BGMO SMALL (23-26 Weeks) Code: BGSO X-SMALL (16-22 Weeks) Code: BGTO All gowns with blanket are $15.00 each
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Baby Talk & Special Beginnings The first section describes invitation signs, time-out signals, and other ways you can help your baby grow and develop. Invaluable to NICU parents. The second section informs parents of their baby’s needs – how preemies need to feel love and warmth from mom and dad’s touch and presence. Addresses Parents’ emotional needs. Code: BATC Price: $5.95 My NICU Baby Book This special baby book is meant to provide a valuable memory of your time spent in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, to remember people who cared for your baby and for you, and to let you keep track of how your special care infant grows and develops. Includes growth charts, treatments, tests, feedings and good information for parents. Code: MNIC Price: $9.95 Loving and Letting Go For parents who decided to turn away from aggressive medical intervention for their critically ill newborns by Deborah Davis, Ph.D. There are so many questions to ask: Questions about diagnoses, treatment, logistics, outcomes and prognoses. This book confirms the love, wisdom, courage and faith that lie in the heart of letting go, and offers support for finding peace. Code: LLGC Price: $6.95 Why Mine? For parents whose child is seriously ill. This simple and supportive booklet covers other children, your marriage, anger, hope, depression, single parents, and community people. When your child is ill you come to know a lot about fear. Fear of the unknown. What will happen? Fear of treatment. What will they do? Code: WHMC Price: $3.25 Peace & Remembrance A guide for parents whose baby dies in a newborn intensive care unit by Maureen Shea, ACSW. A lovingly written book that begins with the decisions to be made at the hospital, contacting the funeral home, telling your other children, family and friends, grieving, the loss of more than one baby, and concerns. Code: PARO Price: $4.25
For Siblings Katie’s Premature Brother: El Hermano Prematuro de Katie English and Spanish Edition by Elizabeth Hawkins-Walsh and illustrated by Anne Catherine Blake. A book for siblings of NICU babies. Shares fears, worries of young children. Come with Katie and visit her new brother. She couldn’t wait until that special day when he would come home. She already liked Christopher, and she just knew he was going to like her, too. Code: KPBC Price: $6.95 No Bigger Than My Teddy Bear By Valerie Pankow. For sisters and brothers of a healthy preemie. You’ll enjoy giving this to your children or your very young visitors. The first time I got to go into the nursery, I was scared. There were so many machines, lights, wires and tubes. I smiled because he was my new brother. Code: NBTO Price: $6.95 Our New Baby Needs Special Help A coloring book for families whose new baby has problems by Gail Klayman. For small siblings whose new baby may or may not come home. Starts when child is excited about having the new baby, parents finding out there is a serious problem, and visiting the NICU. Perfect for child-life specialists! “Jane patted my shoulder. “We don’t know why some babies are born with problems. We do know it’s not because of anything we thought or felt.” Code: ONBC Price: $3.95 New Baby A special book for big brothers and sisters. Perfect for sibling classes! This coloring book shares feelings and lots of self-worth. Shows how to hold baby, how much baby sleeps, and that the big sibling is loved. Mommy and Daddy will help you hold your New Baby. They will show you just how to be careful. Baby will seem so tiny. You will feel really big. Code: NEBC Price: $2.00
Section Four: Children’s Grief Resources Creative & Healing Tools Page19-21 For Parents and Professionals Page 22 School Resources Page 22 Sibling Grief Page 23 Death of a Grandparent Page 23 National Disaster Page 23 Illness: For Children and Family Page 24 Pet Loss Page 24 Death of a Parent Page 25 Divorce Page 25 Teen/Adolescent Grief Page 26 Suicide and Homicide Page 27 My Memory Bag This sturdy tote contains: 4A Teddy Bear 4A star-shaped stress ball 4A yo-yo 4Book: A Bunch of Balloons The child could be encouraged to add their own special things to complete this memory bag. Ideas: clothing, pictures, photos, cards and other keepsakes. Code: MYMC Price: $24.00 My Friends Dolls If you work with children who are grieving or in situations where strong feelings need expression, you want at least one of these to be your friend. There are four velcro-fastened expressions: Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared and Confused. Caucasian, Hispanic, Afro-American and Asian. Specify. Code: MFDC Price: $95.00 Feeling Hearts Stones Pass them around a support group, or share them with a child and ask them to talk about their “feeling heart”. This soft bag contains small ceramic hearts to provide an opportunity to express emotion. Code: FEHO Price: $22.50 Healing Activities for Children in Grief Activities suitable for support groups with grieving children, preteens and teens by Gay McWhorter. A much needed resource for support groups. Written by a grief counselor, these activities provide the tools to allow children to express their feelings and remember their loved one. Activities include description of activity, purpose, recommended readings and supplies needed. Includes Starburst card game. Code: HACO Price: $24.95 25 Things To Do - Activities to Help Children Suffering Loss or Change by Laurie A. Kanyer, MA. Gives healing activities to do with your child, such as painted rock memorial, play acting, ball play, feeling faces and more. Code: TTDO Price: $13.95 Doggone Grief Game Players pick dog tokens and roll the dice to move around the game board. When the token lands on an “emotion” space - mad, sad, happy, scared or wild - the player picks a dog card. The emotion cards show dogs in various activities that reveal their grief emotions, too. The card also includes a question or two for players to answer about themselves or their loved one who died. Code: DGGO Price: $35.00 Memory Garden Bereavement Card Game Created by Lisa Arneson. A wonderful tool for caregivers helping grieving children express their thoughts and feelings. 65 cards in a deck, each illustrating the natural cycle of life with a beautiful flower garden. Discussion questions include: My favorite story about the person who died is. . . or The most difficult time is. . . Code: MEGO Price: $24.95
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Children’s Grief Resources Help Me Say Goodbye By Janis Silverman Activities for Helping Kids Cope When A Special Person Dies. An art therapy book for children coping with the death of someone they love. Sensitive exercises address the questions and fears kids may have. Code: HMSO Price: $9.95
Lifetimes The beautiful way to explain death to children by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen. Outstanding illustrations provide a visual and safe way to begin explaining death to children. Can be used for very young children to explain the life cycles of all living things. Code: LIFO Price: $14.00
One Who Soars Bands are a wonderful expression of grief. The white indicates the journey from the loss into more peaceful remembrance. Code: OWSO Price: $2.00
A Bunch of Balloons A story for ages 5-9. Compares loss of a loved one with the letting go of a helium balloon. It’s especially good because it looks at not just what’s been lost, but what still is left. Code: BUBC Price: $5.99
In Mourning Bands Many families purchase these to give out at funeral services to family and friends, while others wear theirs privately as a way to tell others of their sorrow. The black indicates sorrow and grief often deeply felt by the bereaved. Code: INMO Price: $2.00
Sunflower Promise By Kathleen Maresh Hemery, Illustrated by Augusto Bordelois. A new chapter book for children ages 8-12 who are experiencing the death of someone close to them. The morning sun and chirping birds fooled me into thinking it was another normal Saturday morning. But then that sick feeling came back, and I knew Davy would not go bike riding with me that day. Code: SFPC Price: $4.99
My Grief Rights Wallet Cards. The new wallet cards (packet of 50) are great for kids to carry with them and share with others. Code: MGWO Price: $15.00
Talking about Death is a classic guide for parents helping their children through the death of a loved one. With a helpful list of dos and don’ts, an illustrated read-along dialogue, and a guide to explaining death, Earl Grollman provides sensitive and timely advice for families coping with loss. Talks about reactions to different kinds of death, from the death of a parent to the death of a pet. Code: TADO Price: $20.00
The Invisible String by Patricia Karst. A very simple approach to overcoming the fear of loneliness or separation with an imaginative flair that children can easily identify with and remember. “People who love each other are always connected by a very special string, made of love. Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love.” Code: ISOO Price: $16.95
When Dinosaurs Die A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie and Marc Brown. This colorful guide helps dispel the mystery associated with death and provides answers to the most often asked questions, such as: Why does someone die? What does dead mean? What comes after death? Code: WDPO Price: $7.99
Waterbugs and Dragonflies A tender tale of death and new life, this mini-book uses the symbol of one waterbug, climbing a stalk to turn into a dragonfly, never to return. Includes a prayer for parents, Scripture and information for what parents can say. Code: WADO Price: $5.00 The Next Place By Warren Hanson. A classic that brings gentle verse revealing a safe and welcome destination free from earthly hurts and filled with wonder and peace. A comforting message of hope and a gift of compassion for the bereaved. Code: NEPO Price: $16.95 How I Feel A coloring book for grieving children by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. A coloring book for very young children that explores the many feelings grieving children experience. Provides grieving children with the words to describe their new and sometimes scary feelings. Code: HIFO Price: $2.00 The Fall of Freddie the Leaf A story of life for all ages by Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D. This is a story about how Freddie and his companion leaves change with the passing seasons, finally falling to the ground with winter’s snow. Both children and adults will be touched by this inspiring story of the cycle of life. Hardcover. Code: FFLO Price: $14.95
I Know I Made It Happen A Gentle Book About Feelings by Lynn Bennett Blackburn. We look at feelings when there’s a family fight, a divorce, illness, injury and death. Gives kids support and understanding during crises. It’s nice to know, though, that my wishes, and my thoughts, and my words, don’t make bad things happen. Code: IKIC Price: $6.95
Tear Soup A Recipe for Healing After Loss. After Grandy suffers a loss she cooks up her own batch of tear soup.Gives you a glimpse into Grandy’s life as she blends different ingredients into her own grief process. Valuable for family members to share. Hardcover. Code: TERO Price: $19.95 Available in Spanish: Sopa de Lagrimas Code: TESO Price: $14.95 Tear Soup DVD Code: TVDO Price: $29.95
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids 100 Practical Ideas for Kids. Simple advice and activities for children after a death. Talking to other grieving kids can feel really good. It helps you know that you’re not the only one. You’ll make friends and get some good ideas for living with your grief. Code: HYKO Price: $11.95 What Does That Mean?: A Dictionary for Grieving Children by Harold Ivan Smith and Joy Johnson. Here are all the words that puzzle children and adults as well. How do you tell a six-year-old about cremation? What is a mausoleum? In this delightfully simple book, two leading bereavement authors give the meaning of the word, use an example or story, and quote a current resource to further explain. Code: WDTC Price: $9.95 Add a Teddy Bear to your book order. Standard 10’ Bear. Code: TEDO Price: $4.99
When A Child You Love Is Grieving Widely recognized grief specialist, Harold Ivan Smith, gives practical steps you can take to insure that a grieving child receives the necessary, healthy outlets needed during the loss of a loved one. If you are the parent, relative, or friend of a grieving child, you can learn to give that child support they need. Code: WCYO Price: $14.99 Grief is Like a Snowflake By Julia Cook (Grades K-8) With the help and support of his family and friends, Little Tree learns to cope with his father’s death by discovering what is really important in life, and that his father’s memory will carry on. Julia, and a lovable cast of trees, offers a warm approach to the difficult subject of death and dying. Code: GLSO Price: 9.95 Saying Goodbye by Jim and Joan Boulden. Buddy the duck talks to children about death and grief. Buddy also explains funerals and things kids can do when they have different feelings. Includes drawing pages and a goodbye letter. A funeral is when family and friends come together and remember the good things about the dead person. Sometimes the dead body is there to see or to touch if anyone wants to. Code: SAGO Price: $3.95 Code: SYGO Price: $3.95 Spanish: Diciendo Adios
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Children’s Grief Resources Expaining Grief and Loss, cont. Tell Me, Papa A gentle explanation for children about death and the funeral by Joy and Marv (Papa) Johnson. Tells children about what happens when you die; explains the funeral and cremation, and answers questions honestly. Useful tool for parents and caregivers searching for the right words to say. Remember though, being dead and being asleep are not alike. When we are asleep, our parts inside work away making us ready for the day. We move. We breathe in and out . . .You can tell the difference between being dead and being asleep. Revised. Code: TMPC Price: $7.95 What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? Trevor Romain talks directly to kids about what death means and how to cope. He asks the kinds of questions kids have about death—Why? How? What next? Is it my fault? What’s a funeral?—in basic, straightforward terms. He describes and discusses the overwhelming emotions involved in grieving—sadness, fear, anger, guilt—and offers practical strategies for dealing with them. Code: WOEO Price: $8.99 The Grief Bubble Helping Kids Explore and Understand Grief…by Kerry DeBay. A special book for children ages 6 and older who have experienced the death of someone special. The interactive format invites them to find expression for their thoughts and feelings, encouraging the exploration of their grief. Code: TGBO Price: $11.95 Spanish Edition: Code: TGSO Price: $11.95 Honey Bear Died by Jennifer Melvin. Finally a how-to-tell-3-5 year olds someone has died! Adults often seek the words to tell a young person someone has died, especially those that don’t developmentally grasp the concept of finality. This book provides the necessary & developmentally appropriate basic wording; simple, inviting & interactive illustrations and an opportunity to incorporate the loved ones name. A must have for every grief center and family. Code: HBDO Price: 11.95
Grief and Loss DVD–A Child’s Perspective, Birth through 12 years. After the death of a loved one, grownups are often unsure about how to help young children. Death is a difficult concept for adults to process, and most feel helpless in the presence of a grieving child. For children, there is an added dimension. Their capacity to make sense of the loss is filtered through the lens of their developmental stage. 22 minutes. Code: GLCO Price: $44.95 A Kid’s Journey of Grief –A Coloring and Activity Book for Grieving Kids, ages 5-12. Written by Susan K. Beeney, R.N. and Jo Anne Chung, B.S.R.N. You need a map! Inside this handbook is the map of The Land of Grief. With the help of coloring pages, activities, and a little frog, you will travel through the feelings of grief after the death of a loved one. Over 80 pages. Code: KJGO Price: $20.00 The Theory of Everything. A novel by J.J. Johnson. Last year, Sarah’s best friend Jamie died in a freak accident. Back then, everyone was sad; now they’re just ready for Sarah to get over it and move on. But Sarah’s not ready to move on. She can’t stop reliving what happened, struggling with guilt, questioning the meaning of life, and missing her best friend. Her grades are plummeting, her relationships are falling apart, and her normal voice seems to have been replaced with a snark box. Young Adult. Hardcover. Code: TOEO Price: $16.95 A Journey with Mrs. Beens–A Children’s Storybook of Grief Support by Marsha Ann Dobler. A Journey With Mrs. Beens was created and designed for parents, family members, professional counselors, teachers, medical and care-giving professionals and others involved in the life of any child who has suffered the death of a loved one. The book may be used oneon-one or in a group setting. The story was not created to be read in one session, it is best to read it in shorter sessions. Hardcover. Code: JWMO Price: $20.00
Kids Learn About Death and Celebrating Life / Los niños aprenden sobre la muerte y la celebración de by Billie Humphrey. Many important lessons are learned through the Spanish and English text on every page while animal characters tell the story. Friendship, healing rituals, funeral service/ cremation options, and celebrating the life of a beloved grandfather are covered. Beautiful art work and symbolism enable readers to tailor the book to their situation. A unique worksheet follows the story. With rapidly rising cremation rates, this resource is a must for enhancing education today and building strong, healthy adults for tomorrow. Code: KLAO Price: $12.95 In Snowflakes Fall, Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life’s natural cycle: its beauty, its joy, and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise of renewal that can be found in our lives—snowflakes fall, and return again as raindrops so that flowers can grow. MacLachlan and Kellogg, who are longtime friends, were moved to collaborate on a message of hope for children and their families following the tragic events in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Hardcover. Code: SFFO Price: $17.99 Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: “I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be.” Code: LYFO Price: $5.95 Love from a Star by Katherine Cutchin Gazzetta. Sometimes you just need to know that you are loved. That is what this little gift book is all about. With a stowaway frog hidden throughout the pages, Love From a Star brings a message that you are loved and never alone. Wherever you are, whatever you face, God is there. Just look for His star. Hardcover. Code: LFSO Price: $15.00
Free books Babka’s Seranade–Babka tells the most wonderful stories about kingdoms, dragons and princesses. One day, when Pipchin came home, her mother was crying. Babka had died. They began to clean out Babka’s house. And later someone else moved in but Pipchin was still able to visit the magical garden and remember Babka’s incredible stories. Code: BASC Price: FREE Grandfather Hurant Lives Forever. Grigor watches grandfather mend his rug and listens to stories of his old country, Armenia. Grandfather helps Grigor make his own rug. Grandfather and Grigor are rug makers together! Grigor has a lot of feelings after Grandfather dies, but he continues to work on his rug as grandfather taught him. Code: GFHC Price: FREE This Time It’s Me. For teens who have just found out they are pregnant and need to make decisions. Talks about decisions, telling your boyfriend and parents, taking care of yourself, and self-esteem. Has choices your teen will face as well as many of the problems and worries. Code: TTIC Price: FREE Lucy Lettuce: A head of her time. Lettuce serves to demonstrate what grief feels like. Through being tossed and tumbled, she learns that the lid of sorrow will lift and she can go out and nourish others. Children of all ages will learn about grief and loss by Lucy’s example. Complete demonstration guide is included. Good presentation for groups of kids or adults. Code: LULC Price: FREE Plans: Using Story books to help explan death and the grieving process to elementary school age children. Code: PLAC Price: FREE
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Children’s Grief Resources For Caregivers, Parents and Professionals
School Resources
Healing A Child’s Grieving Heart 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends & Caregivers. This book offers 100 practical, kid-friendly ideas for helping children grieve. An easy-to-use resource for parents, aunts, uncles, grandparent, teachers and coaches. Code: HGYO Price: $11.95 Helping Children Cope with Death from the Dougy Center, a national center for grieving children. This guidebook contains information on a child’s understanding of death, developmental issues, how to explain death to children, and six basic principles about children and grief. Code: HECO Price: $9.95 Children Grieve, Too By Joy and Marv Johnson, along with Jackie Bell and Jan Roberts. Gives information to those who work with grieving children. Basic and reader friendly; talks about what you need to know and how children respond, from infants through teen to grief. Explains death and the funeral. References other resources. Code: CGTC Price: $4.50 Supporting Children and Teens Through Grief and Loss A Guide for Parents from the Center for Grieving Children. A guide to helping children. Includes supporting grieving children and teens, signs of grief in children and teens, what you can do, and taking care of yourself. Code: SCPO Price: $8.00 Lean On Me Gently Helping the Grieving Child by Doug Manning. Excellent for parents who want to help their children grieve while grieving themselves. Includes all the information about children and grief, plus resources. Code: LOGO Price: $3.25 Keys to Helping Children Deal With Death and Grief by Joy Johnson. A complete book to help parents explain the idea of death in ways that are understandable to children. One of our best sellers, it includes sections on the process of grief, concepts according to age, death education, the funeral, grief education, big questions, special relationships, a glossary and resources. Code: KEYC Price: $8.95 A Child’s View of Grief By Alan Wolfelt. An informative, easy-to-read book that explains how children and adolescents grieve after someone dies. Answers many questions parents and caregivers may have. Includes children teach adults about grief, the role of caring adults, guidelines for involving children in funerals, adolescent mourning, and final thoughts. Code: ACGO Price: $7.00 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child The Dougy Center. Learn what to expect from grieving children at different ages, how to provide safe outlets for children to express their thoughts and feelings, and how to support them during the memorial service, holidays and anniversary times. Code: TWHO Price: $9.95 Helping Children Grieve & Grow A Guide For Those Who Care by Donna O’Toole. Answers the questions caregivers may have, such as how can I understand the losses of children, how can I understand children’s grief, what can I say and do that will help, are there special concerns, and what helps children bounce back. Code: HGGO Price: $4.95 Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Death By Linda Goldman. The author covers some of the common questions that children ask about death and provides sensitive yet candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as religious beliefs, coming to terms with terminal illness, and fear of forgetting someone when they are gone. Code: GADO Price: $15.95 When Children Grieve–For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving and Other Losses. There are many life experiences that can produce feelings of grief in a child, from the death of a relative or a divorce in the family to more everyday experiences such as moving to a new neighborhood or losing a prized possession. No matter the reason or degree of severity, if a child you love is grieving, the guidelines examined in this thoughtful book can make a difference. Code: WCGO $13.99
Grief Comes to Class An educator’s guide by Majel Gliko-Braden. Parent Council Review: Age Range: Parenting Teachers are often at a loss about how to help youngsters cope with grief. This is an excellent handbook explaining children’s understanding of death and helping them deal with their feelings when grief comes to the classroom. It includes a bibliography and outlines a process for a conference for a grieving student. Code: GCCC Price: $6.95 Supporting Children and Teens Through Grief and Loss: A Guide for Schools from the Center for Grieving Children, Portland, Maine. Information that will help schools when a death in the classroom occurs including, why help children and teens grieve at school, child development and grief, what you can do to support grieiving children and teens, teachable moments, taking care of yourself, and books for schools and families. Code: SGSO Price: $8.00 A Teacher’s Guide to the Grieving Student Guidelines and Suggestions for School Personnel Grades K–12 by Hospice of Lancaster County. Begins with common reactions and behaviors for ages 5-18, loss of a parent, sibling, extended family, classmate, teacher, pet, suicide and sudden death. Includes 42 simple guidelines to help you. Code: TGGO Price: $5.50 Helping the Grieving Student A Guide for Teachers from the Dougy Center, a national center for grieving children. Addresses issues that arise in the classroom after a death impacts a student, a classroom or a school. Includes practical tips and step-by-step information on what to say and do. Code: HGSO Price: $9.95 When Death Impacts Your School A Guide for School Administrators from the Dougy Center, a national center for grieving children. Includes concrete suggestions for dealing directly with death, developing a school intervention plan after a death, deciding when outside help is needed, and addressing special issues around suicide or violence. Code: WDIO Price: $9.95 If Nathan Were Here, author Mary Bahr gently explores the grief of a young boy whose best friend has died. With the help of an understanding teacher, a kind neighbor, and an empathetic parent, the boy finds ways to give expression to his questions and sorrow and to reach out to someone else who needs him. Code: INWO Price: $9.00 Bereavement Counseling in the School Setting by Luciano Sabatini. Although many of our schools do attempt to assist the thousands of children and adolescents yearly who lose parents, siblings and other loved ones, their efforts tend to focus on how to assist the newly bereaved student in the days immediately following the loss. Schools need to have a long term approach that extends far beyond the immediate crisis, seeking to assist students with the life altering changes that follow the death of a family member. Code: BCSO Price: $9.95 Understanding and Addressing Children’s Grief Issues by David A. Opalewski, M.A. A manual for any caring adult dealing with grief in Pre-K to Fifth Grade Students. Gives you comprehensive techniques to address the situation and help caring adults make a difference. Code: UACO Price: $22.95 Understanding and Addressing Adolescent Grief Issues by David A. Opalewski, M.A. A manual for any caring adult dealing with grief in Middle and High School. Code: UAAO Price: $22.95 Confronting Death in the School Family: Guidelines and Tools for adding a Tragedy Component to your Crisis Response Team, Grades K-12, by David A. Opalewski, M.A. Step by step proven guildines and procedures for responding to real life tragic situations, class room plans, worksheets and samples of announcements. Code: CDFO Price: $39.95 Answering the Cry for Help–A Suicide Prevention Manual for Schools and Communities by David A. Oplalewski, M.A. Guidelines for developing a Community Suicide Prevention Program. Code: ACHO Price: $22.95
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Children’s Grief Resources
Death of a Grandparent
Sibling Grief
Since My Brother Died, Desde Que Murio Mi Hermano by Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne. Ages 5-12. Includes both English and Spanish translations of a caregivers section, teachers section, and a story for children. In this book, the child talks about how things are different since his brother died. In the end, the child realizes his brother is still alive in his heart. Code: SMBC Price: $6.95 The Empty Place A child’s guide through grief by Roberta Temes, Ph.D. Ages 5-10. When a sibling dies, there is an empty place in the house, at the table, and in her brother’s heart. Explores different feelings and positive ways to deal with grief. Includes information on beginning your own journal. Code: EMPO Price: $8.95 Baseball Forever!Baseball is a universal sport, and one that Margie found to be a useful metaphor helping young boys process the thoughts/ feelings associated with loss. Using the metaphor of a baseball team, Margie’s book focuses on values and strengths which can be harnessed, allowing movement and transformation. The reader moves from grieving the loss of the physical presence of the loved one, into acceptance, resilience, and commemoration of them. Code: BBFO Price: $9.95 Always My Brother by Jean Reagan Becky and her brother John were best buddies, telling jokes, caring for their dog Toby, and playing soccer. John was always there to cheer her up and help her out—until he died. Becky wishes everything could go back to the way it was. She gradually realizes that she can still enjoy the things that they used to. Code: AMBO Price: $16.95 Lost and Found Remembering A Sister by Ellen Yeoman. In this beautifully written book, a girl’s sister dies of cancer. People around her say that ‘we lost Paige.’ As the family goes through the grief process, Alexandra discovers that she can always find Paige through art, memories, memorials, and Paige’s possessions. Code: LAFC Price: $8.95 Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope by Donna O’Toole. Facing loss and grief isn’t easy, so most of us find it easier to do it indirectly. That is why this story uses animals. Aarvy finds strength and courage after dealing with losses in his life. He and his friends learn about life and love. Code: AAFO Price: $12.95 A Sister’s Diary by Jodi Scheinfeld At the beginning of the summer between third and fourth grade, Jessica’s oldest brother Matt passed away in a terrible accident at camp. Desperately missing her brother, Jessica begins a diary in which she tells all of her deepest secrets, fears and hopes. Through her eyes we watch as the Allman family must come together to do what seems impossible. They must begin to heal. Code:: SDOO Price: $14.95
Natural and National Tragedy
Workbooks and Memory The Ant Hill Disaster by Julia Cook. After the Ant Hill School is destroyed, a little boy ant is afraid to go back to school. His mom caringly explains to him that sometimes things happen in life over which we have no control, but we have to find a way to keep living and growing. To do that, We breathe in and breathe out, and hold onto each other. We shed a lot of tears, and we love one another. We all come together as a strong team of ONE, and then we rebuild, and get things done! The Ant Hill Disaster thoughtfully addresses fears associated with both natural and man-caused disasters. It models effective parenting and teaching responses. This book can help assure children that through love, empathetic understanding, preparation, and effective communication, they can stand strong, even in the midst of uncontrollable events. Code: AHCO Price: $9.95
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Finding Grandpa Everywhere By John Hodge. A wonderful resource for helping children understand death, grief, and remembrance, this is the story of a young boy who has been told that he has “lost” his grandfather. The boy remembers when he himself was lost in the mall and wants to help his grandmother find his grandfather. When he learns that his grandfather is not lost but dead, the boy remembers the old man’s kindness and love. Code: FGEC Price: $7.95 Children Also Grieve - Hardcover Talking About Death and Healing by Linda Goldman. The combination of narrative and interactive memory book in the first part of the book is designed to be read and worked through by children. The story tells of the experiences of Henry, the dog of a family whose grandfather has died. During Henry’s progress through the different stages of bereavement, he learns strategies for coping with his grief. Code: CDGO Price: $22.95 The Garden Angel By Jan Czech. A young girl, grieving over the loss of her grandfather, decides to plant a garden in his memory. She is determined to do it herself, just as her grandfather has taught her. As the final touch, she makes a scarecrow from her grandfather’s clothes and angel wings from his quilt. As the garden is completed, the child allows herself to cry and begins the process of adjusting to her loss. Code: GAAC Price: $7.95 Lilacs for Grandma By Margene Hucek. Megan hid under the lilac bush under Grandmother’s bedroom window. Grandma knew she was there. She heard the grown-ups talking about Grandma being ill. After grandma dies, Megan watches the doves build a new nest and gathers lilacs to bring to the funeral. Code: LFGC Price: $7.95 A Mural For Mamita - Un Mural Para Mamita by Alesia K. Alexander. English and Spanish versions of a story about a young girl whose Mamita gets cancer and later dies. Lux, the granddaughter, remembers all the special things about her grandmother and gets everyone together to create a fantastic mural. Code: MFMC Price: $8.95 Goodbye Gram by Amy Greenburg Helping children with the loss of a loved one is never easy. This heartfelt remembrance of a greatly loved grandmother helps children cope with the loss of someone special by helping them realize that although their special loved one is gone they will always live on in their hearts and the hearts of others. Code: GBGO Price: $9.95 Memories Memories. . .remembering the very important person in your life who has died can be confusing and painful. This memory book could be a support in accepting the loss and provide you with ways to express your thoughts and feelings about it. By Cheryl Hall-Kippen, BS, BSW, LSC Code: MMIO Price: $4.50 Until We Meet Again Treasured memories... come from ordinary moments. Between one winsome grandfather and one lucky little boy are keepsakes of the heart... memories made by the two of them for all time. But their time together is coming to an end. With insight and tenderness, author Susan Jones tells the story of what comes next for a little boy who discovers memory-making is a language of love that can be whispered across the years. Refers to Heaven. Hardcover. Code: UWMO Price: $24.95 Grandpa’s Soup By Eiko Kadono. When Grandma dies, Grandpa is too sad to do anything. All day long, day after day, he sits by himself in his house. Then, one day, Grandpa wakes up and decides to try to make the soup his wife used to make for him. Unexpected visitors, hungry for soup, keep arriving at his door. Soon, Grandpa discovers that sharing with his new friends is the best cure for his loneliness. Code: GDSO Price: $9.00
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Children’s Grief Resources Illness: For Children and Family
Gifts of Life By Jodi Puhalla-Neumann, LSW. This activity book is designed to help younger children cope with the impending death of someone they love by allowing them to draw and color the pictures that tell their own story. Activities address how to identify feelings and ways to cope with them, what grief looks like, and ways a child can show a dying loved one that they are special. Code: GOLO Price: $6.00
In My World A Journal for young people facing a life-threatening illness by Linda Lazar and Bonnie Crawford of StarShine Hospice. Writing about feelings is healing. The pages are to be filled with letters, memories, and reflections about life. Includes pages for daily thoughts and reflections, favorite things and letters to special people. Code: IMWC Price: $6.95
My Always Memories By Cheryl Hall-Kippen, LSW. A memory book created especially for a younger child to remember a loved one in their life who has died. The activities provide an opportunity to express feelings and identify supports when someone they love has died. Suggestions for how adults can help a grieving child are included. Code: MAMO Price: $6.00
Hospital Friends A coloring book to tell you about your hospital stay. We mention just about everything kids will see during their hospital visit. Checking in is called admitting. You will get a bracelet with your name on it. Here you will meet your first hospital friends. Your hospital friends will help you feel better. Code: HOFC Price: $2.00
If I could be sick for you Just One Day by Kathy Cramer is a heartwarming story about the desire to give the gift we cannot give -- to take away pain and illness from those we love. This precious story takes you through a journey from rollercoaster rides to walking in the grass barefoot to smelling flowers and playing in the snow. A gift book. Hardcover. Code: JODO Price: $14.95
Life Isn’t Always A Day At The Beach A book for all children whose lives are affected by cancer. A workbook for the cancer patient or the child whose family member has cancer. Covers all kinds of feelings and openings for creative ideas. Code: LIAO Price: $9.95 When Someone Has A Very Serious Illness by Marge Heegaard. The Drawing Out Series affirms that children can learn to cope with loss and change. Children are given the opportunity to work out their emotions during difficult times while learning to recognize acceptable behavior. Code: WSHO Price: $9.95 Still My Grandma By Veronique Van den Abeele. Camille learns that her grandma is sick, but “not the kind where you cough and blow your nose.” Grandma has Alzheimer’s disease, which is what makes her do strange things. And even though Grandma has to move out of her house and rely on nurses to care for her, Camille finds a way to continue their special traditions. Hardcover. Code: SMGO Price: $16.00
The “Can” in Cancer by Julia Cook. Eli is a young boy who finds out he has cancer. This creatively written book of hope follows Eli’s journey through the eyes of a patient, parents, siblings, teachers, health care providers, and friends. A must read for all who are searching for their “can” in Cancer. Code: CICO Price: $9.95 Illness in the Family–Children Confronting Uncertainty. 2kids Production. 44 minutes. DVD. This story, along with candid, open-ended interviews with kids ages 4-16, was created to help you understand what it’s like for children confroting the uncertainty of serious illness and what you can do to help. Code: IIFO Price: $44.95 Preparing the Children Information and Ideas for Families Facing Terminal Illness and Death by Kathy Nussbaum. Information children need to know during the illness and during the death, what children need to heal from their loss, how children can express themselves, learn about integrating death into their lives and search for new meaning. Code: PTCO Price: $9.95
Beyond the Rainbow A Workbook for Children in the Advanced Stages of a Very Serious Illness by Marge Heegaard.This book offers an honest, gentle way to help children face the advanced stages of their serious illness. Through the creative and interactive drawing activities in this book, kids can learn to communicate openly about their illness. Code: BTRO Price: $9.95 Living Well with My Serious Illness By Marge Heegaard. An art therapy book for helping children cope with the early stages of a serious illness. Sensitive exercises address the questions children have during this emotional and troubling crisis. Children are encouraged to express their feelings through pictures. Code: LWMO Price: $9.95 What About the Kids? Understanding Their Needs in Funeral Planning & Services by The Dougy Center. This book addresses the best practices for funeral and memorial services with children and teens. Learn how to include children in these rituals and creative ways to involve them in the process. Code: WAKO Price: $9.95 Staying Afloat By Suzanne Kornblatt and Joanna Formont, with Arlene Basner, Joan Perkell and Diane Silver. A Support Guide to Help Parents and Well Siblings Cope with Family Illness. If you know a child living in this situation, our book, Staying Afloat, offers you both insight and practical advice about the complicated feelings well children struggle with daily, as told through fictional examples based on real-life situations. Each story includes professional commentary and exercises to help the well-child identify and better understand his or her feelings. Staying Afloat is an invaluable tool that can truly help change lives. Code: SAFO Price: $30.00
Pet Loss Remember Rafferty by Joy Johnson. A book about the death of a pet. . .for children of all ages. This book is unique because of the scrapbook in the back for children to write down memories of their beloved pet. Rafferty is a family dog that gets very sick. The family makes the difficult decision to end his life. Talks about remembering your pet and grieving the loss. Code: RERC Price: 4.95 Good-bye My Friend Grieving the Loss of a Pet by Mary and Herb Montgomery. For all ages. Offers consolation at the time of death and comforts the pet owner throughout the grieving process. Feelings common to loss are explored. Beautiful illustrations throughout. Code: GMFO Price: $6.95 Ragtail Remembers – A story that helps children understand feelings of grief by Liz Duckworthy. Ragtail, a young mouse, has just lost his best friend, Tom the cat. As he tries to understand what has happened, Ragtail experiences many feelings. With the help of his new friend, he learns to deal with his feelings. Age 4-9. Code: RTRC Price: $9.95 Grunt by Suzanne Schlossberg Tamberrino. Grunt, a beloved dog, begins to age and not feel well. The family has to make an agonizing decision about Grunt so he won’t suffer. The family has a precious memorial and burial for Grunt. They realize that no dog can ever take his place, but they were happy to have so many wonderful memories of Grunt. Code: GRUC Price: $6.95
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Children’s Grief Resources Death of a Parent
The Scar by Charlotte Moundlic and illustrated by Oliver Tallec. When the boy in this story wakes to find that his mother has died, he is overwhelmed with sadness, anger, and fear that he will forget her. He doesn’t know how to speak to his dad anymore. With tenderness, touches of humor, and unflinching emotional truth, Charlotte captures the loneliness of grief through the eyes of a child. Hardcover. Code: TSOO Price: $14.99 Daddy’s Gone by Millie Richmond. For ages 5-10.Steps into the shoes of a young boy whose Dad has died recently. It validates his feelings of loss and offers a slice of hope, rather than a platter of platitudes. Brief and to the point, reaches out to children who experience such a loss and lets them know their feelings are normal. It also reaches out to adults, offering a perspective they may overlook. Code: DGOO Price: $9.99
These two picture books by Margaret Holmes have gentle illustrations and reassuring text to help young children understand the grief process. The author uses descriptive language that would appeal to a grieving child. The books validate both the negative and positive feelings and the behaviors that are typical for children who have lost a parent. There is a caregiver section at the back of the book that could help adults answer questions and deal with particular concerns.
Molly’s Mom Died
Sam’s Dad Died
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Am I Like My Daddy by Marcy Blesy. Join seven-year-old Grace on her journey through coping with the loss of her father while learning about the different ways that people grieve the loss of a loved one. Children are encouraged to express through journaling what my be difficult to express through everyday conversation. Code: AILO Price: $12.00
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I Heard Your Mommy Died By Mark Scrivani. You can use this book as a vehicle for talking about feelings and ways to cope with the death of a parent. Talks about the many changes that come and reassures the child that she is loved and will be taken care of. Ages 3-7. Code: IHYC Price: $5.95 I Heard Your Daddy Died By Mark Scrivani. Memories, keepsake and wearing Daddy’s shirts for sleepshirts are all encouraged. Whatever it is, your daddy is there in your heart. He loved you and you loved him. You still have a very big love, even though he died. Ages 3-7. Code: IHDC Price: $5.95 The Snowman by Robin Helene Vogel. The Snowman was the first Tommy and Buddy built since Dad died. They had Dad’s old pipe. They found his favorite scarf. His hat was ready and so were the big buttons for his eyes. And the two brothers were ready too, ready to talk about how Dad died and what his death meant to them. Code: SNOC Price: $6.95 Sunflowers and Rainbows for Tia By Alesia Alexander Greene. This story is about a child whose father dies at home. It follows the family from the night of the father’s death through the days following the funeral. The feelings of the child and the events surrounding her father’s death are realistically portrayed and caringly addressed. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the text is rich and descriptive. Code: SFRC Price: $7.95 Children’s Grief How to help the child whose parent has died. Begins with basic ideas, explaining the death, the funeral and memorial service, the grieving process, special situations, adjustment and support. Code: CHGO Price: $3.00
Getting Used to Candy by Helen Landalf. This book addresses the issue of dating and relationships of the parent after a spouse has died, through the eyes of a young girl. The young child has many emotions after her father starts dating again a year after the mother dies. “I know there’ve been a lot of changes lately,” Dad says softly. “I know it’s hard.” Code: GUCC Price: $4.99 Everett Anderson’s Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father’s death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett’s conflicting emotions as he confronts this painful reality. We see him struggle through many stages, from denial and anger to depression and, finally, acceptance. In this spare and moving poem, the last in this acclaimed series, Lucille Clifton brings Everett Anderson’s life full circle. Code: EAGO Price: $8.99
Divorce Talking About Divorce and Separation By Earl Grollman, Illustrated by Susanna Pitzer You are now walking down the lonely road of separation and divorce. How will you tell your child that you will no longer live together as a family? Includes a storybook section for children and adults to read together. Following is a section for parents to use to open up communication between the parent and child by giving discussion questions and helpful advice. Code: TADC Price: $4.99
The Tomorrows Children Face When a Parent Dies -DVD. Whether due to a long-term illness or a sudden death, a parent’s dying is perhaps the most devastating loss a child, teen, or young adult will experience during their formative years. Many questions are answered by children, teens and young adults, in thier own poignant words. Featured are The Dougy Center for Grieving Children, a nationally recognized center for grieving children. 47 minutes. Code: TCFO Price: $29.95 Dream Clouds by Alesia K. Alexander Lane and Illustrated by Nate Harris. A beautiful story about Adam, a young boy who loves baseball, bugs, and living in the city. He loves spending time with his family, and making wishes on clouds. When his mother dies suddenly, his wole world changes. Will the clouds be enough to hold his wishes now? Code: DCOO Price: $10.00
When Mom and Dad Separate Children Can Learn to Cope With Grief From Divorce by Marge Heegard. Designed to help your child understand and express the feelings they have about your separation or divorce. Activities in the book help develop coping skills. Code:WMOO Price: $9.95 What Parents Need to know from Kids about Divorce DVD. A compilation of candid interviews with kids ages 4-18 talking about their experiences of their parents’ divorce. They talk about their pain. They talk about their adjustment. They talk about their love and understanding. Code: KADO Price: $44.95 Spanish Version: Code: KDSO Price: $44.95 The D Word(Grades 2-6) Otis used to have the perfect family. That all changed when his parents told him that they were getting a D...D...D... The D Word he cant even say it! At first Otis blames himself. With the help of his Gram, Otis discovers the reasons why people get divorced. Code: TDWO Price: $9.95
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Children’s Grief Resources Teen/Adolescent Grief Fire In My Heart, Ice In My Veins A Journal for Teenagers by Enid Traisman. Teens can write letters, copy down meaningful lyrics, write songs and poems, tell the person who died what they want them to know, finish business and use their creativity to work through the grieving process. Teens can share their journal entries, thoughts or illustrations with other grieving teens. Code: FIMC Price: $9.95 When Death Walks In For teenagers facing death by Mark Scrivani. Helpful and supportive information for facing grief during the teen years. Gives important information about grief and what we can do about anger, sadness and all the emotions that come when death walks in. More information was added including taking care of yourself, dreams, memorializing your loved one, and going back to school. Revised 2005. Code: WDWC Price: $3.99 Straight Talk About Death For Teenagers How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love. By Earl Grollman. Explains what to expect when you lose someone you love. Discusses normal reactions, how grief can affect your relationships with family and friends, how participating in a funeral can help and how you can work through your grief and begin to live again. Code: STTO Price: $17.00 Help for the Hard Times Getting Through Loss by Earl Hipp. Talks openly about what grief is, getting through grief, growing through the hard times, healing, the gift of loss, and what you can learn. Easy and fun to read with helpful information. Real quotes from real people. Code: HHTO Price: $14.95 Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens 100 practical ideas - simple tips for understanding and experiencing your grief by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. Offers 100 practical, realistic ideas and teenfriendly suggestions. It’s simple, easy-to-use format makes it an ideal resource for teenagers coping with grief. Code: HATO Price: $11.95 Helping Teens Cope with Death From the Dougy Center, a center for grieving children. Learn how a death of a loved one can impact a teen and how to help. Explains common grief reactions of teenagers, specific challenges grieving teens face, when to seek professional help, and advice from other parents. Code: HTDO Price: $9.95 Teen Grief Relief Parenting with Understanding, Support and Guidance by Dr. Heidi Horsley and Dr. Gloria Horsley. Teenage grief is hard, lonely, and painful. Parents want to know: How can I help? Teen Grief Relief provides both parents and teens with the help they need. Shared here are teen stories, feelings, techniques, references and resources for use in not only surviving but thriving after the painful loss of a family member or close personal friend. Code: TGRO Price: $12.95 I Will Never Forget You A Teen Journal of Love and Remembrance by Emilio Parga, M.A. founder of The Solace Tree in Reno, NV. 56 pages for teens to write about Memories, Grief, the Funeral, On Coping, On Love and Life, Keepsakes and Healing. Code: IWNO Price: $9.95 Weird is Normal: When Teenagers Grieve by Jenny Lee Wheeler. Teens grieve differently from adults and often get lost in the shuffle after the death of a loved one. Jenny lost her father to cancer when she was fourteen and validates for her peers that they have the right to grieve in their own way and according to their own timetable, that their grief attacks might be different from those of adults around them, and that they aren’t going crazy if they see signs from their loved one. Code: WINO Price: $9.95
A Teen’s View of Grief DVD. Code: TVGO Price: $29.99
Facing Change Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years by Donna O’Toole. Talks about change and loss, what grief is, creating a support system, finding help; includes 75 positive things you can do when facing the death of a loved one, abuse, divorce, and more. Code: FACO Price: $6.95 The Common Threads of Teenage Grief By Teens who know and Janet Tyson. Written by a middle school counselor and nine teens, it is for teens, families and friends. Discusses struggles with grief, how they overcame it, and common questions teenagers ask. Code: CTTO Price: $12.95 When a Friend Dies By Marilyn E. Gootman, Ed.D. 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?” Code: WFDO Price: $9.99 Loss How Children and Teenagers Can Cope With Death and Other Kinds of Loss. Begins with basic ideas, explaining terminal illness and death, anticipating death, sudden and unexpected death, the funeral, and grieving process. Code: LOSO Price: $3.00 Gifts of Life for Teens When someone in your life is faced with a life limiting illness by Hospice of the Red River Valley. This book was created to give you a place to explore your feelings. Includes journaling, reading, talking and not talking. This book also provides tips for friends, parents and caring individuals wo want to help a teen during a difficult time. Code: GLTO Price: $4.50 A Different Way To Grieve–Journal and Activities for MiddleSchool Kids, by Middle School Kids by Allyson Siwajian with middle school kids. These middle school kids have creted a different way to grieve. It’s a way that’s meant just for their age group, 10-14. It includes art projects, journal pages, outdoor activities and more creative ideas. A Different Way to Grieve provides kids with powerful ways to remembers their loved ones. Code: DWGO Price: $11.95 Save the Teens: preventing suicide, depression, and addiction by Carolyn C. Zahnow. The conception for the book came after her son’s one year anniversary of his death. There is information on the mental disorders of major depression and bipolar disorder - the two most diagnosed among teens today. What is depression exactly and how do I know if my teen is depressed? And what causes depression? These are answered within the book. Code: STNO Price: $16.95 Out of the Shadows By Emilio Parga. A journal for pre-teens and teens who have had someone they love complete suicide. 40 pages for teens written from teens to document their feelings, write a letter, write a poem and write about memories on their own or in a group. Includes organizations, websites, facts about suicide. Code: OOSO Price: $9.95 A Teenager’s Book About Suicide Helping break the silence and preventing death by Earl Grollman and Joy Johnson. A workbook that includes information about the difficult teenage years, facts and myths about suicide, danger signals, emotional and behavioral changes, what you can do to help and breaking the silence. Code: TBSC Price: $4.95 Hurting Yourself For young people who have intentionally injured themselves by Jeanne Harper. This book is for young people who have tried to kill themselves, hurt themselves or overdosed by accident or purpose. If you feel no one will listen to you, prove yourself wrong. Code: HUYC Price: $3.50
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But I Didn’t Say Goodbye For parents and professionals helping child suicide survivors by Barbara Rubel. A needed book for caregivers, this book has personal stories, questions and answers, and intervention strategies, plus up-to-date resources. Includes a worksheet with helpful discussion questions. Code: BIDO Price: $14.95 Someone I Love Died By Suicide A story for child survivors and those who care for them by Doreen Cammarata. Designed for adult caregivers to read to surviving youngsters following a suicidal death. Wondering if you could have done something to prevent this suicide is normal. Nothing you said or did would have changed what happened. Code: SIDO Price: $15.99
When Someone Very Special Dies-Children Can Learn to Cope with Death and Grief by Marge Heegaard. Designed for children ages 6-12, to illustrate with pictures they choose to draw. Helps children learn about death and the feelings of grief and develop coping skills for life. Code: WSVO Price: $9.95 Available in Spanish: Cuando alguien muy especial muere Code: WSSO Price: $9.95
A Child Remembers A healing keepsake journal for children ages 8-12 by Enid Traisman. There is a place for them to write or draw favorite things, finding out about the death, the funeral and memorial service, going back to school, day to day feelings and honoring their loved one’s life. Code: CHRC Price: $8.95
After a Suicide Memories Live Forever A workbook for grieving kids by the Dougy Center. Works through A Memory Book For Grieving Children. Written and illustrated by issues of finding out about the suicide, feelings, dreams and Sharon Rugg. Words and pictures are created by young children. It is nightmares, questions kids have about suicide, talking with made to help children remember someone they love who died. friends, going back to school, ways to honor and remember the person who died. Code: MLFO Price: $5.00 Code: ASWO Price: $12.95 Available in Spanish: Los Recuerdos Viven Eternamente Code: MLSO Price: $5.00 Reactions By Alison Salloum. This excellent workbook can help children cope with grief and loss. This book provides places for individual responses, and also has suggestions for coping. It is written in simple but uncondescending terms, so children from six through fourteen will find comfort in it. Code: RTTC Price: $8.95 After A Murder A workbook for grieving kids By The Dougy Center. Works through issues of finding out about the homicide, feelings, dreams and nightmares, questions kids have, talking with friends, and going back to school. Code: AAMO Price: $12.95 Something Scary Happend to Me Helping kids who have experienced, or witnessed a violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire, can be a challenging prospect for counselors, parents and concerned adults. English: Code: SCWO Price: $5.95 Spanish: Code: SCSO Price: $5.95
When Something Terrible Happens Affirms that children can learn to cope with loss and change. Children are given the opportunity to work out their emotions during difficult times. Self-esteem increases as the child develops coping skills for loss and change. Code: WSTO Price: $9.95 Beautiful Dragons and Other Fears Workbook by Joy Johnson. This extremely helpful book contains information about fears and activities for children of all ages. Workbook pages include drawing their fears, ways to overcome bad dreams, courage badges, deep beathing exercises and more. Code: BDFC Price: $6.95
Love Never Stops– A Memory Book For Children by Emilio Parga M.A. This activity book is for children who have had someone significant die in their life. Children today are faced with uncertainty and have many thoughts and feelings about their loss. This activity book will start the conversation between you and a grieving child. It is intended for children 6 to 12. Code: LNSO Price: $7.95
Treasured Memories of a Special Person by Mary Herta Jamerino. This workbook can be used by any age child for the death of any loved one. It is full color throughout and includes pages for funniest memory, happiest memory, wishes, hopes, favorite foods shared and more. Includes a page for adults helping children grieve. Code: TREO Price: $11.95
My Grieving Journey Book By Donna and Eve Shavatt. A complete workbook that covers everything. Includes: I miss you, I feel sad, I don’t believe it, I don’t feel anything, It’s my fault, I don’t feel good, I’m scared, I have bad dreams, & a note to caregivers. Code: MGJO Price: $11.95
After a Death The Dougy Center. With a mixture of creative activities and tips for dealing with changes at school, home and with friends. We’ve included a variety of drawing and writing exercises to help children remember the person who died, and learn new ways to live with the loss. Code: ADAO Price: $12.95 The Moon Balloon A Journey of Hope and Discovery for Children and Families by Joan Drescher/Foreword by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Open your heart, drop your fears, relax and get in touch with your feelings, this 40 page colorfully illustrated interactive journal. This wonderful resource has been used to help children of all ages express their emotions and feel better about themselves
Stately Queens & Shining Knights and the world. A book for parents and caregivers helping children experiencing fear by Joy Code: MBPO Price: $16.00 Johnson. A remarkable book for parents and caregivers alike. Includes history of fear, activities, what to expect; actions of children, kinds of fears and a Kids Can Cope dragon breathing technique. An Activity Book From Children for Children who are Living Code: SQSC Price: $3.95 With Change and Loss by Emilio Parga, M.A. The book offers opportunities for children to describe what is happening, draw pictures, engage in other activities and learn The Ant Hill Disaster by Julia Cook. After the Ant Hill School is destroyed, a little more about themselves and the strength they do have to boy ant is afraid to go back to schoolnatural and man-caused disasters. This book can cope with change. help assure children that through love, empathetic understanding, preparation, and Code: KCCO Price: $9.95 effective communication. Code: AHCO Price: $9.95
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