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2012-2013 Catalog of Grief Resources

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The Nation’s Oldest and Largest Bereavement Resource Center 2012-2013 Catalog of Grief Resources

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Content Section One: Adult Grief Resources

Your Centering Family

Healing Music Page 4

Adult Grief Resources Pages 4-6

Men and Grief Page 7 Funerals Page 7

Women and Grief Page 7

Suicide Survivors Page 8

Guilt and Anger Page 9

Holidays and Special Days Page 9

Death of a Parent Page 10 Pet Loss Page 10

Death of a Spouse Page 11

Professional and Support Groups Page 12

Helping Others Page 13 Illness Page 14

Developmental Disabilities Page 15

Sibling Grief Page 15

Overdose/Unexpected Loss Page 15

Young Adult Page 15

Section Two: Death

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Suicide Page 16

Death of a Child Page 16-20

Sympathy Cards Page 20

Afterlife Communication Page 20

Section Three: Infant Loss Resources

Miscarriage and Newborn Death Page 21-22

Memory Books Page 23

Healing A Father’s Grief Page 23

Small Handouts Page 23 T-Shirt Page 23

Burial Gown Page 23

Comfee Doll Page 23

Grieving Grandparents Page 24

Sibling Grief Page 24 Caregivers Page 25

Funeral Planning Page 25

Difficult Decisions Page 25

NICU Infants Page 26

Section Four: Children’s Grief Resources

Creative & Healing Tools Page 27

Workbooks and Memory Books Page 28

Sibling Grief Page 28

Memory Bands Page 29 Pet Loss Page 29

Explaining Death and Grief Page 29-30 Illness Page 31-32

For Educators Page 32-33

Death of a Grandparent Page 34

Death of a Parent Page 35

Teen/Adolescent Grief Page 36 Suicide Page 37

Fear, Trauma and Homicide Page 37

Separation and Divorce Page 37

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Some titles can be special ordered or may even be in our resource center.

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.

Centering Heals Grief

• Breathe deep • Reach out • Take comfort • Breathe deep • Find courage • Tell your story • Feel real • Breathe deep • Go inside • Keep patience • Breathe deep

Thank you! Centering Corporation is a non-profit, bereavement resource center.

We would like to thank all of our authors, contributors, supporters and consultants.

Resource List 25 Things to Do P. 27 35 Ways to Help a Grieving P. 33 Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope P. 28 ABCs of Healthy Grieving P. 6 African American Spiritual P. 14 After A Murder P. 37 After A Death P. 28 After A Parent’s Suicide P. 8 After A Suicide P. 37 After Suicide Loss P. 8 After the Darkest Hour P. 18 After the Loss of Your Baby P. 26 After the Murder of my Son P. 15 Always My Brother P. 28 Always Too Soon P. 10 Am I Going Crazy?

P. 19 Am I Still A Sister?

P. 24 An Empty Cradle, A Full P. 22 Andy’s Mountain P. 17 Angel T-shirt P. 23 Animal Crackers P. 34 Another Baby? Maybe P. 21 Art of Being a Healing P. 13 Art of Helping Others P. 13 Ask Me P. 8, 16 Babka’s Serenade P. 26 Baby Talk & Special P. 26 Bandages For Your Heart P. 12 Baseball Forever!

P. 28 Beautiful Dragons WorkBk P. 35 Being With Parents P. 23 Bereaved Parent, The P. 18 Beyond Prenatal Choice P. 25 Beyond Tears P. 18 Beyond the Rainbow P. 31 Birdhouse Project, The P. 19 Boob Girls, The P. 7 Boob Girls, The II P. 7 Boob Girls, The III P. 7 Brightest Star, The P. 35 Building Memories P. 7, 25 Bunch of Balloons, A P. 30 Burial Gown–Large P. 23 Burial Gown–Medium P. 23 Burial Gown–Small P. 23 Burial Gown–X-Small P. 23 But I Didn’t Say Goodbye P. 8, 37 Butterflies, Angels & Roses P. 17 Butterfly Song CD, The P. 4 Candle in the Window CD P. 19 Catching the Light P. 17 Caregiver’s Handbook, A P. 24 Caregiving P. 14 Celebration of Life, A P. 14 Chicken Soup Grieving P. 6 Child Remembers, A P. 28 Children Also Grieve P. 29 Children Die, Too P. 19 Children Die, Too Spanish P. 19 Children Grieve, Too P. 33 Children’s Grief P. 35 Child’s View of Grief, A P. 33 Christmas Cactus, The P. 9 Class In Room 44 P. 32 Come, Walk With Me P. 13 Comfee Doll Pillow P. 26 Comfort Us Lord P. 21 Comfort P. 20 Common Threads of Teen P. 36 Companioning At A Time P. 25 Complete Book About Death P. 29, 34 Coping With Traumatic P. 15 Couple Communication P. 21 Cowbells and Courage P. 11 Creating a New Normal P. 19 Creative Interventions P. 27 Crying Handbook, The P. 5 Death and the American P. 4 Dear Parents P. 18 Death of a Child, The P. 18 Death of an Infant Twin P. 23 Difficult Decisions P. 25 Disenfranchised Grief P. 12 Doggone Grief Game P. 27 Don’t take my grief away P. 5 Dreaming Kevin P. 20 Dying Is. . .

P. 14 Dying to be Free P. 8 Ectopic Pregnancy P. 22 Ectopic Pregnancy, Spanish P. 22 Embracing Laura P. 25 Empty Arms P. 21 Empty Arms, Spanish P. 21 Empty Cradle: Broken Heart P. 21 Empty Place, The P. 28 Everette Andrerson’s P. 35 Facing Change P. 36 Fall of Freddie the Leaf, The P. 30 FatherLoss P.10 Fathers Grieve, Too P. 23 Fathers Grieve, Too, Spanish P. 23 Feeling Hearts Stones P. 27

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Fernside Idea Book P. 12 Final Gifts P. 14 Finding Grandpa Everywhere P. 34 Finding Your Way/Parent P. 10 Finding Your Way/Spouse P.11 Fire In My Heart, Ice In My P. 36 First You Die P. 18 Flower’s on a Child’s Grave P. 19 Footsteps Through Grief P. 18 For a Grieving Heart P. 10 For a Grieving Mothers P. 19 For Bereaved Grandparents P. 20 For Better Or Worse P. 20 Forever Angel, A P. 26 Garden Angel, The P. 34 Getting Past Christmas P. 9 Gifts of Life P. 31 Gifts of Life for Teens P. 32 Given in Love P 26 Giving Care, Taking Care P. 25 Giving Sorrow Words P. 26 Goodbye Gram P. 34 Good Grief P. 4 Good Grief Pet Loss P. 10 Good Words: Eulogy P. 7 Goodbye My Child P. 18 Goodbye My Friend P. 10, 29 Grandfather Hurant Lives P. 34 Grandpa’s Soup P. 34 Grandparent’s Sorrow, A P. 24 Great Answers to Difficult... P. 33 Grief Bubble, The P. 29 Grief Comes to Class P. 32 Grief Guide and Healing P. 6 Grief In the Workplace P. 12 Grief Is Like a Snowflake P. 30 Grief Is Like Activity P. 30 Grief: Is the Normal?

P. 19 Grief of Grandparents, The P. 24 Grief of Parents, The P. 16 Grief Recovery Handbook P. 5 Grief Works: Sudden Death P. 15 Grief, Spanish Version P. 5 Grief, Sympathy Card P. 5 Grief: A Natural Reaction P. 15 Grief: What It Is P. 5 Griefjourney P. 15 GriefWork P. 12 Grievers Ask P. 6 Grieving Child, The P. 33 Grieving Death of a Friend P. 15 Grieving Death of a Mother P. 10 Grieving Grandparents P. 24 Guide For The Bereaved P. 5 Guide Understanding Guilt P. 9 Handbook for Ber Research P. 12 Handling the Holidays DVD P. 9 Hannah’s Gift P. 19 Happy Again P. 4 Healing Child’s Gr Heart P. 33 Healing A Father’s Grief P. 17 Healing A Friend’s Gr. Heart P. 13 Healing A Parent’s Gr Heart P. 19 Healing Activities Children P. 27 Healing After Loss P. 4 Healing After Suicide Loss P. 8 Healing Grief P. 6 Healing Grief, Spanish P. 6 Healing Moments P. 11 Healing the Hurt Spirit P. 8 Healing Your Holiday Grief P. 9 Healing Together P. 21 Healing Your Grieving Heart P. 8 Healing Grieving Heart Kids P. 30 Healing Grieving Heart Teen P. 36 Heartpeace P. 4 Hello From Heaven P. 20 Help for the Hard Times P. 36 Help Me Say Goodbye P. 27 Help Your Marriage P. 20 Helping Children Cope P. 33 Helping Children Grieve/GR P. 33 Helping People Development P. 15 Helping Teens Cope P. 36 Helping Teens Cope DVD P. 36 Helping the Bereaved. . .

P. 9 Helping the Grieving Student P. 32 Hitch P. 5 Holiday Blues P. 9 Holiday Hope P.9 Hospital Friends P. 31 How Can I Help?

P. 25 How A Foutune Cook Can P. 5 How Do We Tell the P. 33 How I Feel P. 30 How To Design Grief Groups P. 12 How To Go On Living. . . P. 5 How To Start and Lead P. 12 How Will I Get Through P. 9 Hurting Yourself P. 37 I Have No Intention P. 19 I Heard Your Daddy Died P. 35

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I Heard your Mommy Died P. 35 I Know I Made It Happen P. 30 I Remember, I Remember P. 4, 11 I Walked A Mile W/Sorrow P. 18 I Wasn’t Ready to Goodbye P. 15 I Will Hold You In My Heart P. 23 I Will Never Forget You P. 36 I Wonder What. . .Heaven P. 31 If I Could Just See Hope P. 6 In Abba’s Arms P. 22 In My Mother’s Kitchen P. 10 In My World P. 31 In Mourning Band P. 6, 15,29 Inside a Broken Heart P. 11 Into the Cave P. 7 Into the Valley and Out P. 17 Invisible Ink P. 10 Journey Through Grief P. 33 Journey Through Shadows P. 8 Journey Through Widow P. 11 Journey’s End P. 14 Just A Touch Away P. 4 Just One Day P. 32 Katie’s Premature Brother P. 26 Keys to Helping Children P. 33 Kids Can Cope P. 32 Lazarus, Come Out! P. 12 Lean On Me Gently P. 33 Learning to Laugh P. 11 Letters to my Son P. 18 Life After the Death of Son P. 16 Life Isn’t Always A Day P. 31 Life of Bud, The P. 32 Life Touches Life P. 22 Life With Grief P. 15 Lifetimes P. 30 Light A Candle & Songs P. 4 Light A Candle Book P. 4 Lighting the Path P. 14 Lilacs for Grandma P. 34 Little Footprints P. 23 Little Footprints, Spanish P. 23 Living Well With My Illness P. 31 Living When A Loved One P. 6 Losing A Parent P. 10 Loss P. 36 Lost and Found P. 28 Lost No More P. 16 Love and Remembrance P. 20 Love Never Dies P. 17 Love Never Ends Card P. 20 Love Never Stops P. 28 Loving and Letting Go P. 26 Lucy Lettuce P. 26 Making Lemonade P. 15 Making Loving Memories P. 25 Man You Know Is Grieving P. 7 Memories P. 34 Memories Are Forever Tee P. 14 Memories Live Forever P. 28 Memories Live Forever, Spa P. 28 Memories Live Forever Star P. 27 Memories of Our Baby P. 23 Memory Box, The P. 34 Memory Garden Game P. 27 Men and Grief DVD P. 7 Mending the Broken Heart P. 20 Message of Hope, A P. 16 Miscarriage P. 21 Miscarriage, Spanish Version P. 21 Miscarriage: A Man’s Book P. 23 Miscarriage: A Shattered P. 21 Molly’s Mom Died P. 35 Moon Balloon, The P. 32 Mother’s Tears P. 20 More Than Surviving P. 6, 25 MotherCare P. 22 Mourning Discoveries Holi P. 22 Mourning Discoveries Packet P. 7 Mourning Pin, The P. 5 Mural for Mamita, A P. 34 My Always Memories P. 31 My Always Sister P. 24 My Friends Dolls P. 27 My Grief Rights Wallet P. 27 My Grieving Journey Book P. 28 My Memory Bag P. 27 My NICU Baby Book P. 26 My Personal Pet Journal P. 10 My Son, My Son P. 16 Never the Same P. 10 New Baby P. 26 No Bigger Than My Teddy P. 26 No New Baby P. 24 No New Baby Original P. 24 No New Baby, Spanish P. 24 No Time For Goodbyes P. 15 Nobody’s Child Anymore P. 10 Not Just Another Day P. 9 Now I Sleep P. 22

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Next Place, The P. 30 On Grief and Grieving P. 12 Oncology, Stupolgy P. 31 One You Love is Dying P. 14 One Who Soars Band P. 6, 29 Only Spring P. 19 Open to Hope P. 17 Open to Hope: Holiday P. 17 Other Side of Grief, The P. 20 Our New Baby Needs Help P. 26 Out of the Shadows P. 37 Parent’s Guide to Raising P. 35 Parting Is Not Goodbye P. 17 Parntered Grief P. 11 Peace & Remembrance P. 26 Planning a Meaningful P. 7 Planning a Precious Goodbye P. 25 Plans P. 26 Pocket Stones P. 5 Power of Grieving Book P. 6 Power of Grieving Cards P. 6 Power of Presence, The P. 13 Precious Lives, Painful P. 25 Preparing the Children P. 31 Purple Balloon, The P. 31 Quick Guides P. 14 Ragtail Remembers P. 29 Rainbows and Rain P. 6 Ray of Hope, A P. 9 Reactions to Trauma P. 37 Real Men Do Cry P. 17 Remember Rafferty P. 29 Remembering Our Baby P. 24 Remembering: The Death P. 17 Remembering With Love P. 18 Remembering You P. 6 Rocky Roads P. 16 Roses In December P. 17 Sam’s Dad Died P. 35 Save The Teens P. 37 Saying Goodbye P. 29 Saying Goodbye, Spanish V P. 29 Saying Goodbye to Someone P. 13 Shelter in the Storm P. 13 Sibling Grief/Ilse P. 24 Sibling Grief: For Parents P. 28 Sibling Grief/P. White P. 15 SIDS and Infant Survival P. 21 SIDS and Infant, Spanish P. 21 Silent Grief/Infant Loss P. 22 Silent Grief/Suicide P. 8 Since My Brother Died P. 28 Single Parent Grief P. 22 Six Simple Weeks P. 12 Smiling Through Your Tears P. 14 Snowman, The P. 35 Solace P. 5 Someone Came Before You P. 24 Someone I Love is Sick P. 32 Someone I Loved Died P. 37 Something Happened P. 24 Something Scary- English P. 35 Space Between Breaths P. 19 Special Babies P. 23 Special Babies, Spanish P. 23 Standing Beside You P. 18 Stars in the Deepest Night P. 17 Stately Queens and Shining P. 35 Stepping Through the Awk P. 13 Spiritual Woman P. 6 Still My Grandma P. 31 Still To Be Born P. 22 Stillbirth P. 21 Straight Talk About Death P. 36 Strong and Tender P. 23 Sugar Cookies and a Night P. 19 Suicide of a Child P. 16 Suicide Survivor’s Handbook P. 8 Sunflower Promise P. 30 Sunflowers and Rainbows P. 35 Support Cards P. 12 Supporting Children:Parents P. 33 Supporting Children:Schools P. 32 Surviving the Death Sibling P. 15 Swallowed by a Snake P. 7 Swan in Heaven P. 20 Sweet Memories P. 27 Talking About Death P. 30 Talking About Divorce P. 37 Talking With Children P. 24 Teacher’s Guide Student, A P. 32 Tear Soup P. 4, 30 Tear Soup DVD P. 4, 30 Tear Soup, Spanish Edition P. 4, 30 Teenager’s Book Suicide, A P. 37 Teen Grief Relief P. 36 Teen’s View of Grief, A P. 36 Tell Me, Papa P. 29 The ‘D’ Word P. 37 This Little While P. 22 This Little While, Spanish P. 22

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Caring Sympathy Cards Back Cover 4This is a Special Time Caring 4Thinking of You 4Forever in our Hearts 4Your precious child will live 4Peace 4Spanish Sympathy Card 4Togeher, friend 4Love is Constant 4Butterfly

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El Cuento De Thumpy English Version: Thumpy’s Story Code: THSO Price: $8.00 Since My Brother Died, Desde Que Murio Mi Hermano Code: SMBC Price: $5.95 Los Recuerdos Viven Eternamente English Version: Memories Live Forever Code: MLSO Price: $5.00 A Mural For Mamita - - Un Mural Para Mamita, Code: MFMC Price: $8.95 El Hermano Prematuro

English Version: Katie’s Premature Brother

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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. The single CD by ASCAP award winner is haunting and calls us all to find hope in a beautiful memorial ceremony. 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 instrumentally to life 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 Light a Candle Gift Book Beautifully designed hard cover gift book features the timeless lyrics of this treasured song, along with inspirational photos and reflections that offer a treasure of love, hope and remembrance. It also includes the CD.

Code: LCBO Price: $16.95 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 Light a Candle and Songs 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

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: $10.00

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Happy Again! Your New and Meaningful Life After Loss. By Harriet Hodgson. The 100-page resource details Hodgson’s experiences with multiple losses, being a GRG (grandparent raising grandchildren), coping tips, what worked and what didn’t, and ways to create a new life. Mourners will identify with the chapter titles: Life’s New Rolls, and more.

Code: HPAG Price: $10.95 HeartPeace by Richard Gilbert. A Guide for Grieving Folks. The death of a loved one, of a relationship, of a marriage, of a dream, are experiences of an ending, or many endings, and we are shattered and scattered as we hopelessly try to fit the pieces of our lives back together again. This book will help guide you.

Code: HEPO Price: $9.95

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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: $2.95

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 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 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: $11.95 Death and the American Indian

By Gerry Cox. A sociological analysis of the culture, dying and death practices of Native Americans. It is written from a sociological perspective based upon a lifetime of experience and study of the American Indian, oral histories gathered from visiting over forty reservations, the work of many scholars, the contributions of many.

Code: DAIG Sale Price: $18.75

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Adult Grief Resources 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: $3.50 Spanish Version: Aflicción - qué es y qué puedes hacer Code: GRSC Price: $3.50 Spanish Sympathy Card: (This is a special time for caring) Code: 4SSC Price: $1.50 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 longterm features of grief.

Code: GBSO Price: $5.00 Don’t take my grief away from me.

By Doug Manning. In his warm, conversational style he takes the reader through all the emotions and experiences that accompany the death of a loved one.

The first section deals with those first days after the death and the second picks up at the grief journey.

Code: DTMO Price: $8.95 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 wherever 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 and helps you find the best way for yourself.

Code: HLWO Price: $17.00 Transcending Loss Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful by Ashley Prend. This is a book about death and grief, yes, but more importantly it is a book about love and hope. I have learned from [my interviews with] courageous people about pain, struggle, resiliency, and meaning. Their stories show that over time, you can learn to transcend.

Code: TRLO Price: $15.00 The Grief Recovery Handbook Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others’, the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss.

Code: GRHO Price: $16.99

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

Writing to Recover 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. It moves on quickly to the Preface, which details the author’s experience with multiple losses.

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 Writing to Recover Journal A companion to Writing to Recover, the Writing to Recover Journal has one purpose – to get you to keep writing about loss and grief. Its 100 writing affirmations foster writing and brighten your days.

Code: WRJC Price: $7.95 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 How a Fortune Cookie Can Heal Grief How to find twelve gifts of hope by Nan Zastrow: Nan challenged individuals to participate in a project using the fortune cookie as the tool. The project offered Twelve Gifts of Hope that the bereaved can either receive from others or give to themselves. This book documents the proven results. Each Gifts of Hope is outlined in detail with suggestions that will appeal to everyone as they discover the power to heal their own grief.

Code: FCHG Price: $11.95 Hitch By Nan Zastrow A collection of creative writing and journal entries about finding hope on the journey of grief. In this book, Nan demonstrates the power of words. She creates vivid pictures that allow the reader to be present to the moments she describes. She writes about rebuilding identity after loss, transformed relationships, and the small victories leading to hope.

Code: HITG Price: $10.95 Solace How do you grieve the loss of a loved one? Is it best to seek the comfort of others or go it alone? Stay stoically strong or let it out? Does it take weeks, months, years? Actually, says Dr. Roberta Temes, we all experience and process grief in our own unique way. No one can tell you exactly how you’ll feel or what to do, but with Solace as your guide, you’ll understand the stages of your grief and your changing and sometimes conflicting emotions.

Code: SOLO Price: $14.95

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Adult Grief Resources Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul Stories about Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One. This collection of inspirational stories will undoubtedly provide comfort to readers who have lost someone close to them. Written by authors who have lost loved ones.

Code: CSSO Price: $14.95 ABCs of Healthy Grieving

By Harold Ivan Smith. Losing a loved one is wrenching, and, in times of grief, wordy reading on healing offers little solace. Each suggestion starts with a letter of the alphabet and ends with an “I can” statement that offers both realistic hope and a goal toward which to strive.

Code: ABCO Price: $12.95 More Than Surviving Caring for yourself while you grieve by Kelly Osmont.

This very helpful resource includes information about the grief process, how stress from grief affects us, motivators to caring for yourself, support=nourishment, touch and its healing effect, foods, supplements, quiet time, dreams, exercise, and a new beginning.

Code: MTSC Price: $4.95 Healing Grief A Medic resource by Amy Hillyard Jensen. Very basic and packed with helpful information. Talks about feelings and reactions and what to expect when you’re grieving. A perfect handout with little cost.

Code: HEGO Price: $3.50 Spanish Edition: Curando El Pesar

Code: HESO Price: $3.50 Healing Your Grieving Heart 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt. When someone we love dies, we must express our grief if we are to heal. This book offers practical, here-and-now suggestions for helping yourself mourn. Turn to any page and take a small step toward healing. Sometimes your friends want to support you but don’t know how.

Code: HYGO Price: $11.95 If I Could Just See Hope

By 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 Grievers Ask Answers to Questions about Death and Loss by Harold Ivan Smith. Compiles over 150 common questions, explores the emotions behind them, and provides clear and forthright responses.

Code: GRAO Price: $14.99

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, Irealized it could also empower them.”

Men willalso find empowerment within its pages.

Code: TSWG Price: $10.95 Rainbows and Rain: Finding Comfort in Times of Loss by Peggy Waterfall. We learn that it is possible to feel joy again, but we must first give ourselves permission to grieve. When we find it difficult to express to others what we are experiencing, this book gives us the strength to be patient with ourselves and provides words to help us describe life’s most indescribable emotions.

Code: RARO Price: $12.99 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 facets of grief, begin to heal, and slowly build new lives.

Code: LWLO Price: $13.00 One Who Soars Bands are a wonderful expression of grief. The white indicates the journey from the loss into more peaceful remembrance.

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In Mourning Bands are a wonderful expression of grief for the newly bereaved. Many families purchase these to give out at funeral services to family and friends, as a way to tell others of their sorrow.

The black indicates the overwhelming sorrow and grief often deeply felt by the bereaved.

Code: INMO Price: $2.00 The Power of Grieving is an inspirational guide that gently leads you through the grieving process...before, during and after your loss. Stories and examples by ordinary people help pave the way beyond simple survival. Although the pain of loss may never completely go away, you can choose to rediscover the joys of life from a different perspective.

Code: TPGO Price: $13.95 The Power of Grieving Healing Cards These 48 inspirational healing cards gently lead you through the grieving process before, during, and after your loss. They complement the book, The Power of Grieving, by MJ Boggini-Atkins, M.Ed.,LPC. Code: TPCO Price: $11.95 Remembering You A wonderful collection of reminiscent vignettes that beautifully captures the meaning of love, friendship, life and loss. Author Mick Blackistone and photographers Charles and Travis Bethmann have created a work that is sure to nourish hearts and souls of survivors struggling with grief.

Code: RMYC (Regular Price: $11.95)

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Adult Grief Resources Men and Grief

Funerals

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

Good Words: Memorializing Through A Eulogy teaches how a eulogy can help us in difficult times of grief. It’s about who our loved ones were—the human qualities, virtues, and noble deeds that made them people of value in the world. This book walks readers through the writing process to help them develop powerful and personal eulogies. It also helps readers learn how to deliver the eulogy effectively.

Good Words is full of useful information about eulogies like how and when to include children in the ceremony, how to revise and polish a eulogy after the funeral or memorial ceremony, and how various religious perspectives from a wide variety of spiritual traditions might influence the eulogy.

Code: GOWG Price: $19.95

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

Into the Cave When Men Grieve by Dr. Ron Petrie. Looks at the differences between men and women as they go through the grieving process. It is based on experience and observation by someone who has gone, and is still going, down the path of recovery.

Gives insight, understanding and direction.

Code: ITCO Price: $14.00

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

Women 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 Girls burned out old broads who dine together at Meadow f 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-outloud fun read and a look into relationships every mature woman wants and deserves.

Code: BOGG Price: $12.95

The

The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12 A Novel by Joy Johnson

The Boob Girls 2 Grab your cup of coffee or tea and find out if cowboy wannabe Wiley Vondra and Mary Rose really do make out in the end. Adventure and romance await you!

Code: BOTG Price: $14.95 The Boob Girls 3 She’s a gorgeous gypsy and she takes them back to Ft Robinson in the Nebraska sandhills where the girls, Wes and Wiley dream themselves back into the colorful histoy of the fort. Wes witnesses the death of Crazy Horse, Hadley meets a very young Maggie Patten and Mary Rose finds herself in one of the Crawford, NE.

Code: BG3G Price: $14.95

Also available from author Beth Hewett are six booklets adapted from Good Words: Memorializing Through A Eulogy.

Each booklet has specific information and guidance unique to certain occassions and settings, including particular concerns for developing 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).

Code: GWRG $5.95

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Code: GNTG $5.95

Code: GCVG $5.95

Code GDSG $5.95

Mourning Discoveries© Family Care Series™

By Linda B. Findlay. Four books to help families navigate through grief towards healing…Includes four 30-36 page books. Each book is written to address issues that are commonly experienced during the first year following the loss of a loved one to death. Family Care Package to send out to families for the first year.

• 1st month. Book 1-Speaks to the needs of the newly bereaved.

• 3rd month. Book 2-Speaks to challenges and needs.

• 6th month. Book 3-Speaks to the bereaved.

• 11th month. Book 4-Speaks the first anniversary of the death.

Code: FCSO Price: $21.95

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: $3.25 Planning A Meaningful Cremation Funeral A Guide for Families by Doug Manning. Answers questions about cremation and the choices that need to be made to create a special funeral service.

Code: PMFO Price: $3.25

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Adult Grief Resources Suicide Survivors, see page 18 also.

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 Suicide Survivors’ Handbook A Guide for the Bereaved and Those Who Wish to Help Them. By Trudy Carlson. Deals with the question WHY, 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 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 surviving parent is 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

Voices of Strength Sons and Daughters of Suicide Speak Out Authors Judy Zoints Fox and Mia Roldan share the results of their survey of children of a parental suicide. Exploring the ways their lives have been affected and addressing the emotional, psychological, and physical effects, daughters and sons of all ages — from children to adolescents to adults — reveal their reactions. Helps survivors make sense of life’s least understandable act and shows them how to heal by focusing on comfort, memories, recovery, and hopes for a productive future.

Code: VOSO Price: $14.95 Understanding Your Suicide Grief Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. This compassionate guide will help you understand the normal and necessary journey through suicide grief. Ten touchstones guide you through physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual actions needed to help with the healing process.

Code: UDSO Price: $14.95 Journey Through the Shadows Hope for Healing After Someone you Love has Committed Suicide. Suicide deeply affects the lives of those who are left behind by the one who has died.

With so much pain and sorrow it is difficult to know how to navigate these changes. This DVD offers encouragement and support to survivors who are both grieving the death of a loved one to suicide, and wondering why it happened at all. Advice from experts and family members who have walked this path combines with resources that teach friends how they can help.

Code: JTSO Price: $59.99 Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One

By Ann Smolin, C.S.W., and John Guinan, Ph.D. While each individual becomes a suicide survivor in his or her own way, there are predictable phases of pain that most survivors experience sooner or later, from the grief and depression of mourning to guilt, rage, and despair over what you have lost. Filled with case studies, excellent information, valuable advice, this valuable book will give you the strength and hope to go on.

Code: HASO Price: $14.00

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-todate resources. Includes a worksheet with helpful discussion questions.

Code: BIDO Price: $14.95

Silent Grief Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself - several members of his family have taken their own lives - and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Gives valuable insights into living in the wake of suicide and provides useful strategies and support for those affected by a suicide, as well as professionals in the field of psychology, and social work.

Code: STGO Price: $19.95

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Adult Grief Resources Holidays and Special Days

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!

Code: NJAC Price: $3.50 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 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.

Code: GPCC Price: 75¢

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.

Code: THOO Price: $3.25

Mourning Discoveries: 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.

Code: MDHO Price: $5.00 Healing Your Holiday Grief

By Alan Wolfelt. Grieving the death of someone loved is always hard, but during the holiday season it can seem overwhelming. This practical book answers these questions and more in Dr. Wolfelt’s popular 100 ideas format.Topics covered include honoring your thoughts and feelings, giving yourself permission to mourn, deciding what is important and what isn’t, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress and more.

Code: HYHO Price: $11.95

A Ray of Hope DVD

by Paul Alexander 45 min. Facing the Holidays Following a Loss. You will learn ways to support yourself during a holiday season. Other bereaved people give wisdom and creative ideas. The ideas, options and suggestions will empower you.

Code: RDVO Price: $44.95

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!

Code: HOBC Price: $4.00 Holiday Hope Remembering Loved Ones During Special Times of the Year. Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, anniversaries, and birthdays can be difficult for those whose loved one dies. Advice, activities, essays, stories, poems and music to help us cope during these special times.

Code: HHOO Price: $10.95

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

SALE! The Christmas Cactus

By Elizabeth Wrenn. Don’t forget about the kids!

This beautiful book is perfect to be read to children in honor of their loved one. In this story 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. Excellent holiday gift book.

Code: CRCC Price: $4.97 (1/2 off. Reg. $9.95)

Guilt and Anger 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 If you don’t see it in our catalog, please ask. . . we may have it at our office.

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of a Parent

Invisible Ink: The Journey Beyond Words As daughters who have lost their mothers know, it is not uncommon to suddenly sense that they are near.

Whether through a particularly powerful dream or a whiff of their scent that comes from out of nowhere, many women have an unexplainable “knowing” that they have been visited by their beloved mothers.

Through intimate letters the author wrote to her mother after her death, followed by her mother’s loving “responses,”the invisible ink that flows between them lets readers witness the ongoing spiritual nature of their mother-daughter relationship.

Code: IVIO Price: $14.95 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: $14.00 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 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: $12.95 FatherLoss How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Death of their Dads. By Neil Chethik. Based on a national survey of more than 300 men and in-depth interviews with others, this book talks about the male grieving process and gives practical advice to help guide sons through the loss of their fathers.

Code: FALO Price: $14.95 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 Never the Same Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent by Donna Schuurman, Executive Director of The Dougy Center.

The death of a parent during childhood is a pivotal life event that influences a person forever. Helps those who have lost a parent as a child reflects on their unique experience, understand its impact, and heal.

Code: NTSO Price: $15.99

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: $14 .99 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 many others.

Code: ATSO Price: $14.95 For a Grieving Heart When someone is grieving over the loss of a loved one, it is often hard to know how to be there for them, even though we want to. With the poetry and verse she wrote during her own journey through the grief of losing her son, along with beautiful photography that supports the emotion of her words, Terri Ann Leidich has created a book that can speak for us. Designed to be a gift to someone in grief.

Code: FGHO Price: $16.95

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 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 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.

Code: GMFO Price: $4.95

Good Grief: Finding Peace After Pet Loss shows you how to: Emotionally prepare for a pet’s euthanasia — understand when it’s time. View death not as an ending, but (as animals see it) a natural transformation.

Take care of yourself around insensitive people. Memorialize and celebrate your pet’s life.Move on after your loss and love again

Code: GGPO Price: $21.95

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Adult Grief Resources Death of a Spouse or Life Partner 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 Cowbells and Courage Pat Page’s wife died after almost fifty years of marriage. Now he sits and talks with men about everything from dating to cooking to anger, tears and even S-E-X. Essential for all men. For a while, I was worried about going crazy but my old cronies, upon whom I have leaned a lot, assured me that I was already crazy and not to give that any more thought.

Code: CACC Price: $3.50 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: $13.95 Companion Through the Darkness Inner Dialogues on Grief by Stephanie Ericson.

Stephanie wrote this book after her own experience with loss. It is especially good for young widows. Its purpose is to help women through the grieving process and avoid the cliches and taboos.

Code: CTDO Price: $14.00 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: $11.95

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Healing Moments A Collection of Inspiring Reflections After the Death of a Spouse by Mary J. Nowyj.

A Collection of over 30 moving reflections.

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 twenty-five 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. I felt comforted by that old belief, but I was never able to collect anywhere near what we had collected together.

Code: HEMC Price: $8.95 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 Two Chai Day One Widow’s Story about Living beyond Grief by Irene McGoldrick, MSW. Irene and Bob were living an ordinary life a few months later when a cancer diagnosis shook their world to its core. Through poignant anecdotes that detail the young family’s journey through Bob’s illness—one that takes them to both extreme and alternative measures—Irene weaves an unforgettable narrative inspired by Bob’s journal entries and her own honest storytelling that is heartbreaking, and at times, comical. Eventually forced into widowhood at age thirty-six, Irene shares how she reluctantly embraced single parenthood and began her march through mourning, determined to embrace her grief with intention.

Code: TCDO Price: $19.99 Inside the Broken Heart Grief Understanding for Widows and Widowers by Julie Yarborough. Grief is not a crisis of faith, it is a crisis of the heart.Uses topical references from the Bible to illuminate unfamiliar emotions and questions for the grieving spouse. A journey through “the valley of the shadow of death,” the book guides the way back to fullness of life for those grieving the death of a spouse.

We must grieve in order to live. In faith we accept the vast mysteries of both life and death when we survive the death of a spouse.

Code: IBHO Price: $14.99 Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one can greatly benefit from this book, which was inspired firsthand by the loss of author Allen Klein’s wife. Klein addresses the subject with expert awareness and wisdom and breaks it down into five sensible and encouraging steps: losing, learning, letting go, living, and laughing.

The book is a steadfast compass that offers hope and resilience to anyone trying to navigate through dark times.

Code: LLWO Price: $14.95

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Adult Grief Resources Professional/Support Group Resources 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

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 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 The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide-Starting and Leading a Bereavement Support Group by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. For bereavement caregivers who want to start and run an effective grief support group for adults, this new Support Group Guide discusses the role of support groups for mourners and describes the steps involved (such as deciding on group format, publicizing the group and writing meeting plans) in getting a group started. Responding to problems in the group is also addressed.

Code: USGO Price: $19.95 Bandages For Your Heart: DVD OVER 2 HOURS OF HEALTHFUL HEALING 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 & Postures.

Code: BFYO Price: $19.95 Your Personal Journey Through Grief A Guided Road Map Toward Learning and Healing by Helen Fitzgerald. This lovely guidebook is designed as a supportive, personal diary of the grief journey. It also can supplement the work of support groups or individual counseling. Included are helpful exercises for managing common grief reactions and creative tools to help regain emotional balance.

Code: YPJO Price: $11.00

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’.

Code: GWSO Price: $49.95 Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice by Kenneth J. Doka.

Addresses the unique psychological, biological, and sociological issues involved in disenfranchised grief.

Offers clinical interventions to help grievers express their hidden sorrow.

Code: DIGO Price: $29.95 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

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Fernside Idea Book (3-ring binder) A guidebook for group facilitators. Over 180 structured activities, addressing the themes of: Beginnings & Endings, Telling Your Story, Feelings, Changes & Rebuilding, Family & Friends, Dreams & Nightmares,Special Days, Memories and Adults.

Code: FIBO Price: $65.00 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 Handbook of Bereavement Research Consequences, Coping and Care. Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on three important themes in bereavement research: consequences, coping and care. The Handbook provides an up-to-date comprehensive review of scientific knowledge about bereavement in an authoritative yet accessible way that will be essential reading for researchers, practitioners, and health care professionals in the 21st century.

Code: HBRO Price: $49.95 Grief in the Workplace

By Racheal Blythe Kodanaz. A powerful and dynamic program that gives employers and co-workers deeper insights into the grief process. The training focuses on educating employees on grief and how to support those who are grieving in the workplace.

Code: GIWO Price: $40.00

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Adult Grief Resources Helping Others 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 Blessed Are They That Mourn. . .

An observation about what hurts and what heals. Nan Zastrow wrote this book after her own journey through grief. Talks about comforting, the funeral, after the funeral, and the time of transition. If you are a griever, you will find your experiences may be similar to others who are grieving.

Code: BTMO Price: $8.95 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 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 Healing A Friend’s Grieving Heart 100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss by Alan Wolfelt. Offers 100 fresh ideas for supporting a grieving friend or family member.

Turn to any page and seize the day by helping your friend today.

Code: HYCO Price: $11.95 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 The Power of Presence Helping People Help People by Doug Manning.

Doug brings his unique discussions about the power of listening, how to be available to people on various life journeys, and how to “get into people’s buckets” to create this book and training guide. Each chapter has opportunities for learning by writing responses to the scenarios presented.

Also included is a trainer’s discussion guide so the book can be utilized in professional or lay team training.

Code: POPO Price: $10.95

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 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 To Touch A Grieving Heart DVD 40 min. Healing ways to help ourselves and others walk the journey of grief. Kathleen Braza, grief counselor, hosts this comprehensive video on helping people during grief. Goes into detail on what grief is, what to expect, talking, sharing, remembering and ideas for healing.

ode: TDVO Price: $29.95 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. They explore the key characteristics of those who counsel and teach and examine aspects of the helping process, focusing on living life well, knowing and being oneself, relating to others and working to make change possible.This book will be essential reading for students on professional training programss in youth work, community education, ministry, social care and counselling.

Code: AHOO Price: $29.95

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Come, Walk With Me A Book for Chaplains and Others Caring for the Dying

by Virginia Swaggard. A Note From The Author: “The book you are about to read is compiled from personal experiences during my twenty-five years of hands-on hospice care in the mainly rural areas of South Carolina. The stories are from people of a Christian back-ground. It is written from that perspective with actual situations. Only the names of those in the stories are changed to protect their privacy with the exception of Pope John Paul II.” Code: CWWG Price: $10.00 Saying Goodbye To Someone You Love

By Norine Dresser and Fredda Wasserman. Consists of moving narratives about end of life and grief.

These personal histories are complemented by practical guidelines for those caring for their loved ones through the last stages of life. For those who are grieving, the true-to-life-stories demonstrate how others have navigated through the tidal wave of emotions and reactions that characterize the grief process. For health care professionals and those who are offering support to grievers, this book provides a new perspective on the challenges of caring for the dying and living with grief.

Code: SGLO Price: $16.95

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Illness and Death & Dying

Where Souls Meet Communicating With The Terminally Ill by Dillon Woods. Dillon spent many years in a Franciscan Monestary. This book is written in short, to-the-point sections. This book will guide you through the many practical, spiritual and difficult issues that arise at the end of life. It is thoughtful, organized, and a concise guide.

Code: WSMO Price: $12.95 Where Souls Meet Quick Guides: Important points layed out for easy reading, reminders and reflections. Includes doctors list, drug list, personal contacts and card received lists for your records.

Code: WSQO Price: FREE with order 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

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

Caregiving: Hospice Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul by Doug Smith. Easy to follow techniques and practical tools for improving care: assessment techniques, dialogues, meditations, life reviews, breathing exercises, body revitalization methods, ways patients can evaluate and improve their own care, and many others. Filled with inspirational stories and effective guidance.

Code: CHOO Price: $14.95 Lighting the Path Through the Final Days of Life by Deborah Sigrist, BSN, RN, CHPN, author of Journey’s End. Debbie shares her knowledge and wisdom about this time of transition acquired over a period of 19 years as a hospice nurse. Here you will find guidance explaining signs and symptoms individuals face along the way in the dying process.

Code: LTPO Price: $5.00 A Tiny Boat at Sea How to help children who have a parent diagnosed with cancer by Izetta Smith, M.A. Talks about telling the truth, explaining cancer, how to discuss cancer and the possibility of dying, showing feelings, school, and developmental stages for children facing the illness of a family member.

Code: TBSO Price: $7.95 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 The African American Spiritual and Ethical Guide to End of Life Care - What Y’all Gon’ Do With Me? is an excellent resource to help your organization or group get the word out to African-American communities about end-of-life care and planning! The Guide is userfriendly and culturally sensitive.

Code: AASO Price: $4.95 Dying is…

A short book about the dying process, designed to be educational – to offer useful information and suggestions as well as a place to record thoughts, questions, and responses as you and your loved one journey through the time of preparing for death and includes 3 sections (emotional & spiritual issues; physical changes; and caregiver & grief information)

Code: DYIO Price: $4.00

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

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T-Shirt Memories Are Forever Cotton T-shirt with the quote “Memories Are Forever”. Size: S, M, L, XL, XXL. Women and Men styles available. V-neck or scoop.

Code: MAFC Price: $18.00

Adult Grief Resources Sudden Unexpected Loss/Homicide

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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 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 on 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

Adult Sibling Loss

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: SASO Price: $14.97

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 Spraugue. 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: $9.95 Mourning Bands are a wonderful expression of grief for the newly bereaved. 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.

Code: INMO Price: $2.00

Young Adult Grief

Developmental Disabilities

Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn–Practical Rituals for Caregivers by Marc Markell, Ph.D. Foreword by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. This book explains the how-to’s of creating rituals for people with developmental disabilities, including the use of pictures, memory objects, drawing, and music.

Code: HPDO Price: 13.95

Grieving the Death of a Friend 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: 13.99

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 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

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Suicide, also see page 11.

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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

We are pleased to announce that Centering Corporation is the TCF recommended source for books.

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.

Code: WSLC Price: $4.99

A Message of Hope For Surviving the Tragedy of Suicide by Pat Overley.

Pat’s son shot himself. Pat takes you with her on her journey, giving guidelines to help others. Chapters cover the First Days, the Funeral, the First Year, Christmas, Caring People, Lessons and Spirituality.

This is a tremendous book for family and friends.

Code: MEHO Price: $12.95

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

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: $3.50

The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings.

The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive. Please let us know if you are a TCF member.

www.compassionatefriends.org

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: $3.00 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: $3.00

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 Lost No More by Marilyn Burns, M.S.,L.P.CC is dedicated to the lost souls who struggle daily to find a way to a life free of drugs and alcohol. It is a story about how a spiritual belief system can strengthen a parents ability to survive the death of a child. To embrace the belief that life is full of challenges because it is balanced will offer hope to the reader whose life has been impacted by addiction.

Code: LNMO Price: $14.95

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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 LinnGust, 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 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

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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 Andy’s Mountain Fathers Grieve Too - A journey through grief by Dwight L. Patton. Contains Dwight’s observations and conclusions about grief from the death of a child. He describes techniques for working through grief that may be helpful to another bereaved father who cannot bring himself to share his emotions with another person.

Code: ANMO Price: $8.95 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 Remembering: The Death of a Child

By Robert Thompson, M.D. If you, or someone you know, has experienced the death of a child, this book can help you: Find where to turn for help, support someone who has lost a child, accommodate to the death of a child and keep on living, and find peace and comfort without forgettting.

Code: RDCO Price: $12.95 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 Roses In December

by Marilyn Willett Heavilin. With deep empathy, Marilyn helps those who are grieving find God’s comfort. Having lost three sons, she knows the tremendous sorrows and struggles that come with the death of loved ones. Yet she shares how even in the winters of our lives God provides roses—special occasions, special people, and special memories—to give us strength and draw close to Him. Code: RIDO Price: $11.99 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 Parting Is Not Goodbye. . .Coping with Grief in Creative, Healthy Ways by Kelly Osmont. Explores the real life issues of dying and death in an open manner. The story of a mother’s struggle after the death of her only child in a tragic accident.

Code: PINO Price: $5.00 Real Men Do Cry 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 and is a must-have resource for mental health counselors nationwide.

Code: RMDO Price: $12.95 Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories of Healing After Loss. Losing a loved one can be an intensely isolating experience. At times you may feel as if you are the only person who has ever known such anguish.

Compiled in this book are entries written by more than one hundred contributors. Whenever you run out of hope and can’t find the light to guide you, we invite you to lean on our hope until you find your own.

Code: OTHO Price: $12.95 Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories of Handling the Holidays After Loss. Getting through the hectic holiday season can be especially tough when you’re grieving the loss of someone you love. You may even be missing more than one cherished person--a parent, spouse, child, sibling or friend--at your Thanksgiving table this year. You’ll find practical advice and encouragement from these heartfelt stories and articles contributed writers at the Open to Hope Foundation.

Code: OHHO Price: $12.95

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Death of a Child Beyond Tears Living after Losing a Child. 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.

Code: BYTO Price: $13.95 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: $13.00 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: $12.95

Letters To My Son

By Mitch Carmody. Authored by a grieiving 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 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 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. In the conversations at those meetings, you heard the many problems discussed that are associated with the loss of a child. 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: $11.95 When Bad Things Happen to Good People

By Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. When Harold’s threeyear-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: $11.95

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: $16.99 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: $9.95

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

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

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: $6.95

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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: $3.50 Available in Spanish: Los Niños Murien Tambien

Code: CDSC Price: $3.50 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 Candle in the Window Songs of Remembrance by Judy Philbin. Music offers solace and healing in a very powerful way, particularly following the death of a loved one. This beautiful collection touches the heart and takes the listener deep inside to places that may not otherwise be accessible. Presented at the TCF conference 2011.

Code: CIWO Price: $14.99 From a Grieving Mother’s Heart One Mother’s Journey Through the Loss of Her Child.

Terri Ann Leidich’s twenty-year-old son was suddenly killed in a vehicle accident, she was thrown into the roller coaster agony of grief. Adapted from the journal she kept through the experience of her horrendous loss, this book is a roadmap for parents who have lost children, as well as for those who are on the sidelines, watching the agony of someone they care about and not knowing what to do or how to help.

Code: FGMO Price: $13.95

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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 Hannah’s Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived by Maria Housden. A heartbreaking and heartwarming account of her three-year-old daughter’s illness and death. When Hannah’s seven-year-old brother asks the author questions about death. Housden, too, offers readers a gift, particularly those seeking to help a loved one through the process of dying and themselves through the grieving process.

Code: HAGO Price: $14.00 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

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 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 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 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

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Sugar Cookies and a Nightmare How my Daughter’s Death Taught me the Meaning of Life. The death of a child is perhaps the most difficult separation we face, and reconstructing a life in the wake of this loss can feel overwhelming. The journey through grief can take many different roads, and we must each find our own way. The intensity of the experience may be different, but the pain of separation is universal. This book is about encountering and dealing with loss, and rebuilding an enriching life.

Code: SCNO Price: $14.95 Space Between Breaths DVD What Loss Can Teach Us About A Life Fully Lived by Rosemary Smith. A powerful, uplifting film, which looks at the potential in grief and how it can become motivational, transformational force in our lives.

Featuring conversations with parents who have lost a child. 115 minutes long.

Code: SBTO Price: $20.00 Only Spring Gordon Livingston introduces this brutally honest diary as the story of the life and death of his son. It is that, focusing on Livingston’s experience of losing his sixyear-old son, Lucas, to leukemia; it is also an account of a process of mourning permeated by his gradual realization that “love is not lost even in death.” A gift from the author, this book is Free for bereaved parents.

Code: OLSO

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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

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: $3.50 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: $24.95

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 Comfort A Journey Through Grief by Anne Hood. A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again. In 2002, Ann’s five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat.

Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none seemed possible.

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: $14.95 Mending the Broken Heart: After Your Child Dies CD is a newly released audio book created to gently guide parents through the long and painful journey following a child’s death, regardless of the child’s age. By licensed professional counselor Beryl Kaminsky, this audio book includes 5 tracks that lead bereaved parents through the essential steps of managing grief.

Code: MBHO Price: $15.00 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. The release of her pain and anguish provided through this amazing outpouring helped facilitate her healing, and is offered here to help others heal.

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: $4.95

After Death Communication 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 Dreaming Kevin A true story of a bereaved mother’s journey to the dream time in search of her son. Join author Carla Blowey in her quest to interpret an ominous dream that predicted the death of her five-year-old son, Kevin, just hours before he died in a bicycle accident. It is this nightmare that heralds the many numinous dreams and synchronistic events that offer her forgiveness, healing, spiritual growth and new life.

Code: DRKO Price: $16.95

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Swan in Heaven

By Terri Daniel. There are eager teachers in other realms waiting with infinite patience for us to tune in and start listening. One such teacher is Danny Mandell, who died at age 16 after struggling with a degenerative disorder. He was completely non-verbal during the last years of his life, but within an hour after his death, he began “speaking” to his mother, guiding her to publish his words in a book that would have a unique perspective.

Code: SIHO Price: $15.95

Sympathy Cards

Outside: Our thoughts are with you at this time Inside: Your precious child will live forever in your heart

Code: 4ILC Price: $1.50

Outside: Love Never Ends Inside: There are no comforting words to say. Only know that I will be there to comfort you especially when you need a shoulder to lean on. Your child will be missed and loved always. Things seem to be cloudy, but as time goes on they will get clearer. Your child left you with wonderful memories that will always put a smile on your face. You will have joy and peace in your life one day.

Code: LNEO Price: $2.25

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Infant Loss Resources Infant Loss Resources

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

Section Three: Infant Loss Resources

Miscarriage and Newborn Death Page 21-22

Memory Books Page 23

Healing A Father’s Grief Page 23

Small Handouts Page 23 T-Shirt Page 23

Burial Gown Page 23

Comfee Doll Page 23

Grieving Grandparents Page 24

Sibling Grief Page 24 Caregivers Page 25

Funeral Planning Page 25

Difficult Decisions Page 25

NICU Infants Page 26

c 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: $3.00 Spanish Version: Aborto Espontáneo Code: MALC Price: $3.00

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: $3.50

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: $3.00

Spanish Version: Cuando Hola Significa Adios Code: CHSO Price: $3.50

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: $3.00 Spanish Version: Una Memoria Demasiado Temprana Code: TSSO Price: $3.50 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

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 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 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: $2.05

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

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. There are poems and stories from other families who have experienced the death of their baby.

Code: SSGO Price: $16.95 Available in Spanish: Cómo aceptar la muerte súbita e inesperada de un niño Code: SISO Price: $16.95 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

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Infant Loss Resources Single Parent Grief 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 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

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 Journaling Away Mommy’s Grief is the only interactive, self-help book on stillbirth/infant loss that takes the reader from the first day of profound loss through ten years of living, grieving and healing. Robin Lentz Worgan uses her original journal entries written after losing her daughter, Margaret, to describe her experience of coping with loss in layman’s terms for mothers and their families.

Code: JAMG Price: $14.95

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

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

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

Waiting with Gabriel by Amy Kuebelbeck. A story of cherishing a baby’s brief life. Told in Kuebelbeck’s intimate, artful prose, this story is not simply one of personal tragedy–it is a story of deep parental love, supportive family and friends, and of cherishing life.

It will touch the hearts of all who read it.

Code: WGGO Price: $13.95

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: $14.25 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 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: $3.50 Available in Spanish: Ese Momentito

Code: TLSC Price: $3.50

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

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 Now I Sleep by John Albert Thomas. Solo Piano music in honor and memory of families who experience infant loss. The gentle soothing music let’s us take a moment to relax and meditate and remember our loved ones.

Code: NISO Price: $15.00

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Infant Loss Resources Memory Books

Small Handouts

Little Footprints A Special Baby’s Memory Book.

By Dorothy Ferguson. For parents of stillborn infants or those who die shortly after birth.

Features a journal for feelings, memorable dates, pictures, place for momentos, last moments, and your story: the day you were born. 24 pages that includes gentle poems.

Code: LIFC Price: $6.00 Available in Spanish: Sus Pequeñas Huellas Code: LISC Price: $6.00

Vignette – a small writing and a powerful handout.

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 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

Fathers Grieve, Too After their child or baby dies. Gives permission to feel and cry.

Code: FGTC Price: 75¢ Spanish Version: Los Padres Tambien Sufren Code: FGSC

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¢

I Will Hold You In My Heart Forever A baby book designed specifically for your angel baby. Comes in a custom binder filled with over 100 pages.CHAPTERS INCLUDE: In The Beginning, Pregnancy Moments, Family Tree, Showers, The World Around You, Hello Little One, Your Illness, Hospital Stay, Taking Care of You, and more.

Code: IWHO Price: $39.95

Healing a Father’s Grief 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: $3.00 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: $3.00 Fathers Grieve, Too After their child or baby dies. Gives permission to feel and cry.

Code: FGTC Price: 75¢

www.griefdigestmagazine.com

Price: 75¢

T-Shirt & Comfee Doll, Burial Gowns Angel T-shirt: message: “Some People Only Dream of Angels.

I Held One In My Arms.”

Size M, L, XL, XXL Specify size when ordering.

Code: ANSO Price: $15.00

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: $12.00 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.

Code: BGLO LARGE (32-34 Weeks)

MEDIUM (27-32 Weeks) SMALL (23-26 Weeks) X-SMALL (16-22 Weeks)

Code: BGMO Code: BGSO Code: BGTO

All gowns with blanket are $12.95 each

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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 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

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: $8.00 Available in Spanish: El Cuento De Thumpy

Code: THSO Price: $8.00 Am I Still A Sister?

This book was written when Allie Sims was 11 and reflects the child-wise 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

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: $3.95 Spanish Edition: No Tenremos Un Nuevo Bebé Code: NNSC Price: $3.95 Original Version of No New Baby Code: OVNC Price: $3.50 My Always Sister Coloring Book For very young children. Callie the bunny talks about finding out his new baby sister was sick, so sick that she had to stay in the hospital. One day his Daddy told him that his 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: $2.05 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

Bereaved Grandparents 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: $3.50 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 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.

Code: FBGC Price: $4.95

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Infant Loss Resources Pregnancy has Problems

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: $3.25C

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: $6.95 Giving Care – Taking Care Support for the Helpers. Sherokee Ilse lets us find out if we’re rescuers or helpers, tells us it’s okay to cry, and packs this little book with information, including a selfcare evaluation. Read it page-by-page on coffee breaks to keep constantly reminded that you can only care for others if you care for yourself.

Code: GCTO Price: $10.50 How Can I Help?

Suggestions for People Who Care About Someone Whose Baby Died Before Birth by Martha Wegner-Hay. This simple booklet offers practical help for the caregiver or anyone else who would like to be helpful. Don’t worry about whether the parents are openly grieving to show support. It’s OK to say you’re sorry.

Code: HILO Price: $3.75 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: $3.50 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 Embracing Laura The grief and healing following the death of an infant twin by Martha Wegner-Hay. After finding out Martha was pregnant with twins, she found out one of the twins would not live. The family made a painful decision of selective reduction. Martha gives you her story and how they grieved the death of one twin while celebrating the life of the other. There are many occasions for affirming Laura’s life. I wrote birth announcements for both babies.

Code: EMLC Price: $3.75 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 together-healing apart, the days and weeks afterward, and the months and years that follow.

Code: ATTO Price: $9.95 More Than Surviving Caring for yourself while you grieve by Kelly Osmont.

This very helpful resource includes information about the grief process, how stress from grief affects us, motivators to caring for yourself, support=nourishment, touch and its healing effect, foods, supplements, quiet time, dreams, exercise, and a new beginning.

Code: MTSC Price: $4.95

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Newborn Intensive Care Infants teen miscarriage and adoption 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: $4.95 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 SALE Price: $5.47 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: $3.80

For Siblings

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: $1.50

Teen Pregnancy and Miscarriage

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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: $3.50 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: $3.50

1/2 off titles This Time It’s Me: For Pregnant Teens Code: TTIC Price: $1.97

Katie’s Premature Brother El Hermano Prematuro de Katie English and Spanish Edition by Elizabeth HawkinsWalsh 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

Plans: Using storybooks to explain death and grieving Code: PLAC Price: $4.47 A Forever Angel: Instructions on making angels Code: FOAC Price: $4.47 Babka’s Seranade: Death of a grandparent for children Code: BASC Price: $4.47 My NICU Baby Book Code: MNIC Price: $5.47 Giving Sorrow Words: After the death of a child.

Code: GSWO Price: $10.97 Lucy Lettuce: A story demonstrating death Code: LULC Price: $2.98

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Children’s Grief Resources Section Four: Children’s Grief Resources Creative & Healing Tools Page 27

Workbooks and Memory Books Page 28 Sibling Grief Page 28 Memory Bands Page 29 Pet Loss Page 29

Explaining Death and Grief Page 29-30 Illness Page 31-32 For Educators Page 32-33

Death of a Grandparent Page 34

Death of a Parent Page 35

Teen/Adolescent Grief Page 36 Suicide Page 37

Fear, Trauma and Homicide Page 37

Separation and Divorce Page 37

Creative & Healing Tools My Memory Bag This sturdy tote contains: 4A Teddy Bear 4A heart-shaped stress ball 4A yo-yo 4Book: Tell Me, Papa 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: $19.95 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, AfroAmerican 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: $17.50 Individual Feeling Heart Stones:

Code: IFHO

Price: $1.50 ea.

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 Sweet Memories

By Elaine Stillwell. This collection of ideas will help children make scrapbooks and do special craft projects to memorialize a special person. While this book is written for children, the format is more appropriate for an adult to read and to help a child complete the activities.

Code: SWMC Price: $4.95

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 Winning at Loss™ is a therapeutic and educational board game designed to help guide children through their grief. The game contains mostly open ended questions that encourage children to open up and share their feelings and beliefs and grief.

Code: WALO Price: $49.95 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 Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children

By Liana Lowenstein. A uniquely creative compilation of therapeutic games, art activities, and stories to help children express feelings of grief, address self-blame, commemorate the deceased, diffuse traumatic reminders, and develop coping skills. Ideal for counselors, therapists, school, and support groups.

Code: CIBO Price: $29.95

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 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

Memories Are Forever Stress Star Code: MFSC $3.95

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Children’s Grief Resources Sibling Grief, see page 24 also 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: BBFG Price: $9.95 Always My Brother 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. The illustrations in this picture book are emotionally provocative, yet beautiful and soothing.

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 Sibling Grief How parents can help the child whose brother or sister has died. Begins with age appropriate grief responses, the parent as role model, typical responses of siblings, suggestions of what is helpful and returning to school.

Code: SGRO Price: $3.50

Workbooks and Memory Books When Someone Very Special DiesChildren 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: $6.95 Memories Live Forever A Memory Book For Grieving Children. Written and illustrated by Sharon Rugg. Words and pictures are created by young children. It is made to help children remember someone they love who died.

Code: MLFO Price: $5.00 Available in Spanish: Los Recuerdos Viven Eternamente Code: MLSO Price: $5.00 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

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Children’s Grief Resources

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: $4.95 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

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Zach and His Dog A Story of Bonding, Love, and Loss, For Children and Adults to Share Together by David K. Meagher. Death is a painful concept for a young child to understand, and experiencing the death of a pet or loved one can leave a child feeling confused. Zach’s dog was hit by an oncoming car in a tragic accident. This book serves as a tool to assist the child in learning to deal with loss.

Ages 4-9.

Code: ZHDO Price: $15.00

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

Memory Bands 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

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

Expaining

Grief and Loss

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

The Complete Book About Death for Kids

by Earl Grollman and Joy Johnson. The first part includes information about death, dying and the feelings you have when someone you love dies.

The second section includes information about burial and cremation. The third section talks about the funeral and cemetery. Beautiful photos show the child what they will really see and answers the most commonly asked questions.

Code: CAKC Price: $7.95 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 Available in Spanish: Diciendo Adios Code: SYGO Price: $3.95 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: $8.95 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: $9.95 Waterbugs and Dragonflies A tender tale of death and new life, this minibook 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

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Children’s Grief Resources

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 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 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 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 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

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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

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 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: $14.99 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 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: $8.95 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: $13.99 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. 32 pages. Paperback.

Code: GLSO Price: 9.95

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Grief Is Like a Snowflake Activity Book Use as a supplementary teacher’s guide with the storybook. Full of discussion questions and exercises to share with students.

Code: GSAO Price: $9.95

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Children’s Grief Resources Illness: For Children and Family Oncology, Stupology. . . I want to go home! is a delightful picture book written by Marilyn Hershey and illustrated by Jill Boris for children with cancer.

The character, after learning he has cancer, would rather go home. But in the meantime he discovers the playroom and makes new friends.

Code: OSOO Price: $10.95 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 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: $1.25 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

The Purple Balloon

By Chris Raschka. From Caldecott Award winner Chris Raschka—and in conjunction with Children’s Hospice International—comes a gentle, reassuring storybook for young children who know a seriously ill children and the people who love them. Hardcover.

Code: TPBO Price: $16.99 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.

Code: SMGO Price: $16.00

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. You will find suggestions from children and teens about what was helpful and unhelpful about the funeral or memorial service they attended.

Code: WAKO Price: $9.95 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: $8.95 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 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

I Wonder What You Do on Your First Day in Heaven by Phoebe Welsh. I Wonder What You Do on Your First Day in Heaven is a thoughtfully written and illustrated book that offers consolation and hope to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one. It is a story about birth and celebration, death and grief, wonder and hope. Hardcover.

Code: IWWO Price: $16.95

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Children’s Grief Resources Illness: For Children and Family, cont. . .

Gifts of Life for Teen 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 Someone I Love is Sick Helping Very Young Children Cope with Cancer in the Family is a customizable book to use when talking with children ages 2-6 years old when a parent or grandparent has cancer. Pages can be selected to address the family’s specific situation including diagnosis, treatment, hospitalization, recurrence and, if need be, end of life. The pages are loose-leaf, pre-printed pages of the many realities of cancer in the family.

Code: SLSO Price: $21.95 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.

Code: JODO Price: $14.95 The Life of Bud

by Laura W. Eckroat. The story follows Bud, who starts out in life as a tiny bud—he feels insignificant.

But Bud grows into a beautiful, vibrant leaf on the Mighty Oak Tree and becomes a very important part of the tree. Those who have looked for a children’s book that explains gently about the topic of life and death, look no further. Explains to children and reminds adults that death is an important part of life.

Code: LOBO Price: $8.99 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 and the world.

Code: MBPO Price: $16.00 Kids Can Cope An Activity Book From Children for Children who are Living 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 more about themselves and the strength they do have to cope with change.

Code: KCCC Price: $9.95

For Educators

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 Class In Room 44 By Lynn Bennett Blackburn.

Parent Council Review: This is one of the few books I have seen that was specifically written for students whose classmate died. The story describes the reactions of children when their friend is killed in a car accident. A perfect resource for teachers or counselors who are helping youngsters deal with this issue.

Code: CRFC Price: $6.95 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 When Grief Enters Your School This book was written specifically to address the situations and challenges that school personnel face after a death in their school. It also addresses the valuable opportunities that schools have to educate students and their parents about the nature of grief and the importance of grieving.

Code: WGEO Price: 15.00

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Children’s Grief Resources For Caregivers, Parents and Professionals 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: $3.95 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 The Grieving Child A Parent’s Guide by Helen Fitzgerald. Offers practical, compassionate advice for helping children cope with death. Includes visiting the seriously ill child, using age appropriate language, selecting useful books, handling difficult situations such as murder or suicide, and deciding whether a child should attend a funeral.

Code: GRCO Price: $14.00 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: $6.95

Understanding and Supporting a Child or Teen Coping with a Death–A Guide for Parents and Caregivers by Jane Bradley Cameron.

This guide offers a comprehensive and straightforward overview of the unique journey of grief that children take. The author explains why it is important for children and teens to grieve, ways in which it is easy to misinterpret them, and how grief is experienced and expressed at different developmental stages.

Code: USCO Price: $10.00 Spanish Version: Cómo comprehender y apoyar a un nino o adolescente enfrenatando a una muerte Code: USSO Price: $10.00 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child The Dougy Center. This guidebook presents simple and practical suggestions drawn from the experiences of thousands of grieving children and teens about what helps and what doesn’t. 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 How Do We Tell the Children?

A Step-by-Step Guide for Helping Children Two To Teen Cope When Someone Dies by Dan Schaffer. This updated guide has been expanded to feature new material to help adults as well as children cope with the impact of traumatic events. Responds to children’s frequently asked questions with helpful answers.

Code: HDWO Price: $14.95 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: $14.95 The Journey Through Grief and Loss Helping Yourself and Your Child When Grief is Shared. This is the first book to address this very common dual grieving challenge. As a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-nine years, Robert Zucker can offer parents and other concerned readers important insights into managing their own grief while supporting their grieving children. Reassures you that you can be an effective parent while grieving yourself.

Code: TJTO Price: $14.99

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Children’s Grief Resources

Death of a Grandparent 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

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 The Memory Box

By Kirsten McLaughlin. Ages 4-9. A young child shares his feelings after Grandpa dies. He talks about all the things he will miss doing with Grandpa. The child decides to make a memory box out of Grandpa’s tackle box. He fills it with special items and all the memories of his Grandpa.

Code: MEBC Price: $4.95

Grandfather Hurant Lives Forever

By Susanna Pitzer. Grigor was very close to his grandfather. They spent a lot of time making rugs together. Grigor was worried about his grandfather when he went to the hospital.

And, the next morning they called and said Grandfather Hurant had died. Grigor had a lot of different feelings. After some time, he begins to smile when he thinks of Grandfather and finishes the rug they started together.

Code: GFHC

Price: $9.95 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 Animal Crackers

By Bridgett Marshall. A gentle, sad story about a loving, playful grandmother who hides treats for her grandchildren. The day comes when she must move from her house to a nursing home; she is no longer able to play with nor provide treats for her grandchildren. She then gives out boxes of animal crackers (a favorite hidden treat) to remember and say a special goodbye. For very young children.

Code: ANCC Price: $4.95

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 The Complete Book About Death for Kids

by Earl Grollman and Joy Johnson. The first part includes information about death, dying and the feelings you have when someone you love dies.

The second section includes information about burial and cremation. The third section talks about the funeral and cemetery. Beautiful photos show the child what they will really see and answers the most commonly asked questions.

Code: CAKC Price: $7.95 Goodbye Gram 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 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. Though each batch he makes is bigger and better than the last, Grandpa hardly gets a taste of it. 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: $8.99 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.

Most are simple. Checkers and hot chocolate.

Hugs and silly songs. A special wink that means we re in this together. 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.

Code: UWMO Price: $24.95

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Children’s Grief Resources Death of a Parent

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

Code: MMDC

Price: $6.95

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Price: $5.95

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 SALE Price: $4.95

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 SALE Price: $4.95 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

The Brightest Star

By Kathleen Hemery. A little girl, grieving the death of her mother, finds comfort in looking for the brightest star in the sky to remind her of her mother’s love. Beautiful, soft illustrations, reassuring text, and the depiction of real feelings make this book truly special for children who grieve.

Code: BRSC Price: $6.95

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 Everett Anderson’s Goodbye

By Lucille Clifton. Everett promises to be good if Daddy could come back alive. I knew my daddy loved me through and through, and whatever happens when people die, love doesn’t stop, and neither will I.

Code: EAGO Price: $7.95 A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of a Loved One by Phyllis Silverman and Madelyn Kelly.This book explores children’s thoughts and feelings on the subject of death and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue. This guide offers useful advice for parents and carers and will also be of interest to counsellors and other professionals working with children.

Code: PGRO Price: $16.95

Children: Fear and Trauma 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 Stately Queens & Shining Knights A book for parents and caregivers helping children experiencing fear by Joy 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 dragon breathing technique.

Code: SQSC Price: $3.95 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.

Code: SCWO Price: $5.95

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Children’s Grief Resources Teen/Adolescent Grief

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

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: $16.00 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 teen-friendly 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

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

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

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: $9.95

A Teen’s View of Grief DVD by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. A 40 minute DVD on teen grief that contains in-depth information and compassionate advice. Throughout, Dr. Wolfelt’s teachings are interspersed with comments from actual bereaved teens.

Code: TVGO Price: $29.95 Helping Teens Cope with Death (21 minutes) is a window into the lives of six grieving teens who attended peer support groups at The Dougy Center. The DVD and 12-page companion guide provide insight to the thoughts, feelings, and changes that teens often experience. The DVD and guide are a resource for training purposes, or for general viewing by teens, parents, therapists, counselors, and others.

Code: HTVO Price: $49.95 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

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Children’s Grief Resources Suicide Prevention and Suicide 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

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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 on accident or purpose. If you feel no one will listen to you, prove yourself wrong.

Code: HUYC Price: $3.50 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. She determined she had enough information on the topics that came between her and her son, that she wanted to share it other parents in hopes of preventing more suicides.

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 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 After a Suicide A workbook for grieving kids by the Dougy Center.

Works through issues of finding out about the suicide, feelings, dreams and nightmares, questions kids have about suicide, talking with friends, going back to school, ways to honor and remember the person who died.

Code: ASWO Price: $12.95 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

Homicide 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 Counselors Edition Plus a copy of English and Spanish workbook for children: Code: SSCO Price: $29.95 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

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

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The “D” Word By Julia Cook(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 can’t 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

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

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