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We are at a threshold. As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times together From the bestselling author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, a beautifully packaged collection of 17 essays on...

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When people hear the word acceptance, they might assume that it means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things currently are. In fact, there is a difference between acceptance and 'feeling good' about what happened—acceptance means allowing yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality of the pain, even though in an ideal world, it shouldn't be that way.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.

Whether you are a family member searching for answers, a caregiver looking for recommendations, or a friend just trying to understand, you will receive invaluable tools and guidance to support your loved one through the last days of their life.

Dealing with loss is one of our most difficult challenges. The loss of possessions, social status, a loved one, or even the imminent loss of your own life can be difficult to deal with. Until we change our self image and our image of the world, our emotions and ego defense mechanisms can burden us and prevent us from what we really need to do.

Fears of aging and death can destroy one's love of life. Ram Dass provides an uplifting alternative attitude in this eye-opening learning session. Listen as the internationally acclaimed author and teacher probes both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, offering profound wisdom tempered with reality.

No one can take away your pain - but there is something you can do to grow from it. Each time someone passes away, they leave behind an average of five grieving people. Grief will affect every single one of us at some point in our lives. It’s an inevitable and natural fact of life, yet it is one of the hardest things we will ever go through. Grief can be debilitating. It takes us unaware, and it can be so raw and painful that we become unable to function, much less move forward and process our feelings.

The Grief Garden Path is easy to understand, with plenty of practical advice, which you can dip into whenever you have time. Chapters include information about the ‘grief path’, and outlining the types of grief you might experience. You’ll find simple exercises you can follow to help you going forward, with tips to help you feel better, even on your worst days. And you’ll be able to share personal stories from people who have experienced the loss of people very close to them, including their own tips on how to cope with grief.

Forever change the way you change... Who hasn’t struggled with change? Whether in our personal lives, at work, or in relation to global change, we’ve all known its related dread, confusion, and loss. In today's rapidly changing environment, we all can get better at facing change. Instead of approaching change from whether we like it or want it, Thresholds of Change suggests looking for what change wants from us. Like the seasons, change is a distinct process with its own phases and sequence.

Hope for Widows is a valuable source of encouragement and comfort as you adjust to your new normal and reimagine an active life with purpose in your future. With personal reflections, questions, and expressions of gratitude, join Marilyn Nutter in recognizing God's faithful presence in details and unusual places. Having lost her husband of forty-two years, Marilyn offers sixty-five brief readings that cover widows' universal experiences with empathy and poignant honesty.

Whether you are living through significant personal transitions or navigating a world reshaping itself faster than ever, this audiobook offers ten skills for living on the threshold as well as spiritual practices and inspiration for connecting with your own inner wisdom. From the first chapter, you’ll find a storytelling companion ready to journey with you through uncertainty and change. Hering does not pretend that change is simple. But she offers reassurance that it becomes easier to trust the more we participate in it.

This audiobook is about those big life changes. You’ll hear stories about motherhood and how deeply becoming a parent changes you as a person. You’ll hear about life circumstances involving grief and loss and the importance of keeping hope alive throughout these very difficult times. Finally, you'll hear stories about healing and how to stay positive and resilient when you’re experiencing a hard life situation.

Heralded as “a book that can strengthen the spirit of its listener and transform or even save lives,” Move Forward Stronger is like a friend when we’re in need, the therapist we’re hesitant to call, and the inner voice we’ve been listening for ... telling us: “You can feel happiness again.” Something happened. The death of someone you love. A suicide, divorce, or loss of a close relationship, job, career, or business. A negative change in your financial picture. A medical diagnosis or tragic accident. A physical or emotional injury. It happened. Now what?

This book is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music to heal and inspire. It invites listeners to join the author on a journey through Dallin's life and to be inspired by his love for music and his unwavering spirit. "The Boy Who Became More Than We Could Imagine; How Music brought rhythm and joy into a lifetime of illness, disability and constant change for an unstoppable human." is a book that will touch the hearts of listeners and remind them of the importance of cherishing every moment.

Why Birds Sing at Dawn speaks to the heart and mind during times of loss, change, and death. Julie Hightman shares her personal journey as a witness, caregiver, empathic translator, and ceremonial leader over a period of nine years filled with many waves of death and life change. Within this book, one discovers and refines contemplation on the alchemical power that death and change summon from the core of self-perception while inviting the listener to cultivate and honor transformation as a continual process throughout life.

Do you find yourself in a place of unplanned transition, where life is no longer as it was before? Do you feel this change is too much to handle? Discover the view up ahead, although different, it can offer a life of purpose and new beginnings. Uncover the faith it takes to face the hardest trials. Sit by someone who has buried a husband and a son, has battled cancer, and now finds herself in an empty nest. Life has a way of molding us. Hello Nobody, is a powerful journey from a place of standing at the door alone, to the discovery of what to do when everything changes.

Finding a way forward when loss unravels your world. If you or someone you care about has experienced a devastating loss, you may be wondering how anyone could survive such debilitating grief. How do you find a way forward through that kind of darkness? Living in the light again probably seems impossible.

Wake-Up Call is a moving, inspirational voyage inside the shattered life and broken heart of a mother who tragically and unexpectedly loses her teenage son in a one-car accident. In ways unexpected, practical, and real, Cherie gives anyone who has ever experienced the devastating loss of a loved one, real-life, hard-core, often tough spoken but love-laden and extremely practical advice on how to turn life's most tragic blows into triumph by trusting in God and his word.

Bitter. Broken. Angry. Empty. That about sums it up! My heart was snatched from me without remorse and life as I know it no longer exists. No one understood the pain. Friends and family who wished me the best only made things worst by saying all the right things at the wrong times. I was alone, abandoned even by God, and no one could comfort my dying soul. Reliving my son's last moments every time my loss was mentioned became my reoccurring trauma. Nothing prepared me for this. I realized the only way past the grief was through it, and that’s what pushed me to the pen.