Bereavement
Thousands encounter the experience of bereavement every day. We may have had the opportunity to prepare for the death of someone but we cannot fully anticipate how we will grieve. We face changes and experience feelings we may not have known before. Understanding what is happening to us and to those around us can be crucial for our coping and recovery.
These books offer help with that understanding, providing support, explanation and comfort for all who are bereaved and for those who care for them.
Grace Sheppard
A profound insight to the greatest test we all face: to be beside someonewe love - a parent, a partner, a child – as they slip away from us. Grace Sheppard draws on the experience of caring for her dying
husband, David Sheppard, England cricket captain and later Bishop of Liverpool. She looks at what drives us to run away from the difficult times and emotions. The key to Living with Dying is friendship.
Whether you are someone with little or no faith, Living with Dying will help you see that looking for God in an expectant sense, and developing an intimate relationship with him makes a positive difference to the supply of energy and hope in caring.
Price: £12.95 Pages: 160 ISBN: 9780232527834
Few areas of life remain unaffected by the death of a partner. While we can share some aspects of our pain with others, and thus receive the help and comfort we need to carry on, the sexual dimension of bereavement is one which is shrouded in secrecy. Using her extensive experience as a Cruse counselor, Susan Wallbank breaks the conspiracy of silence, and addresses with sensitivity the vast repercussions of losing a sexual partner. Both the practical and the emotional difficulties are explored in dept, as Susan Wallbank deals with those problems which may affect anyone, regardless of age or circumstance – such as the loss of status and security, loneliness, depression and grief – and also the special problems of specific groups. There are sections for the young, the middle-aged, the old, those who have been living together but are not married and partners of the same sex – all of whom suffer their own particular set of problems. The Empty Bed is not only about coping in the short term – it deals also with the problems of finding a new sense of identity, forming new, intimate relationships and dealing with our family’s and friend’s reactions as we make a new life for ourselves. It is a hopeful, encouraging book which will help everyone who has lost a partner to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to survive and face the future.
Classic anthology of prose and poetry for the bereaved.
Published in association with Cruse Bereavement Care
A sensitive account of the stages of grief showing that while there is no way round it, there is a way through.
Published in association with Cruse Bereavement Care
