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Dealing with chronic illness can be an isolating and challenging experience. Whether it’s you or someone you love, it’s common to struggle with feelings of fear, sadness, or anger as you navigate the uncertainty of your experience. The practices here help those facing illness, as well as their loved ones, embrace the present moment, make peace with themselves, and deepen interpersonal connections.

Dave Myers lived his life with joy. He always told his wife Lili that, if you were going to do something, you should do it full-heartedly. With that in mind, Lili gives her whole self to writing a celebration of his life and their love, full of the warmth and joy that Dave and The Hairy Bikers brought to their fans throughout their career spanning two decades. Lili invites readers into her world, sharing her personal story and professional insights as a grief coach, offering a unique perspective on the complexities of loss and the healing process.

A feather found during a walk outside… Maple leaves blowing in the breeze… A particular book sticking out from the shelf… These are all signs from the other side—but are you prepared to receive them? With the expert wisdom of trusted psychic medium and Angel Numbers author Mystic Michaela, you will be. The Book of Signs is an enlightening guide to communicating with the other side. You will find detailed descriptions of 150 common signs from beyond and expert advice on how to interpret these insightful messages.

The Magic in the Tragic powerfully explores how the hardest things in life intersect purpose and meaning, splendor and connectedness. When you embrace the magic in your tragic seasons, you can step into the future with hope, knowing that even when grief comes, it comes with an invitation to new life.

Death is one thing we cannot control. We will all face the death of a loved one. And many, if not most, people in our culture will be hesitant and unprepared to say goodbye. The Good Goodbye is meant to help those who must say goodbye to a loved one who is dying. In it, listeners will discover how culture affects final conversations, and that often the last interactions may not consist of words but gestures and expressions.

Kadian Journal is a document of startling bravery and candour—a description of a family dislocated and united by tragedy, and a beautiful and moving tribute to a son.

For Julia Engelhorn life divides into the Before and After. There was a time Before, when her life was filled with the joys and struggles of parenthood, when she was run off her feet trying to take care of a seven year old and three year old twins Octavia and Maximo. And then there was a time After, when her world was encased in darkness, when there was only one child left and she had become a member of a club that no one wants to join.

In Sacred Lessons: Teaching My Father How to Love, Mike de la Rocha explores how inherited definitions of manhood profoundly impacted his ability to connect with his father, his family, and ultimately himself, inviting listeners on a transformative journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and love. Sacred Lessons is a deeply moving and inspiring memoir for those seeking self-love and healing. Intensely personal, this memoir delves into the struggle men face in connecting with themselves and others, offering tools for personal growth and ways to build meaningful and authentic relationships in their lives.

What began as a singular letter in response to a younger family member standing on the precipice of her 60th birthday and asking the age-old question, 'What’s it like to be old?,' soon turned into one full year of unsent reflections, wonderment and curiosity of a life truly lived. Out of these reflections, New York Times-bestselling author Sophy Burnham developed this short, storytelling collection of unsent letters that offer listeners of all ages hope and happiness, and new ways to perceive our later years.

“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.” There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a timeline.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James.

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

Karie Fugett’s story depicts an oft-overlooked reality of war: the experience of the many thousands of caregivers and spouses—mostly women, mostly young, mostly poor—whose lives have been shattered by battles fought against enemies abroad and against addiction at home. Tender, vivid, and laced with dark humor, Alive Day is at once an epic and engrossing love story, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a powerful indictment of the sins of a nation.

What is legacy, and how will I leave one? Betsy Armstrong asks herself this question after her forty-six-year-old mother dies with a list of regrets and her stepfather completely disinherits her. Alone, Betsy sets about building a life of no regrets: becoming a marathon runner and Ironman triathlete, quitting a cushy corporate job to lead a life of service, and overcoming a crippling fear of commitment to marry. Still, she’s always running from the grief she can’t escape.

To whoever is listening to this little book, I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope our story helps you understand that our loved ones, like my big sister, are never really gone. One day, Lady Hershey softly whispered in my ear that she was not afraid to leave. She wanted for me and our favourite person, Olivia, to not be too sad. She knew that she was going to Paradise, along with all the other animals and pets who have been loved very much by their families here on earth.

Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

Written by a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience taking care of terminally ill patients and helping them find comfort and peace as they near their appointed time, Pathway to Heaven Without Fear shares how death is not the final outcome, but a bridge to our new heavenly home. Author Melissa Ralph shares her real experiences in nursing and faith along with comforting scriptures to bring a better understanding of the unknown to listeners looking for a way to draw closer to God.

Cuando la trabajadora social Lisa Keefauver enviudó en 2011, le impresionó descubrir que, aunque todos sufrimos alguna vez, la mayoría de las personas no tiene los conocimientos para lidiar con el duelo. Gracias a su experiencia como terapeuta, pero también como alguien que buscaba ayuda para sobrellevar su propia pérdida, Keefauver se percató de que, muchas veces, las historias de duelo que consumimos nos llevan por el camino equivocado: uno en el que sufrimos de manera innecesaria.

Bisher ist wenig bekannt, wie wichtig die Zeit im Bauch der Mutter für das weitere Leben ist. Noch unbekannter ist, dass die Reise ins Leben oft nicht allein angetreten wird. Das Phänomen des Verlorenen Zwillings, im englischen Sprachraum "vanishing twin" genannt, betrifft aber viele Menschen, rund jeden Zehnten. Die vorgeburtlichen Erfahrungen des innigen Zusammenseins und des Verlustes des Anderen sind lebensprägend.

"Losing my mom at 38-years-old is the most crushing blow I’ve yet to endure, and writing this book has been my lifeline. While I immediately distracted myself with my duty and privilege to honor my mom by writing her obituary, and giving her eulogy, the heaviest grief took some months to take hold."

Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks’s collection of columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others and giving thanks. It also talks about topics such as being a parent, finding and losing one’s faith and most of all, finding happiness. In Celebrating Life, Rabbi Sacks discovers where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also finds it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.