What To Do When The Police Leave
By: Bill Jenkins

Written by a victim for other victims and their caregivers, this book offers authoritative and invaluable advice, guidance, and resources for families dealing with the traumatic loss of a family member or friend.

Finalist in the category of Best First Book in the Publishers Marketing Association's Benjamin Franklin Awards 2000, "What To Do When The Police Leave" is being used by victim assistance programs, clergy, funeral homes, and police departments across North America as they work with and serve the bereaved. It is recognized as one of the most valuable resources available for grieving families.

This one of a kind resource is heart-to-heart practical advice from one who has been through the trenches of grief and loss, encouraging and helping others in their own paths. The victims' voice has never spoken so clearly.

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
By: Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
 

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human.

When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, “NO!” with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear—and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should.

Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life’s most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Dr. Joanne Cacciatore—bereavement educator, researcher, Zen priest, and leading counselor in the field—accompanies us along the heartbreaking path of love, loss, and grief. Through moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities—as well as her own experience with loss—Cacciatore opens a space to process, integrate, and deeply honor our grief.

An Unwanted Journey: Embracing Life After Loss
By: Jennifer Nilsen

Jennifer's world shatters when an unexpected visitor confronts her husband at work while she's on the phone. In the blink of an eye, her life takes a harrowing turn.

As Jennifer grapples with the shock, fear, and post-traumatic stress of this devastating loss, the narrative unfolds, unraveling the complexities of the aftermath. She faces myriad challenges, from navigating the intricacies of a criminal case to handling her husband's estate without a will.
 

This book intimately shares Jennifer's journey, interwoven with the compelling stories of fellow survivors she encounters through a grief therapy group. As a narrative and a guide, the book provides valuable resources and journal pages, empowering individuals to navigate their grief and forge their own paths toward healing and renewal.
 

A poignant testament to resilience, the book extends hope and support to those who have weathered sudden loss, offering solace and a roadmap for moving forward in life.

Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
By: Stephen Southwick and Dennis Charney

Many of us will be struck by one or more major traumas sometime in our lives. Perhaps you have been a victim of sexual abuse, domestic violence or assault. Perhaps you were involved in a serious car accident. Perhaps you are a combat veteran. Maybe you were on the beach in Thailand during a tsunami, or in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Or maybe, you are among the millions who have suffered a debilitating disease, lost a loved one or lost your job. This inspiring book identifies ten key ways to weather and bounce back from stress and trauma. Incorporating the latest scientific research and dozens of interviews with trauma survivors, it provides a practical guide to building emotional, mental and physical resilience. Written by experts in post-traumatic stress, this book provides a vital and successful roadmap for overcoming the adversities we all face at some point in our lives.

Grieving is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable
By: Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. This book is a companion to carry with you throughout your day, to touch in with and be supported by when bearing the unbearable pain of a loved one’s death—whether weeks or years since their passing. Our culture often makes the bereaved feel alone, isolated, broken, and like they should just “get over it”—this book offers a loving antidote. Open to any page and you’ll find something that will instantly help you feel not alone, while honoring the full weight of loss.

This book is comprised of quotations from Bearing the Unbearable, and other sources as well, plus an enormous amount of new material from Dr. Jo. Especially well-suited for the grieving mind that may struggle with concentration, just 30 seconds on any page will empower, hearten, and validate any bereaved person—helping give strength and courage to bear life’s most painful losses.

Murder Survivor's Handbook
By: Connie Saindon

Murder Survivor's Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources helps family members adapt to the aftermath of murder. This book provides information, resources, and strategies for learning to live with the aftermath of a homicide, including safety issues, dealing with the criminal justice system, addressing the news media, and coping with traumatic grief, while preserving the memory of a loved one. In the book, Survivor Writers describe their own experiences and, through their tips and suggestions, lend a helping hand to those who follow in their footsteps. The book also encourages the readers to write down their own feelings and experiences as they take this journey no one ever wants to take, but in which they had no choice.

The Journey: Learning to Live with Violent Loss
By: Connie Saindon

“The Journey: Learning to Live with Violent Loss” leads people through a healing process after losing a family member or friend in a violent death. The workbook is written for individuals and facilitators of grief support groups. It is based on the Restorative Retelling model developed by Dr. Edward K. Rynearson. The workbook encourages readers to write about their experiences and guides their grieving and healing process.

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that doesn't understand
By: Megan Devine

Having experienced grief from both sides―as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner―Megan writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, "happy" life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it. In this compelling and heartful book, you’ll learn:

• Why well-meaning advice, therapy, and spiritual wisdom so often end up making it harder for people in grief
• How challenging the myths of grief―doing away with stages, timetables, and unrealistic ideals about how grief should unfold―allows us to accept grief as a mystery to be honored instead of a problem to solve
• Practical guidance for managing stress, improving sleep, and decreasing anxiety without trying to "fix" your pain
• How to help the people you love―with essays to teach us the best skills, checklists, and suggestions for supporting and comforting others through the grieving process

The Loss That Is Forever
By: Maxine Harris

Who one becomes, how one loves, how one parents, and what one believes about the world are all shaped by the experience of a parent's early death. For anyone who has survived the early loss of a parent--as well as for those with a spouse, friend, or lover who has lost a parent in childhood--this moving and powerful book is an important guide to discovery and understanding.

Healing After Loss Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief
By: Martha Whitmore Hickman

For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are strength and thoughtful words to inspire and comfort.

The Grief Diaries-Surviving Loss By Homicide
By: Lynda Cheldelin Fell with Donna Gore
 

Offering an intimate collection of true stories by people who share a journey unlike any other, this book is a portable support group. Filled with answers to poignant questions, each writer shares insight into the process of coping with a violent tragedy, and play a vital role in surrounding readers with warmth and comfort as they seek understanding and healing in the aftermath of their own loss.
 

Email From Heaven 2.0
By: L. J. Capobianco

This completely New Edition was written for all who seek comfort for grieving, and to help ease the anguish felt for a loved one lost under tragic circumstances. It also offers uplifting answers to those reflecting upon their own end of life questions. The Hope-Filled story weaves a fascinating vision of our loved one's new life in Heaven. In addition, it gives a clear explanation of how the Faithful (and the not so faithful) may enter Heaven's Gates. Believers and non-believers alike are warmly invited to discover a greater understanding of what awaits us when our time on Earth is over.

Ghost Rider: Travels On the Healing Road
By: Neil Peart

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of loss and directionless ness that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. He had needed to get away, but had not really needed a destination. His travel adventures chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, thinking, and reminiscing as he rode until he encountered the miracle that allowed him to find peace.

All Is Not Lost
By: Leslie Charles

In this, her sensitively written book, Leslie offers an intimate, personal look at handling the unexpected, unwanted, or inevitable. No stranger to grief, loss, and meeting life's challenges, Leslie chronicles her own healing journey and that of others. If you are seeking personal renewal or peace of mind following the aftermath of death, divorce, illness, personal upheaval, or other losses, this book will take you through the delicate process of healing and moving on. If you have a friend or loved one who is facing tough times, this book makes a powerful, caring gift.

No Time for Goodbyes: Coping With Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death
By: Janice Harris Lord

Offering hope and useful suggestions to those grieving the loss of a loved one, this guide provides outlets for feelings of grief, anger, frustration, and disappointment. It is devoted to the unique grief suffered by the families and friends of persons killed suddenly and violently. This book provides self-affirming skills of emotional expression that will help get survivors well again.

Man's Search for Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
 

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.

Funny He Doesn't Look Like a Murderer, But Margie is Dead
By Shirley Pierce Bostrom

A mother's painful story to alert others about the danger of intimate partner homicide.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By: Harold S. Kushner

When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being.

Water Bugs and Dragonflies
By: Doris Stickney
 

"Water Bugs and Dragonflies" tells the story of a small colony of water bugs living happily below the surface of a quiet pond. Every so often one of them climbs up a lily stalk and disappears from sight, never to return. Those left behind are faced with the mystery of figuring out what has become of them.

The Invisible String
By Patrice Karst

The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds us all: An Invisible String made of love. Even though you can't see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach? Does it ever go away? This heartwarming picture book for all ages explores questions about the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us, and opens up deeper conversations about love.

Sending Balloons to Heaven
By Lindsey Coker Luckey
 

Sending Balloons to Heaven follows the story of one young girl who has recently lost her grandmother and finds solace in a simple act that turns out to be the bridge to healing, expressing her emotions openly, and learning to celebrate the memories and honor her grandmother in the sweetest way.
 

This beautiful children’s picture book with a much-needed message for children as they struggle with grief will spark a conversation, help children work through their emotions, and learn to move on in healthily in their own time.

A Terrible Thing Happened
By Margaret M. Holmes

This gently told and tenderly illustrated story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire.

How Do We Tell the Children?
By: Daniel Schaefer P.h.D and Christine Lyons

Many children's lives are touched by a serious illness within their families, and some will be faced with the loss of a parent or grandparent, or the death of a sibling or beloved pet. How can adults help young people cope with these losses? How do they explain and console in language that a child can understand?

Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
By: Bryan Mellonie

Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings. And about endings. And about living in between. With large, wonderful illustrations, it tells about plants. About animals. About people. It tells that dying is as much a part of living as being born. It helps us to remember. It helps us to understand.

 Guiding Your Child Through Grief
By: Mary Ann Emswiler & James P. Emswiler
 

By the founders of the New England Center for Loss & Transition and The Cove, a highly praised program for grieving children, takes away the uncertainty and helpless feelings we commonly feel as we reach out to children who mourn. This caring and compassionate guide offers expert advice during difficult days to help a child grieve the death of a parent or sibling. Based on their experience as counselors--and as parents of grieving children--the authors help readers to understand:

- The many ways children grieve, often in secret
- Changes in family dynamics after death and straightforward, effective ways to ease the  transition
- Ways to communicate with children about death and grief
- How to cope with the intense sorrow triggered by holidays
- The signs grief has turned to depression and where to find help
-And more insights, information, and advice that can help a child heal

Homicide: Enfrentar Una Muerte Traumatica: Homicidio
Por: Bob Bauer y Lew Cox
 

Este libro guía al lector de idioma español a través de los pasos que siguen a un homicidio. El libro comienza con los primeros días, luego en las próximas semanas, meses y años. El libro incluye la historia del coautor, Lew Cox, cuya hija, Carmon fue asesinada y la serie de reacciones de dolor que experimentó.

¿Dónde va a parar?
Por: Julia Alvarez
 

Julia Alvarez es un poema bellamente elaborado para niños que aborda delicadamente el lado emocional de la muerte. El libro pregunta, “Cuando alguien muere, ¿dónde va a parar? / ¿Será con el viento cuando le da con soplar? … ¿Me hacen guiños—como estrellas cuando les pido un favor—parpadeando ‘Eres perfecta, no hay que ser algo mejor? …” Ilustrado por la artista de grabado de Vermont, Sabra Field, ¿Donde va a parar?, es una hermosa y reconfortante meditación sobre la muerte, haciendo preguntas lectores jóvenes de español podrían tener acerca de lo que pasa a las personas que aman después de que mueren.

Cómo curar un corazón roto
Por: Gaby Perez Islas

Todos los días nos enfrentamos a diferentes tipos de pérdidas: desde cosas a las que tenemos gran apego, hasta divorcios, la muerte de un ser querido, un cambio de domicilio, la pérdida de un empleo, de una mascota o de la salud, adicciones, trastornos de la alimentación, secuestros, suicidios y sueños no alcanzados. Cómo curar un corazón roto es un manual de sanación y crecimiento claro, directo y práctico; es un tanatólogo de buró para ti, que deseas enfrentar el tema de las pérdidas y de la realidad de la muerte, pero sobre todo es un libro que te hablará sobre la vida, cómo vivirla con intensidad, responsabilidad y sentido, motivándote a recuperarte y sanar el dolor. Gaby Pérez Islas te guía y aconseja sobre qué hacer ante una pérdida, qué no decir al confortar, lo que sí ayuda, cómo explicar a los niños situaciones límite, reponerse, recuperar la autoestima y el sentido de seguridad, y salir fortalecido para alcanzar de nuevo una vida feliz.

Sopa de Lagrimas: Una Receta Para Sanar Despues de una Perdida

Sopa de lágrimas, una receta para sanar después de la pérdida es un libro de cuentos familiares que se centra en una anciana y algo sabia, Grandy. Grandy acaba de sufrir una gran pérdida en su vida, por lo que se dirige a la cocina para hacer un lote especial de sopa de lágrimas. Para condimentar su sopa, Grandy agrega recuerdos como los buenos tiempos y los malos tiempos, los tontos y los tristes tiempos. Ella no quiere olvidar ni un solo recuerdo precioso de su pérdida.