Finding Light Understanding Suicide and Embracing Hope

Finding Light Understanding Suicide and Embracing Hope
Author: Willow Haack
Publisher: Pencil
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9362636891

In "Finding Light: Understanding Suicide and Embracing Hope," we embark on a profound journey through the complexities of suicidal ideation, illuminating the paths toward healing, resilience, and hope. With compassion and insight, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted nature of suicide, shedding light on the underlying factors, challenges, and misconceptions surrounding this deeply sensitive topic. Through a series of heartfelt chapters, readers are guided on a transformative exploration of the human experience, delving into the intricate web of emotions, thoughts, and experiences that often accompany suicidal thoughts and behaviors. From understanding the underlying causes and risk factors to navigating the intricacies of mental health and seeking support.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1879651580

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

Facing Darkness, Finding Light

Facing Darkness, Finding Light
Author: Steffany Barton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1844098087

In this powerful book, Steffany Barton, RN, documents her decades long journey to understanding and embracing the valuable lessons offered in life after suicide. With personal passion and professional integrity, Steffany carefully listens to the voices of departed souls and compassionately speaks to those left behind, building a bridge of timeless love between heaven and earth. Those who commit suicide communicate clearly and lovingly from a place of unconditional Love where their souls dwell on the Other Side. "Facing Darkness, Finding Light" provides insight into the afterlife of those who commit suicide, sheds the light on healing in life after suicide, and shares meaningful techniques for forging new bonds between the departed and those left behind. Though the journey begins in the darkness of death, there is hope, there is light. Find it in this truly exceptional book.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 161722121X

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

Finding Hope

Finding Hope
Author: Frank Selden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781953274571

Suicide remains a widespread problem in the United States, with approximately 86 people taking their own lives every day. Shockingly, one of the groups most affected by suicide is the military, including both current and former service members. However, reducing this statistic and addressing the suicide epidemic will require a significant change in society's attitude and mindset toward suicide. This book is an attempt to bring about that change and impact the lives of those who may be at risk for suicide. It is not intended to cure anyone of suicidal thoughts, but rather to provide readers with a deeper understanding of why death by suicide may seem like the only viable option for some. ¿The author understands that suicide affects not only those directly at risk, but also their loved ones, who may have difficulty understanding why someone they care about would choose such an extreme option. For this reason, the book is not intended as a panacea for those at risk of suicide. Instead, the author encourages readers to gain a deeper understanding of suicide themselves and to have honest conversations with their loved ones to help them find alternatives they can believe in. Ultimately, the author's goal is to give people a reason to live. Suicide may seem like the only option for those who are overwhelmed by their problems and struggling to find a way out. However, through the pages of this book, readers are encouraged to honestly examine their lives and explore alternative solutions that can help them find a way forward. By the end of the book, the author hopes that readers will come away with a better understanding of suicide and its effects, and in turn, be able to help themselves or someone they care about find hope and a reason to go on living.

Hope After Suicide

Hope After Suicide
Author: Wendy Parmley
Publisher: Plain Sight
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781462115006

After her mother took her own life, Wendy Parmley learned firsthand the heartache, despair, and loneliness that accompanies suicide loss. Reinvent your definition of saved, perfect, and forgiveness as you read this true narrative of a woman opening her heart years after her mother's suicide and learn how to overcome any loss in your own life.

Making Peace with Suicide

Making Peace with Suicide
Author: Adele Ryan McDowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Suicide
ISBN: 9780982117620

Insightful, provocative, and compassionate, Making Peace with Suicide: A Book of Hope, Understanding, and Comfort takes a good hard look at the world-wide phenomena of suicide. This book is designed for anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide and felt that sucker punch of grief; for anyone who is in pain, walking unsteadily, and considering suicide as an option; and for anyone who works with, guides, or counsels those feeling suicidal and/or suffering the profound grief from a suicidal loss. Making Peace with Suicide includes stories of courage, vulnerability, and steadfastness from both the survivors of suicidal loss as well as the unique perspective of the formerly suicidal. It offers shared wisdom and coping strategies from those who have walked before you. It explores the factors leading to suicide and the reasons why some do and some don't leave suicide notes. Making Peace with Suicide sheds light on the phenomena of suicide vis-a-vis our teens, the military, new mothers, as an end-of-life choice, and asks if addiction is a form of slow suicide. It provides a seven-step healing process and opens the door to consider suicide and the soul, the heart lesson of suicide, and the energies of suicide. If suicidality has impacted your life, Making Peace with Suicide is a must-read. You will be guided through the unknown territory, given insights to allow understanding, stories to help you heal, and ways to make peace with a heart wide-open. Making Peace with Suicide is good medicine for the body, mind, and soul.

Understanding Your Grief

Understanding Your Grief
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004-02-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1879651351

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

Embraced by the Light

Embraced by the Light
Author: Betty J. Eadie
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2002-10-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0553382152

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking account of life after death that has become a source of comfort, inspiration, and solace to millions “I felt a surge of energy, and my spirit was suddenly drawn through my chest and pulled upward. My first impression is that I was free. . . .” On the night of November 19, 1973, following surgery, thirty-one-year-old wife and mother Betty J. Eadie died. This is her extraordinary story of the events that followed, her astonishing proof of life after physical death. She saw more, perhaps than any other person has seen before and shares her almost photographic recollections of the remarkable details. Compelling, inspiring, and infinitely reassuring, her vivid account gives us a glimpse of the peace and unconditional love that awaits us all. More important, Betty's journey offers a simple message that can transform our lives today, showing us our purpose and guiding us to live the way we were meant to—joyously, abundantly, and with love. Praise for Embraced by the Light “The most detailed and spellbinding near-death experience I have ever heard.”—Kimberly Clark-Sharp, president, Seattle International Association of Near-Death Studies

Finding Hope

Finding Hope
Author: Darla Isackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781940025032

This is a compelling book. Comforting, a bringer of peace to those who have lost loved ones through suicide. But this book is not just for those most affected by such a loss. This is for everyone. It will fill troubled souls with hope and help them come to know that God will wipe away all tears from their eyes and bring to them courage to confront the challenges they face. FINDING HOPE will reveal a deeper understanding of Christ's healing power. Manifest a glorious message of hope and love to grieving souls.