What Loss Can Teach Us

What Loss Can Teach Us
Author: Beth Taulman Miller
Publisher: Upper Room Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0835819639

After a significant loss, many people rush to get back a sense of normalcy without allowing themselves time to heal and learn from that loss. Our loving and compassionate God longs to walk with individuals on a transformational journey through loss toward becoming more emotionally and spiritually whole. This book shows readers that God offers an "on ramp" to the process of tending to their pain. What Loss Can Teach Us provides readers with stepping-stones for getting through loss and pain while discovering the lessons they can learn through that process. Including her own story of loss, the author guides us in spiritual practices that helped her heal. While nothing changes its reality, loss can lead to an important juncture where readers will decide if they can trust God to take them through the hard process of growth and healing by allowing themselves to be shaped by the lessons they learn through their recovery. What Loss Can Teach Us can serve as a road map for that transformational journey.

Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn

Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn
Author: John C. Maxwell
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1455555339

#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell believes that any setback, whether professional or personal, can be turned into a step forward when you possess the right tools to turn a loss into a gain. Drawing on nearly fifty years of leadership experience, Dr. Maxwell provides a roadmap for winning by examining the eleven elements that constitute the DNA of learners who succeed in the face of problems, failure, and losses. 1. Humility - The Spirit of Learning 2. Reality - The Foundation of Learning 3. Responsibility - The First Step of Learning 4. Improvement - The Focus of Learning 5. Hope - The Motivation of Learning 6. Teachability - The Pathway of Learning 7. Adversity - The Catalyst of Learning 8. Problems - The Opportunities of Learning9. Bad Experiences - The Perspective for Learning10. Change - The Price of Learning 11. Maturity - The Value of Learning Learning is not easy during down times, it takes discipline to do the right thing when something goes wrong. As John Maxwell often points out--experience isn't the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

The Five Invitations

The Five Invitations
Author: Frank Ostaseski
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1250074665

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation. The Five Invitations: -Don’t Wait -Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing -Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience -Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things -Cultivate Don’t Know Mind These Five Invitations show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis; they guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. Awareness of death can be a valuable companion on the road to living well, forging a rich and meaningful life, and letting go of regret. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us.

Life Lessons

Life Lessons
Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1476775532

A guide to living life in the moment uses lessons learned from the dying to help the living find the most enjoyment and happiness.

Getting To Forgiveness

Getting To Forgiveness
Author: Susie Levan
Publisher: Bee Hive Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949639650

Getting to Forgiveness: What a Near-Death Experience Can Teach Us About Life and Love is a deeply personal story about resiliency and divine purpose--sharing pain, pleasure, confusion, and enlightenment written by a reluctant author. Through it all, Levan blends engaging spiritual thought-provoking lessons, meaningful insights, and life lessons of gratitude, acceptance, and compassion that will inspire her readers long after they have read her book. She shares how she has emerged a stronger soul after her NDE, miracle, and unique life experiences that qualifies her to give birth to this poignant, spiritual memoir. This book is a must-read for anyone striving to create a more awakened and fulfilled life.

Finding Hope When a Child Dies

Finding Hope When a Child Dies
Author: Sukie Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-08-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0684865610

A renowned psychotherapist offers parents who have suffered the death of a child a new context for understanding and coping with their loss. Miller draws on years of research to present a wide-ranging look at the rituals parents practice around the world to understand both why their child has died and to find a comforting explanation for what happens to children after death.

Children of the Dome

Children of the Dome
Author: Rosemary Smith
Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of California
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-04
Genre: Bereavement
ISBN: 9780934793780

Collected to help parents deal with the grief of losing a child, these stories are written by parents who have been through this devastating experience. Outlining the spiritual healing process, lessons collected from the author's active support group are shared to create an inspiring and moving compilation of healing experiences.

Intimate Death

Intimate Death
Author: Marie De Hennezel
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0307486346

How do we learn to die? Most of us spend our lives avoiding that question, but this luminous book--a major best-seller in France--answers it with a directness and eloquence that are nothing less than transforming. As a psychologist in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris, Marie de Hennezel has spent seven years tending to people who are relinquishing their hold on life. She tells the stories of her patients and their families. de Hennezel teaches us how to turn death--our loved ones' or our own--from something lonely and agonizing into a sacred passage. She discusses the importance of an honest reckoning, the value of ritual, the necessity of touch. In imparting these lessons, Intimate Death becomes a guide to living more fully, more intensely, than we had thought possible. "Unique...Of all the books I have read about the endings of our lives, this elegiac testimony has taught me the most."--Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die "The quiet, obvious truths [de Hennezel] discovers in her work--these things have a kind of cumulative power."--Washington Post Book World From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Beauty of What Remains

The Beauty of What Remains
Author: Steve Leder
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0593187555

The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon. As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains. This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Yet even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. Enriched by Rabbi Leder's irreverence, vulnerability, and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.

Blessing the Bridge

Blessing the Bridge
Author: Rita M. Reynolds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Bereavement
ISBN: 9780939165599

Like a hospice worker, author Rita M. Reynolds cares for sick and dying animals, helping them comfortably cross the threshold into death. She shares stories about dogs, cats, a donkey, a cow, ducks, goats, and even baby wild mice she cares for as they die. Reynolds teaches basic skills in respectfully handling a dying animal, whether it's a newborn bird that's fallen from a tree or a beloved dog that is terminally ill. Her new edition includes blessings and prayers for animals, whether in the process of dying or who have already passed over. Reynolds believes in divine and angelic influences when it comes to helping animals cross over. She believes animals possess unique souls that transform into an afterlife. She even tells of seeing the spirits of dead animals and messages they bring her. Many of Reynolds' lessons are conveyed through real-life stories, where the reader witnesses how she simultaneously releases and embraces dying animals. Like The Tibetan Book of the Dead, this book has functional appeal and longevity. This book appeals to anyone grieving and looking for comfort.