Loss

[close] This online bookclub is for all who provide grief support - personally or professionally - or are grieving themselves. Every quarter, we will select one adult book and one youth book (child or teen) to read and discuss. We encourage you to purchase books through Ted E. Bear Hollow (tedebearhollow.org/merchandise). For these sales, Centering Corporation will donate 10% to Ted E. Bear Hollow. Ted E. Bear Hollow (tedebearhollow.org) is a grief support center in Omaha, Nebraska. We provide a variety of FREE support groups and camps for youth ages 3-18 and adults who are grieving a death. By providing a welcoming, safe space with unconditional companioning, children, teens and their families can find hope and healing.

[close] Let's Talk About Loss is proud to run the Bereavement Book Club. Many people find reading books so helpful for understanding and living with loss. For that reason, the Bereavement Book Club supports those who are grieving with book suggestions uploaded every month and this is a place where we can discuss our monthly picks and stay in touch with one another.

[close] Death Cafe is a continuation of the in person Death Cafe movement. Our mission is simple at the events: No agenda, no ideology, no promotion, no "educating" others. In death, we are all beginners. Let's try the same thing here. Because this is a website dedicated to books, our discussions here may end up being more narrow than in person events.

[close] ...October 13, 2013 to November 12, 2013... Have you read Love For Our Afflictions? Are you interested in reading it? Talk with the author here! Ask questions, post thoughts, talk with others who might be also be reeling from affliction or on their own journey of self discovery. "As I courageously sat down to write my story, I did so with blurred vision and a keyboard drenched from all the tears. As I wept and wrote, it was with the sincere hope that my story would one day help someone else. I wrote honestly--sometimes to my detriment--but inside are more truths and revelations than I thought would be revealed. May my words help those in affliction, beyond affliction, or without affliction. This is a story for everyone." x Ariana Carruth In an age where so many secret stories are demanding to be told, the author fearlessly takes us into her broken heart in hopes of buoying others in their own afflictions. As her life is split open early, repeatedly and even savagely from threats to babies born and unborn, to a daughter’s health and longevity, and to a husband’s fidelity, she discovers the gifts that lay hidden within each. Freed from her afflictions, she finds a path to authentic living. Clearing a fiercely unconventional path to her own heart's desires, she also finds a new life as a Jew with a conversion to Judaism. Love for Our Afflictions does more than advise making lemonade out of lemons. It wakes us up to challenge an old, unchallenged belief--that afflictions are to be dreaded and feared-- and shows us how we can instead find love for our afflictions.