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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Separation & divorce
People going through a divorce or separation have only one wish: to
be happy again. Happy Again is a powerful, step-by-step guide that
provides a blueprint for a brighter, happier, more fulfilling
future after a breakup or divorce. It's not enough for those going
through a breakup or divorce to simply understand their emotions,
reactions, and what caused their relationship to end. They need
immediate, implementable action steps to move forward productively
and consistently while in the midst of the chaos and pain of a
separation. Happy Again is the definitive handbook for those going
through a separation to get their life back on track. Eveline
Jurry's proven Positive Separation Method (TM)provides a blueprint
for disconnecting from the old life, and getting through each day
with energy intact and a new, happy life in sight. It is also full
of interesting and motivational stories from well-known thought
leaders including Marci Shimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood,
Lisa Nichols, and Debra Poneman, as well as Eveline's clients who
have created their own Positive Separations.
*** 'An honest and thoughtful memoir. Moving but, ultimately, full
of hope. Beautiful.' KATE MOSSE 'Superb. Love & Care is a book
about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time
and a love that never dies.' TONY PARSONS 'A beautiful, intimate
story of love and understanding - candid and funny. This is a
lyrical memoir of hope and forgiveness.' RAYNOR WINN, author of The
Salt Path 'He's in hospital again . . . and he's not eating.
Perhaps you should think about coming back to the UK,' Brenda said.
'I don't think your dad will be going home again.' Shaun's mother
is in a care home with Parkinson's Dementia and now his father is
dying. He should go back. And yet this was supposed to be his time.
Shaun has relocated to a new country to make a fresh start. His two
daughters are grown-up. He has moved on from the divorce. He is
single and he is free and still hoping to find love again. Will
this mean giving up on his own life? 'A heart-warming,
heart-wrenching, and beautifully humane account of loving and
caring.' NICCI GERRARD, novelist and author of What Dementia
Teaches Us About Love 'An insightful tale of care . . . this book
needed to be written.' JO GOOD, BBC Radio London 'A vital subject,
a really strong voice and, hurrah, humour makes this absorbing
reading.' CAROLINE RAPHAEL, Radio 4's Book at Bedtime 'An
eye-opening - and at times jaw dropping - account that will make
you weep with its tenderness and compassion . . . A highly readable
tale of redemption and a celebration of love's many hues.' PAUL
BLEZARD, Love Reading 'Moving' DAILY MAIL
Timeless wisdom for all who grieveFor more than fifty years Good
Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a
former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss.
This classic text includes a foreword by Dr. Timothy Johnson, a
leading communicator of medical health care information. An
afterword by the author's daughters tells how the book came to
be.Good Grief identifies ten stages of grief--shock, emotion,
depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance,
hope, and acceptance--but, recognizing that grief is complex and
deeply personal, defines no "right" way to grieve.Good Grief offers
valuable insights on the emotional and physical responses persons
may experience during the natural process of grieving. Reflection
questions help readers explore their own experience with each
stage.Whether mourning the death of a loved one, the end of a
marriage, the loss of a job, or other difficult life changes, Good
Grief is a proven steady companion in times of loss.
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate
family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled
beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two
wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August
weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a rambling family
mansion on the beach in East Hampton, in the last days of the
area's quietly refined country splendor, before traffic jams and
high-end boutiques morphed the peaceful enclave into the
"Hamptons." The weather is perfect, the tent is in place on the
lawn. But as the festivities are readied, the father of the bride,
and "pater familias" of the beachfront manse, suffers a massive
stroke from alcohol withdrawal, and lies in a coma in the hospital
in the next town. So begins Jeanne McCulloch's vivid memoir of her
wedding weekend in 1983 and its after effects on her family, and
the family of the groom. In a society defined by appearance and
protocol, the wedding goes on at the insistence of McCulloch's
theatrical mother. Instead of a planned honeymoon, wedding presents
are stashed in the attic, arrangements are made for a funeral, and
a team of lawyers arrive armed with papers for McCulloch and her
siblings to sign. As McCulloch reveals, the repercussions from that
weekend will ripple throughout her own family, and that of her
in-law's lives as they grapple with questions of loyalty,
tradition, marital honor, hope, and loss. Five years later, her own
brief marriage ended, she returns to East Hampton with her mother
to divide the wedding presents that were never opened.
Impressionistic and lyrical, at turns both witty and poignant, All
Happy Families is McCulloch's clear-eyed account of her struggle to
hear her own voice amid the noise of social mores and family
dysfunction, in a world where all that glitters on the surface is
not gold, and each unhappy family is ultimately unhappy in its own
unique way.
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