A space in the heart A survival guide for grieving parents
Book - 2025
"A Space in the Heart: A Survival Guide for Grieving Parents expresses the anguish of the death of a child and offers hope for how to survive and thrive in its aftermath. Part memoir, part self-help, zero bullshit, and 100 percent from the heart, it confronts our never-ending love for our children and how that love helps us transform and heal"--
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- Genres
- Autobiographies
Self-help publications
Livres de croissance personnelle - Published
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xvi, 221 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781538186596
- Preface
- Part I. The End
- 1. A Day in the Life . . . If You Can Still Call It That
- 2. My Bad Dream
- 3. Gentle on My Mind
- 4. One from the Heart
- 5. It's Not about the Words
- 6. We Are Extraordinary Parents
- 7. Stuck in Suck City
- 8. Handle with Care
- 9. Terrible, Thanks for Asking
- 10. Every Picture Tells a Story
- 11. The People in Your Heart Will Make You Cry
- 12. Scream Real Loud
- 13. The Twelve Steps of Grief
- 14. Reality Bites
- 15. Everything Is Going to Be Okay
- 16. Me and You
- Part II. The Middle
- 17. One Step Forward
- 18. A Swift Kick in the Ass
- 19. Finding Your People
- 20. Talk Therapy
- 21. When Love Isn't Enough
- 22. Whys, What Ifs, and Other Futile Questions
- 23. Grief Observed
- 24. We Were Robbed
- 25. Things Change
- 26. The Things They Left Behind
- 27. Thirty-Second Time-Out
- 28. Parts of You
- 29. Say Hello to My Sad Little Friends
- 30. Putting in the Work
- 31. The Larry Show
- 32. Trigger Happy
- 33. Three Women
- 34. Answers from the Great Beyond
- 35. The Soul Knows When It's Time to Go
- 36. Being and Nothingness
- 37. Letters from Home
- 38. Face Time
- 39. Long Ago and Faraway
- 40. Signs of Love
- 41. Comic Relief
- 42. The Presence of Their Absence
- 43. O-o-h Child, Things Are Gonna Get Easier
- 44. What to Expect When You're Expecting to Cry Forever
- 45. Me and You, Part 2
- Part III. The Beginning
- 46. Never Let Me Go
- 47. The Son Also Rises
- 48. Shadows and Light
- 49. It's Complicated
- 50. Accidentally on Purpose
- 51. Do You Believe in Magic?
- 52. How Psychedelics Helped Heal My Broken Heart
- 53. Final Thirty-Second Time-Out
- 54. Days of the Dead
- 55. A Life in a Flash
- 56. The Return of Joy
- 57. Becoming Extraordinary
- 58. The Final Lesson
- 59. Me and Him: A Conversation with God
- 60. Life Rolls On
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author