When you and your children experience the loss of someone very important to you, it can seem overwhelming. How will your family get though this difficult and life-changing experience? How do you talk with your children about what's happened? What do the children need from you? What do you need for yourself? This book offers a road map: suggestions on how to talk with your children, from little to big, about the difficult new experiences and changes you're now facing. There are straight-forward ideas and examples of how you can support your children -- responding to them in helpful ways and providing meaningful and secure structure in their changing lives. The Road to Good Mourning is an assuring, compassionate, accessible resource. It provides education and support for parents in a way that is friendly, conversational, easy to read, understand and put to good use. It was written in bite-sized pieces, especially helpful for those feeling overwhelmed by their grief and needing something in a simple, short, easy-to-read format. The Road to Good Mourning is full of everyday examples and stories that grieving parents will recognize and identify with immediately -- what to do about children attending (or not having attended) a funeral or rite of farewell, how to help children find a safe and comfortable way to share their story with others, engaging kids in talking about feelings in ways that are welcoming and even fun, and re-establishing a sense of safety and security in what has become an uncertain world. The Road to Good Mourning is full of wisdom, common sense and deep compassion for grieving families. It makes a wonderful literary companion for those struggling with raising their own grieving children or an appreciated gift for someone dealing with this difficult reality.

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Elizabeth Meyer’s “sweet, touching, and funny” (Booklist) memoir reads as if “Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City’s Upper East Side—mixing big money, society drama, and the universal experience of grieving—told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner. Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father’s funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother’s favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city’s most high-powered residents. Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes, singular) was living a double life, a famous corpse with a missing brain, and funerals that cost more than most weddings. By turns illuminating, emotional, and darkly humorous, Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows—whether you’re wearing this season’s couture or drug-store flip-flops.

Awaken to Good Mourning - An Essential and Practical Guide for Dealing With Grief.Rebuild your life after the loss of a loved one. Awaken to Good Mourning, which became an Amazon Kindle bestseller in less than 24 hours, is an essential guide for anyone struggling to cope with grief. The courage required to make it through such an intensely personal journey can be found in this book. After experiencing his own heart-wrenching grief, Mark E. Hundley created a life-saving road map designed to show readers how to deal with grief in dynamic ways. By using these effective strategies for grief reconciliation, you can learn to rebuild your life.Personal Experience With Grief. Mark wrote this book after his own personal experiences with death, mourning, and recovery. He, like so many others in our society, was not prepared to face the excruciating pain when his first wife, Christy, died after a car accident in 1989. He suddenly found himself the single father of a 7-year-old daughter. He was numb, angry, confused, and frightened as he searched for some kind of guidance and support to get through the tasks ahead.As he worked through his grief, he learned many practical principles and discovered some very helpful resources around which he rebuilt his life. He wrote Awaken to Good Mourning because he believed that individuals and families facing the devastating death of a loved one could also benefit from these resources and principles.Benefits For Readers * Contains sections to guide you through each of the three phases of mourning. * Offers essential encouragement throughout each grief phase. * Provides tips to help you with challenges and choices that are common for each grief phase. * Outlines how to cope with various emotional and physical feelings related to grief. * Helps you track your progress using a mourning assessment. * Includes a list of important paperwork and things to remember and consider when dealing with the loss of a loved one. * Features several personal worksheets focusing on topics, such as building an action plan and creating a life plan.Valuable Grief Resource. Awaken to Good Mourning * Has been given by life insurance companies and funeral homes as a gift to client families. * Has been referenced and quoted in scholarly articles and graduate level counseling textbooks. * Has been shared with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of death losses.About Mark E. Hundley Experienced Grief Counselor Mark and his wife, Vanessa, own McKinney Counseling Services in McKinney, TX and their main specialty is grief counseling. He is a Life Transition Specialist with a specific expertise in the field of grief. He works with individuals, families and corporations to create and implement strategies for powerful living despite obstacles faced. Mark is also a public speaker and has traveled throughout the country speaking to various groups regarding coping with grief. He is a co-founder of the Journey of Hope Grief Support Center in Plano, TX, a non-profit agency that provides free group grief support to children, adolescents and their parents or adult caregivers as they learn to mourn the death of a loved one. Education and Credentials Mark earned his B.A. in Sociology from Hardin-Simmons University and his Master's in Counseling from the University of North Texas. .He has worked with children, youth and families since 1971 in various capacities - ministry, education and private counseling practice.

In this brief book Allan Hugh Cole explains the process of grief and what loss can do to us, identifies ways of coping, and reminds us of the hope that we can find in mourning. Ultimately, Cole offers a plan of "good mourning"--a way to work through the loss and rebuild life with new strength. Cole describes what it takes to be engaged in good mourning instead of endless suffering and demonstrates how faith and prayer can be practical tools in rebuilding life after loss.

The deceased have a right to a last word... Especially the hastened. Someone is killing the residents of the Falls Assisted Living and Memory Care Center (FALM) in idyllic Benton Falls. Jules Storey, the Marketing Director of the FALM, is the first to suspect this and convinces eulogist and Visiting Angels member Axel Ahearne of the conspiracy, but no one believes them. It is up to Axel and Jules to find the killer before another resident dies, putting together a plan to catch the killer, even if it means they will have to use a certain resident for bait, Axel’s grandmother, Winnie.

Grieving doesn't mean you must be consumed by grief. If you're looking for unique ways to cope with the loss of a spouse, parent, child, family member or close friend, Have a Good Mourning is the book for you. You'll discover transformational ways to mourn as you avoid the perpetual darkness that sometimes follows grief and heal even as you keep your loved one's memory alive. In Have a Good Mourning, you'll hear the tales of others whose journeys inspired change, hope and joy including: How Kinja Dixon, a self-made millionaire and of Re-Creationism, meaningfully reconnected with his late mother. How Big Apple marketer Jennifer Morilla turned her loss into a gift-bringing desperately needed clean water filters and a sense of caring to underdeveloped communities abroad. And how Michael Tesalona, a web guru and Ted Talk speaker, feels his sister's presence wherever he goes. Most of all, Have a Good Mourning illustrates how mourning with joy can give you a newfound purpose and bolster your life forever.