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Books

Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers This book addresses the challenges faced by families and friends of those living with Alzheimer; it reveals how their feelings...

Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing A hospice physician relates his experiences working with those close to death, and asserts that the dying process can be...

The Secret C: Straight Talking About Cancer This booklet is aimed at supporting parents or carers and encourages open communication and questions about cancer within...

Sex When You're Sick Sexuality is much more than sex. This book describes how illness and injury impact sexual functioning. Readers will better...

Someone Died…Now What? A personal and professional perspective on coping with grief and loss This book shares some practical and helpful tools for dealing with grief and loss. The author shares her personal story as...

The Suitcase & The Jar: Travels with a Daughter's Ashes When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional...

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers a practical book about living with a terminal illness. He provides...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...

Woman Cancer Sex Sexuality is an important part of life; during a cancer illness, sexuality is a real issue for women and their partners.