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Suggested Reading Lists for Empowerment and Dealing With Loss

Reading List for Empowerment:

This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmes

Live Your Joy: How to Awaken from Spiritual Slumber  by Barbara Gulbranson

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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Joseph Murphy

The Power of Prayer by Dr. Thomas Sanner

The Universe is Calling by Eric Butterworth

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

Practicing the Presence by Joel Goldsmith

Handle with Prayer by Alan Cohen

Getting Results from Prayer by Emmett Fox

Dynamic Laws of Prayer by Catherine Ponder

In the Sanctuary of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda

There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne Dyer

The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Thich Nhat Hanh


Reading List for Dealing with Loss:

Grieving Mindfully: A compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
by Sameet M. Kumar, PH.D

“Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference. By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable of transforming and healing the grief you carry and finding the spiritual and emotional resilience you need to move through this challenging time. These mindful practices, explained in simple and practical language, will help you bear your time of grief. But they will do more than that, too. They will guide you to a more fully lived life, with more meaning. These simple practices will help you experience what riches come from asking deeper questions about loss and life.”

How To Survive The Loss of A Love
By Melba Colgrove, PH.D
Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D.
Peter McWilliams

How to Survive the Loss of a Love is the most directly helpful book on the subject of loss ever written. Clear, simple, comforting, inspiring – it gives the reader what he or she needs at each step of in the process of recovering from a loss.

Stepping Stones to Grief Recovery
Edited by Deborah Roth

“We will be using “Stepping Stones” for our terminal care nurses who face death every day and need to comfort families in their care. It is both practical and inspiring.” David Kessler, RN

Living With Grief: Before And After The Death
Hospice Foundation of America; Edited by Kenneth J. Doka

Chapter Titles: “The Dying Process”; “Grief: New Insights and Developments”; “Implications for Practice”; “The Importance of Self-Care”.

Good Grief: Rituals for Dealing with Grief
By Elaine Childs-Gowell, ARNP, PhD

“This is a book of tools for life. The tools in this book are called healing rituals. If these rituals are used as directed they will allow you to become complete with most if not all of the grief issues which you have still facing you. The book provides a set of skills for anyone who has experienced a loss of any kind in their life. These rituals are given as a set of tools for those who are currently grieving. It is also for those who have “old” grief issues. This book provides rituals for dealing with forgiveness and ultimately with gratitude.

Overcoming Loss: A Healing Guide
By Dr. Rita Freedman

“You can move beyond the pain of personal loss and heal the wounds within. Noted psychologist Dr. Rita Freedman offers a sensitive step by step approach that will help you overcome loss, , to mourn, to cope, to accept, and gradually to recover. This book can help you to create a brighter tomorrow.”


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