Books
Books Written by People Widowed in this Way
This collection of books were written by a person whose loved one experienced the type of death noted for the category on which the book is included. The topics covered are varied, but will relate to some aspect of the widowed experience. A mix of titles from all categories will be included in this section of our book library, and have not in all cases been individually vetted by the Soaring Spirits Program Team.
A Grief Observed
August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Dancing in Two Realms
Happily Even After
A Guide to Getting Through and Beyond the Grief of Widowhood
Leaning into Love
A Spiritual Journey Through Grief
Widows Wear Stilettos
A Practical and Emotional Guide for the Young Widow
Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward
Psychoeducational Books
The books included in our psychoeducational category are written by a person with an educational background in a mental health field, and have been vetted by our Soaring Spirits Program Team. The authors of these books may or may not be widowed, but the concepts included in their books will offer valuable resources to anyone mourning a person who has died.
A to Z Healing Toolbox
A Practical Guide for Navigating Grief and Trauma with Intention
African American Grief
Anxiety the missing stage of grief
The Missing Stage of Grief
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
Different after You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief and Trauma
Getting Grief Right
Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss
Grief is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss
Healing Trauma
How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies
I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye
Surviving, Coping, and Healing after the Death of a Loved One
I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye, 2nd Ed.: A Companion Workbook
Invisible Heroes
Survivors of Trauma and How they Heal
Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On
Twenty Lessons for Managing Worry, Anxiety, and Fear
Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD
A 10 Week Program for Healing After Trauma
On Grief and Grieving
Seven Choices: Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World
Finding Daylight after Loss Shatters Your World
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Grief Recovery Handbook
The Healing Power of the Breath: Simple Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Enhance Concentration and Balance Your Emotions
The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook: A Step-by-Step Program for Overcoming Sleep Problems After Trauma
The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook
The PTSD Solution: The Truth About Your Symptoms and How to Heal
Thriving Through Crisis: Turn Tragedy and Trauma into Growth and Change
Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After the Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One.
Peer Recommendations
Our peer recommendation category offers a space within our library for community members to recommend books related to grief and widowhood that they've found valuable. These books are not individually vetted, but have helped a widowed person who took the time to recommend the book to others.
A Beacon of Hope- A journal for life after loss
A Grief Observed
A Life Continued
A Love Letter to Thomas: My Journey Through Grief
A Right Brain Awakening: What Grief Taught a Heartbroken Engineer
A Widow’s Guide to Healing
A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
At Death Do Us Part: A Grieving Widower Heals After Losing his Wife to Breast Cancer
At the Helm: The Young Widow’s Journey from Struggle to Strength
August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance
Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love
Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss
Digging In: A Novel
Don’t Take My Grief Away From Me
Everything Happens For a Reason…And Other Lies I’ve Loved
Facing the Mountain: Poems on Dying and Death, Caregiving and Hope
Healing After Loss
Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief
Healing Your Traumatized Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies A Sudden, Violent Death
Hints for Grieflings & Griefsurfing
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
Learning to Be Me Without You
Levels of Life
Life Without Lisa
Living When a Loved One Has Died
Looking into the Eye of Grief: An Illustrative View of the Essence of Grief
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love, Interrupted: Navigating Grief One Day at a Time
Loving Grief
No Words: A Journal From One Widow to Another
Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Community
Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories for Handling the Holidays After Loss
Ramblings of a Forty-Something Widow
Re-arranged, Never the Same: The Nature of Grief
Remembering with Love
Messages of Hope for the First Year of Grieving and Beyond
Ride or Die: Loving Through Tragedy, A Husband’s Memoir
Safe Passage
Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
Surviving: Finding Your Way from Grief to Healing
The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
The Boxer’s Corner: A Cancer Caregiver’s Story of Love, Loss, and Isolation
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars
A Neuropsyhologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal
The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life
The Little Book of Trauma Healing
The Loss World
The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care
The Promise: The Stories of Four Burn Pit Survivor Families Who Found Friendship in Their Fight to Win the Largest Veteran Medical Bill in American History
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
The Sudden Loss Survival Guide: Seven Essential Practices for Healing Grief
The Widowed Dancer: Growing Through Grief With Gratitude
The Widower’s Journey: Helping Men Rebuild After Their Loss
Through Death to Life
Until It Wasn’t
When Breath Becomes Air
When You Lose Someone You Love: A Journey Through The Heart of Grief
When Your Spouse Dies
A concise and practical source of help and advice
Widower to Widower: Surviving the End of Your Most Important Relationship
Widowish: A Memoir
Available 2/1/2021
Wife, Widow, Now What?: How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can, Too
Yes, and.: A Journey of Hope through Tragedy
You Can’t Do It Alone
Your Grief, Your Way
Your Own Path Through Grief: A workbook for your journey to recovery
Camp Widow Presenter Books
Soaring Spirits' flagship program, Camp Widow, has been supported by a huge group of volunteer presenters who have shared their personal experiences, their wisdom, and their hearts with our community at any of our camp events. These books are all written by an author who has donated their time to at least one camp weekend. We list their books, which have not been individually vetted, to thank them for the generous support and to offer a broader audience access to the lessons they've taught onsite at Camp Widow.
