
Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died
Coping with Loss Every Day
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Janina Edwards
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Myra Lucretia Taylor
About this listen
The grieving process: Ty Alexander of Gorgeous in Grey is one of the top bloggers today. She has a tremendous personal connection with her listeners. This is never more apparent than when she speaks about her mother. The pain of loss is universal. Yet, we all grieve differently.
For Alexander, the grieving process is one that she lives with day-to-day. Learning from her pain, Alexander connects with her listeners on a deeply emotional level in her debut audiobook Things I Wish I Knew before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day. From grief counseling to sharing insightful true stories, Alexander offers comfort, reassurance, and hope in the face of sorrow.
Coping with loss: In her early 20s reality smacked Ty in the face. She was ill-equipped to deal with the emotional and intellectual rollercoaster of dealing with her mom's illness. Through her own trial and error, she found a way to be a caregiver, patient advocate, researcher, and a grieving daughter. She wrote Things I Wish I Knew before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day to help others find the "best" way to cope and move on; however, one personally decides what that means.
Mourning and remembrance: In the chapters of this soul-touching audiobook, mourners will find meaning and wisdom in grieving and the love that will always remain. Each chapter is a study and lesson in coping with loss:
- Chapter 1: We've been duped, everyone dies!
- Chapter 2: When fragmented families grieve
- Chapter 3: The art of losing
- Chapter 4: The how of grieving
- Chapter 5: How to be obsessively grateful
- Chapter 6: Things every mother should tell her daughter
- Chapter 7: Dear Mommy
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In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This audiobook does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather, it provides supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief. There is no “right way” to grieve, and there is no right way to use this book.
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Helpful
- By spucky85 on 04-11-19
By: Jan Warner
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
- Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- By: Brook Noel, Pamela D. Blair Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Tapping their personal histories and drawing on numerous interviews, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D., explore unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye provides survivors with a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
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Best Grief Book yet
- By Paul F. on 08-02-14
By: Brook Noel, and others
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Bearing the Unbearable
- Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
- By: Joanne Cacciatore
- Narrated by: Joanne Cacciatore
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, “NO!” with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear—and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should. Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life’s most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity.
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Grieving is a rebellious act
- By Ghost on 11-17-24
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The Orphaned Adult
- Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents
- By: Alexander Levy
- Narrated by: Jeff Steitzer
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be. The Orphaned Adult guides listeners through the storm of change this passage brings and anchors them with its compassionate and reassuring wisdom.
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Disappointing
- By D. Ballard on 03-05-20
By: Alexander Levy
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It's OK That You're Not OK
- Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
- By: Megan Devine
- Narrated by: Megan Devine
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides - as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner - Megan writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing.
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The author of this book is capital-A Angry
- By A. E. Ober on 08-26-20
By: Megan Devine
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Mom's Gone, Now What? Ten Steps to Help Daughters Move Forward After Mother Loss
- By: Mershon Niesner
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring guide by a woman who understands mother loss as a life-altering experience. Mershon Niesner was eight-years-old when her mother died. In addition to her early loss story, Niesner interviewed over fifty daughters giving readers a broad perspective on mother loss. Stories and advice comes from daughters of teen and young adult loss, loss through homicide, abandonment, and Alzheimer’s. Mershon writes from her heart as she shares over seventy years of mother loss experience. Readers come away with a sense of camaraderie, insight into how to move forward, ...
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Things I Wish I Told My Mother
- A Novel
- By: Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo, James Patterson - contributor
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag. “Dr. Liz,” Laurie’s mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases. When Laurie surprises her mother with a dream vacation, it brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes. So begins Things I Wish I Told My Mother. You will wish this novel never ends.
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Enjoyable and well done!
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-23
By: Susan Patterson, and others
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Grief Is Love
- Living with Loss
- By: Marisa Renee Lee
- Narrated by: Marisa Renee Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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In Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you’ve lost the person recently or long ago—and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines.
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Self-Absorbed Politically-Correct Drivel
- By mf on 09-05-22
By: Marisa Renee Lee
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On Grief and Grieving
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
- Narrated by: David Kessler, Samantha Desz
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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On Death and Dying began as a theoretical book, an interdisciplinary study of our fear of death and our inevitable acceptance of it. It introduced the world to the now-famous five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the process of grieving and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, all based on Kübler-Ross' and Kessler's professional and personal experiences.
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If you fear death after loss, DON'T READ.
- By wrinkled sheets on 07-06-21
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and others
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The Dying Process
- Your Essential Guide to Understanding Signs, Symptoms & Changes at the End of Life
- By: Katie Duncan
- Narrated by: Erin Grassie
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Whether you are a family member searching for answers, a caregiver looking for recommendations, or a friend just trying to understand, you will receive invaluable tools and guidance to support your loved one through the last days of their life.
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amazing book
- By Sebastian Melendez on 05-25-24
By: Katie Duncan
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Grieving the Death of a Mother
- By: Harold Ivan Smith
- Narrated by: Mike Carnes
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A mother's death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother's last breath inevitably changes us. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others, Harold Ivan Smith guides listeners through their grief, from the process of dying through the acts of remembering and honoring a mother after her death.
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The Grieving Brain
- The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
- By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
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Interesting thoughts
- By GAD on 03-12-22
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- Monica Hoff
- 07-07-21
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I wish I could have found this book in the beginning of June before my mother died...I have found a bit of closure that is needed to start my new normal my new journey. I have been able to write more thoughts down and have more bubble snot moments that I have dearly needed. Thank you for sharing your story! It had helped me immensely, I am sure I'll listen again♡
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- kmomma1
- 05-26-21
She knows a thing or two
I was looking for a book that would help me explore the inevitability of my own parents’ passing, and I found it here. Although of course the author’s own journey is just that – her own – she has a way of broadening the application to many different sets of circumstances. The author’s mother died before the age of 60. My own parents are in their mid to late 80s. So, my story will be very different. I found myself questioning a few things, but often nodding and agreeing. If this is a topic you are exploring, or would be wise to explore, then this is not a bad place to start.
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- Indymomof4
- 08-20-19
Touched my heart just when I needed it
I needed this....being part of a motherless tribe is where I am and I'm struggling with my new normal but I realized the grief will never end it just changes.
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- Kenia Baia
- 09-11-20
Great book great story just too much swearing
Loved her story. As a Christian I just didn’t like the swearing, I would jump to see if there was anyone else hearing it. Overall great story and really easy to connect. Loved how she talked about pain and suffering!
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- Angela Kubisky
- 09-22-21
Enlightening and memorable book
I am so grateful for this book. My gratitude meter is way up because of the beautiful story she told. I highly recommend this book.
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- Mariela Robledo
- 07-04-20
Mourning my mami
This really helped me in my journey to focus on celebrating and being thankful for the time with my mom. I am thankful we had the relationship we had. Thank you for a great story!
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- Jasmine
- 10-13-23
Well said and very motivated
I lost my mom 5 years ago and it still feels like a nightmare. There was so much we didn’t get to do together and I pray every night that I had more time with her. But I know God needed another Angel…. But thank you for this book and some encouragement to know that you can still grieve no matter how long it’s been.
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- C. A.
- 11-19-23
It didn’t really stand out as that thought provoking
It was nice to hear similar components to my experience as my mother dies. I just felt it was superficial in many ways.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-15-21
Extremely Heartfelt
Author speaks from her heart and touched mine . A mother -daughter relationship is so special for each individual person . Thank you for showing me a little bit of my road ahead of me. Because of this book I will have more gratitude and value and treasure the moments with my mom more at the moment . This book will stay I. Your heart forever
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- Catalina
- 11-14-21
Love it
I am grateful for listening to this audio book.
I appreciate the vulnerability of the author to share her personal experience.
I felt moved and in tears. It was a blessing to come across this book.
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