16 must-read psychology books like Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By: David Kessler

4.43

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth K…

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1. The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses

By: John W. James , Russell Friedman

4.12

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of … read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

By: Jerry Sittser

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss with a new preface and epilogue. Loss… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution."

-Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

"I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am."

-Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

"The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise."

-Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

"But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft…"

-Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

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3. On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Written by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler--Ross this book explores the five stages of death: denial and isola… read more

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  • psychology
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

"We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

"Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

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4. You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death

By: Louise L. Hay , David Kessler

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David … read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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5. Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

By: Julia Samuel

4.00

Format: 199 pages,

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly … read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , David Kessler

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ten years after the death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book co… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help

7. Life Lessons

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , David Kessler

3.73

Format: 32 pages,

After experiencing a paralyzing stroke in 1995 and facing her own mortality, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross … read more

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8. Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

By: Martha Whitmore Hickman

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss For those who have suffered the loss of a loved o… read more

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9. A Grief Observed

By: C.S. Lewis

4.22

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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10. I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

By: Clare Mackintosh

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction d… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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11. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

By: Joanne Cacciatore

4.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

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12. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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13. How to Live When a Loved One Dies: Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.27

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

This comforting and accessible Zen mindfulness guide offers short affirmations and in-depth healing… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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14. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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15. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

By: Jayson Greene

4.17

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side o… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, s…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empath…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

Cover of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

16. Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By: David Kessler

4.43

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth K… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • social work
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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17. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

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18. So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

By: Dina Gachman

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author an… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss by Gina Moffa

19. Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

By: Gina Moffa

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Licensed grief and trauma therapist Gina Moffa illuminates a non-linear path through grief, with to… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

20. Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief—and lear… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 best-selling audiobook books like Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

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Transform Your Habits

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Julia Samuel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

Clare Mackintosh

4.56

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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

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Transform Your Habits

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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The Hilarious World of Depression

John Moe

4.17

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Ramani Durvasula

4.58

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