Books
Color Your Soul Whole
Color Your Soul Whole is an enchanting coloring journal that combines expressive writing with coloring for anyone with sorrow in their heart. The 76 original and thought-provoking illustrations provide a soothing outlet while the back side of each page invites journalers to express their daily thoughts and emotions through writing.
- ILLUSTRATIONS BY SUNSHINE PURCELL
- ISBN: 978-1944328245
- RELEASED: Jan. 2017
- 8.5 x 11 inch | 167 pages
Faces of Resilience
Death is a universal experience that transcends all differences, yet the unique way we process our loss is highly personal. Faces of Resilience is a stunning gallery of portraits showcasing both the commonality and individuality of a timeless journey experienced by people around the world. Each photo reveals how grief influences our emotions yet serves as a visual reminder that the power of resilience lies within us all.
- ISBN: 978-1944328719
- RELEASED: May 2019
- 8.5 x 8.5 inch | 224 pages
- $29.99
Grief Diaries: Grieving for the Living
When a relationship with someone we love is filled with challenges, comes to an end, or fails to fulfill our dreams, we embark on a fragile journey that tests our fears, our future, and even our own sense of self. Grieving for the Living shares the poignant journeys of women seeking healing and hope after divorce, estrangement, alcoholism, mental illness, and more. Foreword by Rev. Deana L. Martin.
- ISBN: 978-1944328160
- RELEASED: June 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 274 pages
- $14.95
Grief Diaries: Hit by Impaired Driver
Grief Diaries: Hit by Impaired Driver offers 19 compelling true stories about what it’s like to be hit by a drunk, drugged, distracted, or impaired driver. Offering candid insight into how they coped with the aftermath, each story reveals a harsh glimpse into what happens when bystanders ignore the obvious and refuse to take the keys from an impaired driver.
- ISBN: 978-1-944328-49-8
- RELEASED: June 1, 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 308 pages
- Retail: $15.95
Grief Diaries: How to Help the Newly Bereaved
When someone you know loses someone they love, what do you say? What can you do? How to Help the Newly Bereaved is a guide full of useful tips compiled by 22 women in the bereavement field who answer pivotal questions about what to say, what to do, and what not to say to someone facing loss. Foreword by Thomas Jack Barnette, founder of American International Television.
- ISBN: 978-1944328092
- RELEASED: April 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 296 pages
- $15.95
Grief Diaries: Poetry, Prose & More
Poetry & Prose and More is a heartfelt collection of expressive writing by 18 women as they journey through different struggles including death and loss, mental illness, and more. Foreword by poetry therapy practitioner Dianna Vagianos Armentrout. Coauthored by author and speaker Mary Potter Kenyon and Marilyn Rollins.
- ISBN: 978-1944328559
- RELEASED: Dec. 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 408 pages
- $16.95
Grief Diaries: Project Cold Case
Grief Diaries: Project Cold Case is a crime anthology featuring the stories of 22 active cold cases. Readers are taken inside the chilling aftermath of unsolved kidnappings and murder, revealing how surviving loved ones are forced to travel down a road that torments the already tormented mind, facing fresh heartache at every turn. Coauthored by Ryan Backmann, founder of the national nonprofit Project Cold Case.
- ISBN: 978-1944328474
- RELEASED: Nov. 16, 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 426 PAGES
- MSRP: $16.95
Grief Diaries: Shattered
Desiring to raise awareness, Shattered features the stories by members of AVIDD who expose the raw yet powerful truth about the dangers of impaired driving. Each writer narrates the days leading up to—and the haunting life beyond—the devastating moment their lives were shattered by an impaired driver’s choice to get behind the wheel with irreversible consequences.
- ISBN: 978-1944328375
- RELEASED: Nov. 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 494 pages
- $18.95
Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss by Cancer
Over 600,000 Americans die from cancer every year, leaving behind loved ones with heavy hearts. Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Surviving Loss by Cancer offers inspiring real-life stories of grievers who take us on their own poignant journey through losing someone they love to cancer. Filled with grit, compassion and collateral blessings, the stories offer readers wisdom to lean on and learn from, help them feel less alone, and offer hope that love truly lives forever in our hearts.
- ISBN: 978-1944328993
- RELEASED: Sept. 2018
- 6 x 9 inch | 294 pages
- MSRP $15.95
Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss by Homicide
Surviving Loss by Homicide shares personal accounts of coping with a violent tragedy, and sheds insight into the strength needed to stay afloat in the aftermath of intense heartache and rollercoaster of emotions ranging from shock, anger, sadness and disbelief to healing and hope. Foreword by radio host Lady Justice.
- ISBN: 978-1944328146
- RELEASED: June 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 240 pages
- MSRP $15.95
Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss by Impaired Driving
A silver medalist in the 2016 USA Best Book Awards, Loss by Impaired Driving examines the journeys of 17 men and women who lost one or more loved ones to a drunk, drugged or impaired driver. A must read for young, new drivers and for AA groups. Foreword by Candace Lightner, founder of MADD.
- ISBN: 978-1944328269
- RELEASED: June 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 330 pages
- MSRP: $15.95
Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss by Overdose
Statisticians keep count. Politicians pass laws. Police are overwhelmed. Preachers condemn. Doctors medicate. Business looks at the bottom line. And academia is stymied. Yet the flood of heartache and sorrow continues.
Drugs are rampant in today’s world, yet nobody has answers. We only have stories. Our stories. The stories of our intelligent, kind and promising loved ones who fell victim to a villain disguised as pills, capsules, liquids, and powders that overpowered their logic, willpower, and survival instinct.
Surviving Loss by Overdose is a compilation of stories by 12 people who answered 18 questions about losing a loved one to overdose in hopes of raising awareness, educating, and inviting society to offer survivors the compassion that’s often denied in a stigmatized death.
According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, there were over 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017, an average of 192 each day in the U.S. According to the National Institutes of Health, stigma related to drug use may increase overdose risk, and the effectiveness of overdose prevention may be improved by reducing discrimination against people who use drugs.
“An addict carries the stigmatized visual of someone who had no home and lived on the fringe of society. Emily always had a roof over her head, food in her stomach, clean clothes to wear, and a family who loved her,” states Kimberly Calais, whose 23-year-old daughter died from an overdose in 2016. “People from every walk of life seem to have the opinion that addicts are just dirty losers. My daughter was once just like your little girl.”
“The stigma surrounding substance abuse is killing our loved ones and preventing them from getting treatment. We view drug addicts as criminals and regard jail time as treatment,” states coauthor Whitney O’Brien, whose 23-year-old brother died from an overdose in 2016. “There needs to be change in this country. The stories shared in this book can and will serve a purpose.”
- ISBN: 978-1950712076
- RELEASED: Nov. 2019
- 6 x 9 inch | 386 pages
- MSRP $16.95
