Books
GRIEF: Climb Toward Understanding
by Phyllis Davies
Widely used. Day-by-day guidelines practically combine with a magnetic story. Grievers are gently led on a journey into their own feelings and healing. Readers climb with the author along the trail of her walk into peace and new meaning in life after the death of two children, one as a baby, and later, her thirteen-year-old son in a commercial mid-air plane crash.
320 pages, 70 illustrations, paperback, four-color cover,
5th edition expanded
$19.95 ISBN 0-941343-39-1
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Specialists and readers are saying:
"When my brother was murdered, we used GRIEF, Climb Toward Understanding.
The guidelines and other resources helped us. It gave us memorial
service ideas. Later, the story helped my family as we climbed
through the mountains of anger and grief to a more peaceful place."
- Delia Lancaster
"These beautifully written self-help books should be available in all libraries."
-
Judith Harding,
Coordinator of Resources,
National Center for Death Education
"GRIEF: Climb Toward Understanding helped me when my beloved
dog died. Again later, I found it surprisingly helpful during
an unexpected divorce. I once again turned to it when I lost my
hearing."
- Eve Adamson
"The resources and
guidelines section as well as the healing qualities of this book
have been invaluable tools to my patients, to my students and
to me personally."
- John J. Frey, M.D., Professor
and Chair,
Department of Family Medicine,
University of Wisconsin - Madison

When
Someone Is Seriously Ill: What You Can Do
by Phyllis Davies
Day-by-day "can-do lists" guide you in ways of being truly supportive
of a friend or loved one.
32 pages, 12 illustrations, paperback, four-color
cover
$8.00 ISBN 0-941343-31-6
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What specialists and readers say:
"Wonderful and wise words. A wealth of information ... for
the recruitment and training of volunteers for hospitals, home
health agencies, hospices, support groups and religious communities."
- The Rev. Richard B. Gilbert, D.Min., BCC
Executive Director, The World Pastoral Care Center
When
Someone Dies: What You Can Do (out of stock)
by Phyllis Davies
These lists are day-by-day guidelines to being memorably helpful
to friends or loved ones.
48 pages, 12 illustrations, paperback, four-color
cover
$9.00 ISBN 0-941343-32-4
What specialists say:
"There are many books on grief, and the seriously and terminally
ill, but they generally seem to fall into one of two categories,
books for the professional and then the more personal, first-person
oriented, for those on that journey. Rare and special are the
books that bring both groups together in a way that benefits both
and serves to bring both books together. ...Gifted author Phyllis
Davies, from her own integration of “head and heart”, accomplishes
that noble and needed goal."
- The Rev. Richard B. Gilbert, D.Min., BCC
Executive Director, The World Pastoral Care Center
Recommended by
Centre for Living with Dying
and used at
National Death and Bereavement Education Library