The Life Challenge

The Life Challenge is a series of books designed to help people through difficult and unbearable times. Yes there is much you can do to help, simple things. Theses guides suggest the kind of attitudes words, acts etc, which are truly helpful. The life challenge offers assistance to all loved ones and members of the family during times of loss and bereavement.

Reviews of the guides:

Healing Grief: Helps you to understand the elements of bereavement, which are more or less common to all who pass through it.  Understanding these common elements and how others have dealt with them can be of great help.

Healing a Father's Grief: Written specifically for fathers and grandfathers, this guide is written from the heart to help fathers understand and work through the grief process. It takes courage to do the tough work associated with grief. This guide gives you insight into the grief process.

Children's Grief: This guide helps you as a parent or grandparent to better understand your child's needs at this difficult time.  It discusses the needs of children according to their age, and closes with more comments that apply to all.

Sibling Grief: As a parent or grandparent, when your child dies, you are overwhelmed with grief, but your other children are grieving too.  What about them? What are they thinking? What are they feeling? How could we know?  It's hard to get involved in another person's need when you are overwhelmed with grief yourself. The aim of this guide is to help you as a parent (or possibly a friend or relative) be of the most help to a grieving sibling and to help you avoid making mistakes.

Loss: This guide helps you to better understand the needs of children and teenagers who are experiencing loss.  It is mostly about loss through death.

The Loss of Your Baby: This guide has been written to help you, both right away and after you leave the hospital. This guide aims to answer some of the questions you and your family want to ask.

Is There Anything I Can Do To Help?   A helpful little flier which suggests the kinds of attitudes, words, and acts, which are truly helpful.

Surviving the Pain: Deals specifically with the aftermath of suicide, the pain and distress and practical problems experienced by those who are affected by the shock and how to carry on with life after another had chosen to end theirs.