2011
Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
124 min
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Losing a parent is among the most emotionally difficult and universal of human experiences. Most people will experience the loss of their mother or father in their lifetime.
Although a mother’s mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic.
Readers discuss how losing a parent changed their lives and continues to affect them.
Delayed grief is sometimes triggered by an event later in life, experts say.
The death of your parent, at any age, is a huge loss. BBC Three spoke to eight people about their experience of bereavement at a young age, and how despite the horror, heartache and absence, there are things they’re still grateful for.
The Art of Losing offers a human connection when we are grieving. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning.
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Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.
The death of a parent can send shock waves through your self-perception and reposition the mental space you occupy on the planet. The grief can be life changing.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
This conversation was so raw and tender—truly a wonderful display of human interaction.