Your Memory Lives On

“A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell’s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly—those left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butterfly, or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die, but My Memory Lives On and, together with Mankell’s narrative, they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS. Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.

A collection of children's writings about bereavement with exercises to aid children in sharing their feelings.

The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe, but in the Third World it is a different story. There is a devestating lack of resources for medicine and for education. When parents die at a young age, children are left behind with no-one to teach them how to avoid the same fate, and so the cycle continues. Memory Books could prove to be the most important documents in our time in answer to this crisis. When the official reports have been filed away, these slim volumes, memories recorded by those who died too soon, will remain. Through a combination of words and drawings, they can have a legacy, a hope that future generations may not suffer the same heartbreaking fate. Henning Mankell is not a public figure in the way politicians are, but he has achieved cult success with his Kurt Wallander novels and is noted for the social and moral questions raised by his fiction. He devotes much of his time to work with Aids charities. I Die But the Memory Lives on is a fable illustrating the importance of books as a means of education, of preserving memories and of sharing life. In the midst of death and suffering, a young girl plants a tree. She nurtures it as a fragment of life that will grow and survive and, like the Memory Books, outlive this global crisis. Mankell, by highlighting and humanising this catastrophe, proposes a way to help.

Gilbert offers 85 suggestions for crafts, celebrations, writing exercises, and other activities you can do to memorialize a deceased loved one.

Coping with the loss of someone you love is one of life's biggest challenges. It is normal to feel varying degrees of emotional suffering when you lose someone special. You may feel lost and every day may feel like a challenge to continue on. You are likely to go through different experiences and emotions at different stages of the grieving process and a positive way to deal with the emotional stress is to work through your thoughts and get your feelings down on paper. This gentle thought provoking grieving and healing workbook allows you to explore your feelings as each day passes. In this journal you will find pages where you can express yourself freely and honour the memory of your special person Let this writing journal accompany you through your grieving process and help you feel emotionally lighter and offer hope: Supportive pages that give you a safe space to grieve and heal by allowing gratitude and hope to coexist Helpful prompts to help you understand your emotions and find peace Journal daily to help you move through life after loss, one day at a time Ideal gift for friends and family who are experiencing grief and loss after the death of a loved one Writing exercises to reflect on special moments you shared with your loved one and bring back beautiful memories A mix of guided prompts and blank lined pages so you can express yourself, allowing you to put pen to paper lay all of your memories, thoughts, blessings and emotions out before you so you can release the pain The prompts will gently guide you through the grieving process you will find coping with loss more manageable This journal is for you if you are: Suffering from loss and grieving for a partner, husband, wife, parent, friend, child or sibling Struggling to move on after losing someone you love Feeling overwhelmed due to the death of a family member or friend Need a healthy outlet and safe space to grieve and overcome sadness Trying to find hope after grief A truly helpful grief journal book to help you heal after the loss of a loved one

The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories. It is appropriate for scholars and researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology, memory, infancy, and human development.

This book tells You one of the stories from the now-occupied city of Mariupol. Inside are memories of the events, lots of different thoughts. It was our decision, to stay at home, and the experiences we have had were nothing other than the consequences to that very choice. I wish it would not hurt so much. My burning memory.

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being.