Grieving Moms, Finding Hope - Participant Guide
Grieving Moms, Finding Hope - Participant Guide

Author: Jacke Van Woerkom

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781732958715

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The day your child died was like a Landslide-an avalanche of emotions-that moment, frozen in time. Completely buried. Will you ever resurface again? Your child was irreplaceable and scars may remain, but with God's help you will find healing. Grieving Moms, Finding Hope is a community of women-moms who understand what you are going through and will stand with you in the grieving process. Wherever you are in the process of resurfacing, the step-by-step sessions will meet you wherever you find yourself-with the Moving Forward Journal, Discussions, and Quick Share features designed to promote the hope and healing you deserve. You are not alone!Testimonials"...Every morning I wake up and I must figure out how to live without my youngest child. The love and support I get from other Grieving Moms is an integral part of my continuous healing and being able to give back to the group keeps me moving forward, not letting grief consume me." - Carrie

Understanding Your Grief
Understanding Your Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1879651351

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Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving
The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving

Author: Debra Holland M.S., Ph.D

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1615648518

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Help and hope in times of loss. Debra Holland, a psychotherapist and specialist in grief counseling, shares her indispensable knowledge in The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving, tackling the difficult questions about how men and women, young and old, cope with loss. This accessible, inspiring, and insightful guide helps readers understand the various kinds and levels of grief, how people are trained to experience grief, the theories concerning the stages in the journey of grief, and ways to get through the pain and achieve some level of comfort. • Includes solid concrete advice to help the healing process. • Features dozens of real-life stories. • Helpful for those who counsel the grieving as well as those who've experienced loss.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1879651580

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For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

The Voices We Carry
The Voices We Carry

Author: J. S. Park

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0802498817

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Reclaim Your Headspace and Find Your One True Voice As a hospital chaplain, J.S. Park encountered hundreds of patients at the edge of life and death, listening as they urgently shared their stories, confessions, and final words. J.S. began to identify patterns in his patients’ lives—patterns he also saw in his own life. He began to see that the events and traumas we experience throughout life become deafening voices that remain within us, even when the events are far in the past. He was surprised to find that in hearing the voices of his patients, he began to identify his own voices and all the ways they could both harm and heal. In The Voices We Carry, J.S. draws from his experiences as a hospital chaplain to present the Voices Model. This model explores the four internal voices of self-doubt, pride, people-pleasing, and judgment, and the four external voices of trauma, guilt, grief, and family dynamics. He also draws from his Asian-American upbringing to examine the challenges of identity and feeling “other.” J.S. outlines how to wrestle with our voices, and even befriend them, how to find our authentic voice in a world of mixed messages, and how to empower those who are voiceless. Filled with evidence-based research, spiritual and psychological insights, and stories of patient encounters, The Voices We Carry is an inspiring memoir of unexpected growth, humor, and what matters most. For those wading through a world of clamor and noise, this is a guide to find your clear, steady voice.

The Grief Recovery Kit
The Grief Recovery Kit

Author: Tanya Kilgore

Publisher: Aepisaurus Publishing

Published: 2011-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983568803

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This interactive tool is designed to assist young people in the grieving process after loss, separation, or death, helping them navigate through the healing process into a strong and hopeful future. Filled with graphics, photos, characters, and straightforward language, the information is directed toward a younger audience but can be used by people of any age experiencing grief. The book contains four stories of different losses, allowing the griever to identify with the characters and their situations. Through practical activities, encouragement, and messages of hope, this kit empowers the griever to face painful issues head-on and promotes steps of progression, which ultimately shift valuable energy toward recovery. Blank journal pages are also provided to openly express thoughts and feelings through words and drawings.

Seasons of Hope Leader's Guide
Seasons of Hope Leader's Guide

Author: M. Donna MacLeod

Publisher: Ave Maria Press

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1646802764

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Seasons of Hope is a unique grief support program for Catholics that focuses on the spiritual side of grieving the death of a loved one. It invites those who mourn to accompany one another and to meet Christ through scripture, prayer, reflection, and simple activities that offer comfort and help to foster healing and spiritual growth. The updated Seasons of Hope Leader’s Guide and four journals can be used by a parish grief ministry. Individuals are also able to use the journals for personal reflection and prayer. You can start with any of the four journals, each of which covers a standalone “season” of six sessions that each have their own theme rooted in a passage from scripture. The Seasons of Hope program was created by author M. Donna MacLeod following the death of her daughter and has been used in thousands of parishes by tens of thousands of people since its original release in 2007. Updates to the new edition of the Leader’s Guide include: a new introduction; a new chapter about offering group sessions online; revised content and activities that meet the challenges and needs of the contemporary Church and culture; an updated resource list; access to online facilitator training materials; and information about caring for those living grief from losses such as suicide, overdose, miscarriage and other child loss, natural disasters, or homicide. The Leader’s Guide continues to include FAQs about creating and sustaining successful grief ministries in your parish. It also provides outlines and scripts for the six group sessions of each season. Those sessions include scripture, prayer, reflection, activities, and faith sharing. The Seasons of Hope Journals, which are perfect for individual and group use, have been revised with a new introduction and updated resource listings. The journals also include Bible references, reflections, prayers, and space for writing.

The Seven Intentions of Mourning
The Seven Intentions of Mourning

Author: John O'Shaughnessy

Publisher: Lectio Publishing LLC

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781943901104

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When we unite our suffering with the suffering Christ, we learn that it can be redemptive and fruitful as part of His salvific mission. The Seven Intentions of Mourning are conscious choices and a unique pathway to healing where our grief finds a meaningful expression. We discover that love endures all and good can come from bad when there is hope.

The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide
The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide

Author: Alan D Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1617223123

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When we're grieving the death of someone loved, we need the support and compassion of our fellow human beings. Grief support groups provide a wonderful opportunity for this very healing kind of support. This book is for professional or lay caregivers who want to start and lead an effective grief support group for adults. It explains how to get a group started and how to keep it running smoothly once it's underway. The group leader's roles and responsibilities are explored in detail, including communication skills, trust building, handling problems, and more.This Guide also includes twelve meeting plans that interface with the second editions of Understanding Your Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal. Each week group members read a chapter in the main text, complete a chapter in the journal, and come to group ready for you to guide them through an exploration of the content. Meeting plans include suggestions for how to open each session as well as engaging exercises and activities. A Certificate of Completion you can photocopy and give to group members in the final meeting is provided.

Braving Sorrow Together
Braving Sorrow Together

Author: Ashleigh Slater

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0802496253

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“Little did I know at the time that I’d one day look back and remember it as the beginning of what I call our ‘weeping years.’” — Ashleigh Slater We all have “weeping years,” seasons where the trials seem to come one after another. For Ashleigh and her husband, their weeping years included miscarriage, multiple job losses, feelings of betrayal, panic attacks, anti-depressants, cross-country moves, and even suicidal thoughts. Loss is a constant of life, but the intensity of those years changed Ashleigh, altering how she understood and responded to grief. This book tells her story. Braving Sorrow Together: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life is Hard explores loss and trial in a conversational, storytelling manner. It gently encourages those experiencing grief of any kind to seek comfort in God and in the “me too” of community. Ashleigh gives an honest and vulnerable account of her personal stories of loss, as well as those of her friends, with reflections from literature and Scripture sprinkled throughout. She examines the nature of grief and loss in several universal arenas, such as relationships, health, career, and the home. Anyone who ever struggles (and that’s all of us) will be able to move through trial with more wisdom, releasing anxiety and receiving the help and comfort God so bountifully provides. Readers of Braving Sorrow Together will be encouraged that they are not alone, inspired to reach out to close friends, and reminded that God—the Author of all of our stories— can be trusted through the tears. Includes an appendix with further reflections on leaning into community in difficult seasons.