Through a powerful book of testimony and teaching, the author explores the seasons of grief and ways in which readers can overcome pain to embrace their healing, live authentically, and gain peace. Throughout these pages you will discover how to: Gracefully make room for griefWalk through a new normal in faith Find inner peace in God's presence in the midst of shattered piecesAttain spiritual and emotional support and practical advice to apply to daily lifeWith profound wisdom and biblical reminders of God's love, this book will encourage the hearts of readers to trust God in their different moments of grief. The writer's voice of openness, honesty, and courage truly speaks to the heart of the reader. Seasons of My Grief was written to help people establish an intimate connection with the living Word, God, and the written Word of God, the Bible. This book encourages and emboldens the reader to have faith to believe God daily for a transformed tomorrow.If you've ever experienced the trauma of being rejected by people that you thought you could count on, this is a must read for you. The balance of spiritual and emotional support and practical advice offers the readers a rounded view of the journey toward healing and wholeness. Dr. Gwen's writings are a reflection of her daily quiet time of Bible reading, worshipping, and writing prayer journals. She spends a great deal of time in prayer, reading, and studying different translations of Scripture. Since the deaths of her mom and husband, Dr. Gwen has emerged as a new voice in the world of grief support and recovery. Her primary purpose for writing this book is to help others to live together with grief, grow from the experience, and find peace in God's promises.

Like life, grief has its own set of seasons. We all will eventually face them head-on, in our own time and at our own pace. No matter what our loss, we must learn how to endure and survive our seasons in order to live fully again. In a memoir that follows the metaphor of the seasons, Ernestine Rose provides an enlightening glimpse into her walk through grief after her beloved husband of forty-one years passed away in 2016. Beginning with the season of summer, Ernestine first recounts the year preceding Art’s death as he bravely battled sarcoidosis and eventually succumbed to the disease. As she leads others through the often cold and lonely seasons of autumn and winter, Ernestine details how she grieved her monumental loss and slowly learned how to live without Art. Finally as she reveals her entrance into spring, Ernestine discloses how she found renewal, hope, and faith in a new beginning while gently reminding others that we all heal in our own time. Seasons is the true story of a widow’s journey through the seasons of grief that shares words of wisdom that will help those in mourning to learn to live, love, and dance again.

WINNER OF THE ILLUMINATION BOOK AWARDS' 2021 SILVER MEDAL, QUARTER FINALIST IN THE 2020 BOOK LIFE NON-FICTION AWARDS, and FINALIST IN THE 2020 FOREWORD INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS! Love. Loss. Hope. Repeat. Life for Autumn Toelle-Jackson started out on a happy and ordinary timeline. When she entered her thirties, however, tragedy made up for lost time. Over the span of a few short years, she endured several miscarriages and the loss of her husband, a dear cousin, and child. But one small cross-section of a life doesn't do justice to the amount of love, resilience, growth, and blessings a person experiences after such titanic losses. With each new harbinger of grief, Toelle-Jackson was forced to discover another way to survive the pain. In Boldly into the Darkness, she examines all the lessons and outcomes of her life story with aching intimacy and insight. The result is a portrait of healing so complete, it transcends the traditional survivor narrative and enters new territory, a bold light shining where before was only darkness.

Loss isn’t one-size-fits-all. It comes in a million different forms—and all of them hurt. Whatever your situation, there is hope: you are not alone, you will get through this, and you can experience true joy again! An estimated two-hundred million Americans face the pain and confusion of loss every year, and most of us have no idea how to handle it. We’re thrown into the deep end of grief without a life preserver, desperately trying to stay afloat in a sea of shock, anger, frustration, heartbreak, and hopelessness. Mark Negley knows what it’s like to face the pain of loss and fight to build a new life from the ashes. Over the past thirty years, he has faced cancer, raised a special needs child, lost his beloved mother, nearly lost his wife in a car accident, and supported her through depression and mental health issues resulting from her brain injuries. Tragically, in 2016, Mark received the biggest blow of all when his wife of twenty years took her own life. Frustrated by the lack of relatable resources to help navigate his grief recovery, Mark set out to redefine the loss experience. After five years of research, in-depth interviews with loss survivors, and leading grief groups, he realized that the problem isn’t how we experience grief; the problem is that traditional models make it seem too formulaic. He found that grief recovery isn’t a linear progression from one clearly defined stage to the next; rather, it’s a series of concentric circles—like ripples in a pond—that emanate from a center point of impact. Those circles form three “interconnected” phases of recovery called Survive, Alive, and Thrive. In Survive-Alive-Thrive: Navigating the Journey from Loss to Hope to Happiness, Mark Negley takes you on a journey through his loss experiences, using his story and the stories of several others to teach his revolutionary new model of grief recovery. You don’t have to walk this difficult road alone. With the help of Mark and others, you can navigate from loss to hope and then to happiness. You don’t have to settle for survival! Set your sights higher and learn how to thrive again!

2020 Colorado Authors' League Finalist 2020 Book Excellence Awards Finalist "Kim's words, ripped from her diary, are raw, painting a picture of the excruciating anguish that so many left behind by the physical departing of a loved one express." —Duck White-Petteruti, Founder, Domus Pacis Family Respite "It will give you, the reader, permission to remember, never forget, and to slowly live from the place of heart again." —Patty L. Luckenbach, MA, DD, associate minister and author of I Only Walk On Water When It Rains The grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one is crippling. In Feeling Left Behind, author Kim Murdock relates and empathizes with that pain because she’s been there. She knows what it feels like to be woefully blindsided by music or at the grocery store, to reconsider the future alone, and to connect with a person who is no longer alive. You will relate to her chapters as she describes: • The crushing desire to freeze time and isolate yourself • The unstable phase of “firsts”― first holidays, birthdays, anniversaries • The anger and sadness at seeing other couples • The loss of self, empathy, security, and tolerance • The heartbreaking sadness of getting rid of their belongings • And so much more This is not a step-by-step guide on how to grieve. Kim outlines every detail of her experience as well as the experiences of her widow/widower friends to show you that you are not alone. You are normal. And you deserve as much time as possible to figure out how to survive in your own way. "Kim's words, ripped from her diary, are raw, painting a picture of the excruciating anguish that so many left behind by the physical departing of a loved one express." —Duck White-Petteruti, Founder, Domus Pacis Family Respite

Have you suffered loss in your life? Have you lost a loved one to death, divorce, incarceration or a break up? Have you experienced some other devastating trauma in your life, such as a global pandemic, rape, abandonment, or addictions, and now you're the one feeling lost? Having problems facing your new life after loss, a life you didn't ask for? If you answered yes to any of these questions, know you are not alone and help is available to you. In this book, Dr. Cunningham opens a conversation about overcoming grief, depression, and rejection through a memoir of her life transitions. Illuminated by her journey and those of her many clients, this book explores how the gross misconception of griefwork impacts our mental and emotional capacity to thrive in life. She heralds that unresolved grief doesn't mysteriously disappear. It lays dormant in our inner being, waiting to erupt, oftentimes causing collateral damage to others. From this book, you will receive recovery tools to unveil, excavate, and heal hidden hurt. Allow this book to serve as a resource and source of courage to take the plunge and heal, for real. If you submit to your griefwork, you will walk away with a sense of being healed from the inside out.

When Lizzie Pickering's young son Harry died in 2000, she set out on a journey to understand how she could survive her grief and learn to live with it. In When Grief Equals Love, she details the lessons she’s learned from her own experiences and those of others, who share their thoughts in this moving and tender book. Lizzie opens her diaries, written in the early years after Harry’s death, revealing her observations on the grief of his siblings and family, what helped and what hurt. Revisiting those diaries, she reflects on time passing, and what has changed for her and her family since. Lizzie looks at the myth of closure, survivor’s energy and cumulative grief – when life experiences pile up and become too much to bear. She includes interviews with bereaved friends, who share their own insights, and she provides a toolkit based on what has helped her and what she recommends to those she now helps with grief guidance. In most lives, unfortunately, grief and loss are inevitable. But living with grief can still be living. This book is for those going through grief and anyone who might need to support them. There are no easy answers, but nobody should have to cope alone.