For the author, Ann Rita Frazier, living with the loss of her husband began a journey down a grieving path she would never travel by choice. As she processed her loss, she found hidden treasures in God’s Word to direct her down the path to healing. This ten-week Bible study of her journey will lead you through grieving losses in your own life. The Restoring Hope Bible study opens with a loss but ends with hope for the future. In this journey, you will begin with the initial place of shock, proceed through the “valley of the shadow of death,” and arrive in the heights of healing and restoration. This study has scriptures, testimony, prayers, questions for reflection, and life application with room for responses within each chapter. This approach is an interactive way of learning and healing through meditation on God’s Word by facing pointed questions to journal and pray through. The encouragement you will receive from this study is knowing that God has healing and restoration in your future. This ten-week course directs the reader to the Hope Giver, Jesus, while waiting for miracles of healing and restoration. As you accept the new way forward in your life, God will position you to use your testimony as an overcomer to reach out to others still struggling with losses in their lives.

Faye writes from her personal perception using her thoughts, feelings, and observations as she struggled with the personality and behavior changes following a traumatic brain injury. She related to this time a walking through Shadowland, a place of ashes. Faye tells how her hope was restored by a personal word from God, which allowed her to accept her new personality and the changed behavior, allowing her to take the new road map for her life, forging ahead with courage, because she is a survivor and knows that the journey is worth taking. Faye lives in Mobile, Alabama. She is a 1980 graduate of Troy University School of Nursing, Montgomery Campus. She is a member of the Mobile Writers Guild, the Alabama State Poetry Society, and a former member of the National Associate of American Pen Women, Mobile Branch ,as Letters, serving several times as the chapters chaplain. Faye has been published in The Journal of Christian Nursing, several anthologies, and different newsletters pertaining to Traumatic Brain Injury and relating emotional problems. She is a guest writer at TrustinginJesus.com. In her spare time, she enjoys playing Mexican train dominoes, cards, Chinese mahjongg, designing and making quilts, ballroom and line dancing, reading mysteries and historical fiction.

Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve as he explains that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing journey. He upends the dominant but incorrect view that grief proceeds by stages, and helps us realize that our experiences following a death are far more individual and much less predictable than the conventional "five stages" model would have us believe. Doka also explains how to cope with disenfranchised grief, not so readily recognized or supported by society, such as the death of ex-spouses, the end of a friendship, job loss, or infertility.

When adults face a significant loss, they must grapple with their own profound grief, and they are often called upon to nurture and support their grieving children. This is the first book to address this very common dual grieving challenge. As a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-nine years, Robert Zucker can offer parents and other concerned readers important insights into managing their own grief while supporting their grieving children. He offers: • Understanding how adults and children grieve differently • Learning how to explain the meaning of death to children • Knowing what to do when grief gets complicated • Deciding when they and/or their child need counseling • Helping their family members stay connected with loved ones even after death. For the countless parents who have tried blocking out their own grief in order to be available to their child, Robert Zucker provides a measure of comfort. This book will reassure readers that a grieving parent can still be an effective parent.

The emotional responses to death are unpredictable and individual, with denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance all natural stages of the grief cycle. Mindfulness & The Journey of Bereavement explores the universal, lifechanging journey of grief and offers insight into how we can understand our feelings, nourish our needs, and face the future positively, with hope. Bereavement volunteer Peter Bridgewater shares therapeutic tools into how the practice of mindfulness can develop a conscious awareness of life and death. With frank personal and professional anecdotes, he helps us to navigate the trauma of loss with clarity and wisdom.

In Grief Set Free, Alvin Johnson, father, husband, Episcopal priest, explores the shattered fragments of his own soul, a soul crushed by grief following the death of his son Nicholas at age seven. Fr. Johnson asks readers to explore the many pathways of human suffering, sorrow, and restoration. No area of inquiry is off limits as Fr. Johnson plows into the substantial questions of life and faith. In an impatient world with a low threshold for pain, Grief Set Free takes us on a courageous ride through the desperate world of the valley of the shadow of death and towards a life of wild hope and sustaining joy.

For the author, Ann Rita Frazier, living with the loss of her husband began a journey down a grieving path she would never travel by choice. As she processed her loss, she found hidden treasures in God's Word to direct her down the path to healing. This ten-week Bible study of her journey will lead you through grieving losses in your own life. The Restoring Hope Bible study opens with a loss but ends with hope for the future. In this journey, you will begin with the initial place of shock, proceed through the "valley of the shadow of death," and arrive in the heights of healing and restoration. This study has scriptures, testimony, prayers, questions for reflection, and life application with room for responses within each chapter. This approach is an interactive way of learning and healing through meditation on God's Word by facing pointed questions to journal and pray through. The encouragement you will receive from this study is knowing that God has healing and restoration in your future. This ten-week course directs the reader to the Hope Giver, Jesus, while waiting for miracles of healing and restoration. As you accept the new way forward in your life, God will position you to use your testimony as an overcomer to reach out to others still struggling with losses in their lives.

Hope for Widows offers you connections in your grief, guiding you to see hope, grace, and camaraderie on an unfamiliar path. With personal reflections, questions, and expressions of gratitude, join Marilyn Nutter in recognizing God’s faithful presence in details and unusual places. The 65 readings apply Scripture and relevant quotes to grief and mourning and look with transparency at how widowhood dramatically changes a woman’s life.

Practical and straightforward, yet warm and compassionate, Grieving with Hope clarifies the popular misconception that people move through stages of grief. This will be an encouragement to many, as grieving people often think something is wrong with them when their grief doesn't proceed neatly through stages. The reality is that grieving people jump back and forth between different emotions, sometimes wrestling with multiple emotions at once. This book is packed with short, biblically based, gospel-centered, topical chapters addressing the issues grieving people face but are often hesitant to mention to others. It helps readers accurately interpret the message their emotions are sending them and gently guides them to determine whether they're grieving in a way that leads to hope and ultimate healing. Developed from interviews with over 30 well-respected Christian counselors, teachers, and authors, as well as numerous personal testimonies, Grieving with Hope helps the bereaved discover how hope and peace are available amidst their heartache and pain.

Your heart grieves. The tears won’t stop. You sense bitterness and anger growing in you as you struggle between grief and trying to trust God through this part of your journey. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to find the delicate balance between your grief and faith in God for the future. It is difficult to understand God’s purpose in the death of a child. You doubt you will ever find peace, comfort, or understanding. Author Maegan Roper, who as walked this dark road, shares the light of hope she received from Christ as He restored her and brought her from grief to joy. Weaving portions of her own personal story with words of encouragement and Scripture, you’ll begin to feel restored as you experience the same peace and understanding she found on her journey from loss to hope