Footsteps of Hope (eBook)

Mileposts to Guide Your Journey Through the Grief of Child Loss

Sara Faith Nelson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
318 Seiten
Footsteps of Hope (Verlag)
978-1-64746-070-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Grief is a journey through a fearful, unknown, surreal landscape, encountering intense emotions, physical maladies, and deep spiritual questions incomparable to anything we've likely encountered before. Grief journeys, especially in the complicated grief of child loss, are not a neat, linear path of progressing through predictable stages. Instead, it's a roller coaster ride of twists and turns and wild loop-de-loops that may be cyclical and repetitive.The unexpected loss of her daughter and only child launched Sara Nelson on an unwanted journey into the darkness of grief. She discovered how easily the pain, purposelessness, and loss of a way of life that could never be recovered can pull a person into a quagmire of despair. Her path to recovery began with recognizing the importance of perspective, the power of positive choices, and finding personalized therapeutic strategies for difficult days. She reveals footsteps to guide readers through the dark maze of their own grief journey, learning to manage the special challenges of holidays, birthdays, and death anniversaries, and discovering peace in the middle of the mystery of unresolved questions.Sara tells her story with honesty and raw vulnerability as she worked through the emotional, physical, and spiritual complexities of grief. She reveals footsteps to guide readers through the dark maze of their own grief journey to renewed light, life, and hope.

Inhalt

 

1. Roads and Roller Coasters

2. The Ebb and Flow of Grief

3. Life Goes On

4. Perspective

5. Every Tear a Seed 

6. I Choose Life

7. Good Days and Bad Days

8. My Refuge and Strength

9. Not Alone in My Troubles

10. Life Goes On: A Reminder

11. Anger

12. Poisonous Pity

13. From Wrestling to Resolution

14. Physical Side Effects of Grief

15. Sometimes I Need to Stop Fighting So Hard

16. Healing for an Introvert’s Soul

17. Hope, Identity, and Significance

18. Hope, Purpose, and a Future

19. What Is a New Normal?

20. My Grief Journey, Four Months In

21. God’s Presence Quiets My Fears

22. Sometimes Bad News Comes

23. What to Do about Mother’s Day and Father’s Day

24. God Surrounds Me with His Love

25. Pressing On 

26. Permission to Enjoy Things Again

27. Reflections on Old and New

28. The Mention of Her Name

29. At the Six-Month Milepost

30. Building Bridges on the Journey

31. Miles to Go Before I Sleep

32. Heaven Is for Real

33. My Concept of Heaven and How It’s Changed

34. Living in a World without Her

35. Hope of Heaven 

36. Holiday Survival

37. One Christmas at a Time

38. Mileposts and Toll Roads

39. That Day

40. Finding Normal is Like Searching for Never-Never Land

41. Stuck in the Tar Pit of Grief

42. Volcanoes

43. Staying Balanced on the Teeter-Totter of Grief

44. Serenity Prayer

45. Convalescing 

46. Anesthetics

47. Letting Go

48. The Half-Full Glass

49. My Grief Journey at Eighteen Months

50. Transitions  

51. Picking Up the Pieces One by One

52. What No One Ever Told Me about Grief

53. Soaring on Eagle’s Wings

54. The Truth that Gives Hope

55. Tapestry 

56. Being Thankful Even in Grief

57. Accepting the Bittersweet

58. Hope Springs Eternal

59. Making the Most of the Dash

60. Reflections on the Second Anniversary of Jeanette’s Heaven-Going 

61. Shutting the Door on Fear

62. Pesky Emotions

63. I Press On

64. When Joy Becomes Our Strength

65. Surfing Mother’s Day

66. Broken but Still Smiling

67. Recalculating

68. What’s Next, Papa?

69. Heavenly Perspective

70. WWJD?

71. Canyons

72. What to Do with Christmas When the Whole World Is Awry

73. Tunnels

74. Another Birthday in Heaven

75. Another Anniversary of that Day

76. Life Is a Bouncy House

77. Unshakeable

78. Bereaved Mother’s Day

79. What I Want for Mother’s Day

80. No One to Call Me Grandma

81. Wash, Rinse, Repeat

82. The Will to Live

83. Festivus—The Griever’s Edition

84. Secrets to Survival

85. Let the Weak Say “I Am Strong”

86. Asking Why

87. How Can I Possibly Believe God is Good?

88. Earthbound Grief, Heaven-Bound Glory

89. Grief Support Groups

90. Life’s Defining Moments

Footsteps to Survive and Thrive 

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2020
• Vorwort: Laura Diehl
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Schlagworte: Emotions • Grief • Grief journeys • Heaven • honest • Hope • Life • Loss of a child • Loss so deep • Pain • path to healing • Perspective • Positive • Therapeutic Strategies
• ISBN-10: 1-64746-070-0 / 1647460700
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64746-070-9 / 9781647460709