When Grief Comes Home
A Gentle Guide for Living Through Loss While Supporting Your Child
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How to grieve, heal, and develop resilience--together
When death touches your family, you are never quite prepared. Complicating your personal pain and the need to grieve is the equally important task of helping your child understand and process the loss of a loved one. How should you answer your child's questions about death? Should you let them see you cry? How can you support their long-term resilience? How can you help preserve the memories of your loved one? How can you care for yourself while helping your children through such a difficult time?
Drawing from their personal and professional experience, Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague offer gentle wisdom as you grieve your loss alongside your child. They share insight on how to support a grieving child, how to express and honor grief, and how to move toward healing as a family. Each chapter includes reflective questions for parents, family activities, and conversation starters that lead to more meaningful connections between you and your child. Chapters end with blessings to inspire hope for your future.
As you learn to live again through loss, When Grief Comes Home will be your companion through the dark, lighting the way to your next moment, so you know you're not alone.
The Authors
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Erin Leigh Nelson
Erin Nelson is the founder and executive director of Jessica's House, a grief support center for children and families. Through the tragic losses of her husband in a mid-air collision, her mother to suicide, and her son in a car accident, Erin has learned the...
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Marilyn Days Colleen E. Montague LMFT
Colleen Montague is a licensed marriage and family therapist and director of community outreach for Jessica's House, supporting parents and their children after a death in their family.
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