The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New
This practical book is for people who are grieving, for people who want to support them as they undertake the painful journey of grief, and for anyone who wants to reflect on their own experiences of loss.

When Alister asked Isobel, whose husband had died a few years before, what would have helped her most then, her response was immediate. 'Someone who would walk with me. Not people who would talk at me and give me answers, but simply listen to me and walk with me.' The grief walk.

Grieving and loss are universal experiences, but how you experience grief is unique to you. In his ministry, Alister has found that models of the stages of grief are unhelpful, as is the idea of closure. Instead, he gives you permission to work through your grief in the ways, and at the times, that are helpful to you.

Alister explores disenfranchised grief that occurs when we are denied the right to grieve and our loss isn't recognised.

Our lives are marked by countless losses and we all carry grief about many losses in our life. If we embrace our grief, we can journey on to something new and find fresh hope.

The book provides a link to download a free PDF Study Guide for The Grief Walk, that can be use by individuals or small groups..

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The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New
This practical book is for people who are grieving, for people who want to support them as they undertake the painful journey of grief, and for anyone who wants to reflect on their own experiences of loss.

When Alister asked Isobel, whose husband had died a few years before, what would have helped her most then, her response was immediate. 'Someone who would walk with me. Not people who would talk at me and give me answers, but simply listen to me and walk with me.' The grief walk.

Grieving and loss are universal experiences, but how you experience grief is unique to you. In his ministry, Alister has found that models of the stages of grief are unhelpful, as is the idea of closure. Instead, he gives you permission to work through your grief in the ways, and at the times, that are helpful to you.

Alister explores disenfranchised grief that occurs when we are denied the right to grieve and our loss isn't recognised.

Our lives are marked by countless losses and we all carry grief about many losses in our life. If we embrace our grief, we can journey on to something new and find fresh hope.

The book provides a link to download a free PDF Study Guide for The Grief Walk, that can be use by individuals or small groups..

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The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New

The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New

by Alister G Hendery
The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New

The Grief Walk: Losing, Grieving, and Journeying on to Something New

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Overview

This practical book is for people who are grieving, for people who want to support them as they undertake the painful journey of grief, and for anyone who wants to reflect on their own experiences of loss.

When Alister asked Isobel, whose husband had died a few years before, what would have helped her most then, her response was immediate. 'Someone who would walk with me. Not people who would talk at me and give me answers, but simply listen to me and walk with me.' The grief walk.

Grieving and loss are universal experiences, but how you experience grief is unique to you. In his ministry, Alister has found that models of the stages of grief are unhelpful, as is the idea of closure. Instead, he gives you permission to work through your grief in the ways, and at the times, that are helpful to you.

Alister explores disenfranchised grief that occurs when we are denied the right to grieve and our loss isn't recognised.

Our lives are marked by countless losses and we all carry grief about many losses in our life. If we embrace our grief, we can journey on to something new and find fresh hope.

The book provides a link to download a free PDF Study Guide for The Grief Walk, that can be use by individuals or small groups..


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781988572413
Publisher: Philip Garside Publishing Limited
Publication date: 05/27/2020
Pages: 218
Sales rank: 686,475
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Alister Hendery is an Anglican priest in Aotearoa New Zealand. Loss and grief have been a special focus of his ministry for the past 40 years. He has served as a parish priest, educator, counsellor, and funeral celebrant. These days, as well as exploring with others what loss and grief can mean for us, he ministers with faith communities in times of change. He is the author of Earthed in Hope: Dying, Death and Funerals, also from Philip Garside Publishing Ltd.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

How I use certain Words

Authors who have Influenced Me

1 - Introduction

2 - Our Lives are Laden with Losses

Acknowledging our Losses

Disenfranchised Losses and Griefs

3 - Experiences of Disenfranchised Loss and Grief

Grieving for Those Still Living

Living Loss and Disability

Relational Loss - Divorce and Dissolution

Relational Loss - Ending of a Romantic Relationship

Unrecognised Relationships

The Loss of a Companion Animal

Material Losses

Infertility and Childlessness

Grief in Foster Care

The Losses of Miscarriage and Stillbirth

Loss from Medical Termination

Loss of Employment

Discovering Disenfranchisement

4 - Understandings and Misunderstandings about Grief

Our Loss and Grief is Unique - so Forget the Rules

There's No 'One Size Fits All' - so Forget Stages in Grief

We Wax and Wane - so it's Okay to Retreat from Time to Time

A Continual Presence Which can Ambush us - so Forget the Timeline

Continuing Bonds - So Forget about Having to Let Go

Grief Doesn't get Closed Off - so Forget about Closure

Our Life has Changed - so Forget the idea of Returning to Normal

We Grieve in Our Own Way - so Forget the Stereotypes

5 - Experiencing Grief

More than Sadness

Grief Isolates

Experiencing Grief in our Body

Experiencing Grief in our Emotions

Experiencing Grief in our Thinking and Mental processes

Experiencing Grief in our Behaviour

Experiencing Grief in our Spirituality

Secondary Losses and Loss of Identity

When do we Need Professional Interventions?

6 - What do I say? What can I do?

Sit Beside me on my Mourning Bench

Some Dos and Don'ts

Do Talk About the Loss

It's about Relationships

Caring Companionship

Silence, Tears, and Empathy

7 - Grief is about Love and Attachment

Grief - the Price of Love

Love as Attachment

A Secure Base

8 - God and our Grief - But what Kind of God?

Our Vulnerable God

Good News Stories of Vulnerability, Loss, and Grief

Becoming Vulnerable - Becoming like God

Suffering Love that is With Us

Discarding the Great Vacuum Cleaner in the Sky

Jesus Began to Weep

9 - Words for our Grief - A Gift from the Psalms

David's Dirge

Faith Incorporating Grief

My One Companion is Darkness

Challenging a Cover-up

10 - Walking with Job - A Story of Losing and Grieving

The Scene is Set - Job 1:1 - 2:10

Job's Friends - Job 2:11-13

What the Friends got Right

Sitting Shiva

What the Friends got Wrong

Job's Wife

What Job Needed - Giving Voice to his Grief

Anger and the Need to Blame

Job's Questioning

Faith Containing Tensions

The Climax - Job 38-41

Our Faith may be Challenged and Changed

11 - The Easter Walk

Waiting in the Darkness and the Absence

Gradual, Imperceptible Resurrection

12 - A Choice - Do we go Through the Pain or Around it?

Stewards of our Pain

A Great Freedom - How do we Respond?

13 - Our Search for Meaning after Loss

Moving Grief from a Noun to a Verb

What is Meaning?

Reconstructing our Meaning after Loss

Meaning in Love

Living in a Changed World

14 - Hope Emerges

Hopes and Goals

Hope Isn't a Magic Potion

Our Sustaining Hope: If God is for us

Selected Bibliography

Also by Alister G. Hendery from Philip Garside Publishing Ltd

About this Book and the Author

Index

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