A Decembered Grief: Living With Loss While Others Are Celebrating

Suffering a loss at any time of the year is difficult. and when grief becomes more intense during the holidays, weeks usually spent celebrating are now marred by frequent awkwardness, unpredictable emotions, and conflicting obligations.

Through his three decades of grief counseling, Harold Ivan Smith has gathered hundreds of coping ideas and skills, and assembled into a perceptive handbook of holiday healing gifts. The book is divided into more than 50 short chapters of insight to break through pain and find those slices of seasonal joy. Topics include how to minimize seasonal stressors, permission to say no, forgiveness, unplugging the Christmas mania, how to handle holiday traditions, and dozens of other straightforward, practical tools to navigate seasonal roadblocks.

An ideal gift. An essential read for anyone enduring the holidays with fresh grief.

Words of praise for A Decembered Grief:

"This book is an essential handbook for those who must endure holidays with fresh grief. Harold so poignantly provides a wealth of insights to flatten the pain we anticipate at the holidays."
-Barbara Johnson, author of Boomerang Joy and Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy

"Few people understand grief the way Harold Ivan Smith understands it, or have the ability to write about it with such clarity. This book is a healing gift to those whose pain seems out of place and intrusive in a season of celebration."
-Dr. Jesse C. Middendorf, general superintendent, Church of the Nazarene

"Holidays and special days are challenges, as we wander through the worlds of life and loss. Smith uses the perceptions of a skilled caregiver, wrapped up in the integrity of his own loss experiences, to bring us a good friend and a safe place in A Decembered Grief."
-Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, executive director of The World Pastoral Care Center, author and speaker

"Harold Ivan Smith is one of the Lord's true mystics. He takes us places we've never been and blesses us as we've never been blessed. This book is an absolute must."
-Charlie Shedd, author of Letters to Karen and Letters to Philip

Product Details

Format:: Book - Hard Cover
Details:: 134 pages
Author:: HAROLD IVAN SMITH, MA, ED.S., FT
Publisher:: Beacon Hill Press
Copyright:: 1/1/1999
CE Available:: No, CE credit is not available
Product Code:: SAM041650
ISBN:: 9780834118195

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HAROLD IVAN SMITH, MA, ED.S., FT

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