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Shea Darian

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December 30, 1959

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Parenting & Family Relationships, Spirituality, Psychology

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Shea Darian, M.Div. is an award-winning author, family & grief educator, and spiritual care provider. Shea's newest book, Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change (2022 IPPY Award Winner) presents a new approach to ease and heal the grief of a lifetime. Shea is the creator of the Model of Adaptive Grieving Dynamics, published in the journal Illness, Crisis & Loss, Vol. 22 (3), 2014. Shea's books include Living Passages for the Whole Family (Nautilus Book Award), Sanctuaries of Childhood: Nurturing a Child's Spiritual Life (Foreword Book of the Year Award) and Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day. Shea lives with her spouse, Andrew, in Sun City, AZ. Visit her website at Doin ...more

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Shea Darian Re: My book, Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change (2022): "Grief is as common as rain in Pensacola, but we human…moreRe: My book, Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change (2022): "Grief is as common as rain in Pensacola, but we humans know so little about it. I aimed to change that. Working as a family and grief educator, I discovered that popular perspectives on grief are based on outdated theories and incomplete research that suggest a one-size-fits-most grieving process. So, I translated cutting-edge grief and bereavement research into real-life terms that grievers can understand and apply in their everyday lives with family members of all ages. I created a compass of the grieving process that contains four types of grieving responses that are universal to all grievers but experienced and expressed uniquely by each of us. When college students began telling me that my work on grief was one of the most useful things they had learned in all their years of going to school, I knew I was on to something. I wanted to write a book about grief that is engaging, inspiring and uplifting – a book that gives people hope."
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	Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day 3.87 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanctuaries of Childhood: Nurturing a Child's Spiritual Life 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Passages for the Whole Family: Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grandpa's Garden by Shea Darian (Goodreads Author), Karlyn Holman (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day by Darian, Shea(January 1, 2001) Paperback it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of forgiveness and healing. Not the absence of disharmony or confusion, but the presence of peace and clarity.

To make a home into a sanctuary, we must be willing to make room in our hearts for one another's limitations, as well as our gifts. For it is here in this sacred space of the home and family, so brimming with life, so full of every emotion available to our hearts, that we learn what it means to love within all the nuances of an intimate relationship.”
― Shea Darian, Sanctuaries of Childhood: Nurturing a Child's Spiritual Life

tags: anger, children, family, forgiveness, home, love, parenting, peace, relationships

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“I began to see that creating a healthy family, in which members develop the ability for mutual respect and caring, is a prerequisite for a more peaceful world. For, it is the family that creates the social fabric of our culture, as Mahatma Gandhi so poignantly illustrated, when he said:

If we are to teach real peace on this world...we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their own innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering

Sweeping floors, wiping noses, singing children to sleep...such is the work of peacemakers. Blessed be the peacemakers.”
― Shea Darian, Sanctuaries of Childhood: Nurturing a Child's Spiritual Life

tags: children, gandhi, parenting, peace, peacemakers

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