Grief: Living at Peace with Loss

Hope for the Heart

by June Hunt

How do you cope when a deep or tragic loss leaves you feeling empty, angry, or alone? Coping with the loss of a loved one or any type of loss requires healing, and healing is a journey. While there are no shortcuts through the stages of grief, God promises not to leave you in the valley of despair. June Hunt has counseled those who grieve for over 25 years, and this book will gently and truthfully lead you through the stages of grief and into joy once again.There are all types of grief; from the normal expression you feel when something tragic and unexpected happens, such as the loss of a loved one, to chronic grief and repressed grief. This Christian book will help you determine what may have caused grief in your life and help you on the steps to recovery. Learn what ‚"grief work‚" is and how it can help you commit to working through difficult grief and the stress that goes along with it. The effects of not experiencing healthy grief work may result in becoming isolated, insulated, inverted, immortalized, and denying your grief altogether. In the section titled, "Steps to Solution," June Hunt gives you practical advice on how •Navigate through the Stages of Grief•Resolve Grief Caused by True Guilt•Move from Crisis to Contentment•Let Go, Say Goodbye, and Find Peace•Encourage Others to Overcome LossAs you place your seasons of sorrow in God's hands, He promises to take you from sadness to strength, from pain to peace, and from darkness to the dawn of a new day. Experience God's peace for today and His hope for a vibrant, happy tomorrow. Look for all 25 titles in the Hope For The Heart Biblical Counseling Library. These mini-books are for people who seek freedom from codependency, anger, conflict, verbal and emotional abuse, depression, or other problems.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

JUNE HUNT is founder of Hope for the Heart, a worldwide biblical counseling ministry, and hosts the award-winning radio program by the same name. Her numerous books include Seeing Yourself Through God’s Eyes, Healing the Hurting Heart, Bonding with Your Teen through Boundaries, and Hope for Your Heart.

Reviews

[Marcus Goncalves · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, this book can be very helpful to those going through grief and morning. It provides good insights on what to expect, what’s normal, or not. But the author does not provide much details for someone going through deep grief, such as the list of a child, spouse, etc. Granted, I don’t think this was the authors intent.

[Linda Callahan · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son died and I thought this book was excellent. It gave many hands on ways to deal with grief. In fact it's so good I am ordering more to give away to those in loss.

[Anna Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you

Thank you for writing a beautiful book. This will help me immensely with my own work with families experiencing grief and trauma.

[Kultured Khun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just what I needed to hear. So timely as well!

[Ari · Rating 2 out of 5]

My grandmother passed last year and a non-profit organization provided this and a few other books to my mother to help deal with the grief.

My mother had no intentions of reading these books, so I took it upon myself to read through them to see if I would gain anything of value from them; maybe some healthy coping mechanisms or a better understanding of myself following the loss of my grandmother.

This book does contain some rather good tips, but nothing I would need to utilize as it is stuff I learned in my field of study already.

What made me dislike this book was the weird intersection of psychological/therapeutic tasks and religion. The combination wasn't the issue, but the lack of proper blending of the concepts. One minute it is quoting scriptures then the next it is like "Now make a list of XYZ" and it always felt like the book was fighting against itself.

Also, there was a bit of repetition and some things seemed to be in the book just to fill pages and get it as close to 100 pages as possible.

[Lana · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I lost my son on July 11, 2016 a very well meaning lady with very religious outpouring gave me this book. I found this book to be very inadequate for grief over the loss of a child but a very good book for types of grief: like the loss of a job, or home. But it lacked everything necessary for the lack of loss of a loved one.