Prayers of Honoring Grief

by Pixie Lighthorse

Prayers of Honoring Grief is the third book in Pixie Lighthorse’s prayer trilogy. This book challenges our cultural orientation towards “getting over” loss on a convenient schedule. It asks us to take the time to honor our feelings, so that we may express them and move them through our bodies. To make time and space for fully experiencing grief. These prayers are a reminder of our connection to something greater than ourselves, which holds us while we are healing.There is a void left in our culture by the absence of death rituals or rites of grieving, and this book is a lifeline for those coping with that void. Pixie encourages us to see grief as a natural, normal part of as a process for working with deep, embodied wisdom to heal after loss. In her words, we can “honor our unfulfilled dreams and desires, our missed opportunities for love, and the depths of our pain, both individual and collective. We can lift, sing and pray the lost parts of ourselves back home.”With the deep assurance of lived experience, Pixie guides us through the pains and discomforts, the moments of clarity, and the potential for aliveness that arises when we make space in our lives to grieve our losses.-28 prayers, 7 for each cardinal direction.-Space to the left of each prayer to journal, collage, and draw-Journal prompts at the end of each section and space to write-Foreword by Jennifer Houston, founder of The Red Balloon Project

Genres: Grief, Spirituality, Nonfiction

124 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2018

Reviews

[Kim Spier · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that you read and re-read. A good friend gave it to me when my Dad died. I put off reading it, and I shouldn't have. It is really helpful. Some of "prayers" will resound with you, some less so. But Lighthorse is really good at zeroing in on exactly what you might be going through. She gives pages to write things down, if you like. I have figured out that grieving is a process and this book is very helpful in going through it and making sense of the different kinds and phases of grief you might experience. A very helpful guide.

[Yaakov · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this approach to grief, honoring each stage as a part of the medicine wheel and structuring the journey that way. The short read is packed with proof that simple and straightforward does not mean easy or quick, especially when tending the mind and soul.

[Joseph Anderson ii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Timing is Becoming Amazing…

This book (an the other 4 created) have been the emotional laxative, spiritual lubricant, the spotlight with words i have been desperately needing since my bride level’d up from our battle with cancer. To say Pixie Lighthorse’s commitment to being a conduit for the healing ALL has available is amazing would be a gross disservice to the craft/medium chosen to help set captives free from the dungeon of spousal separation due to terminal illness.

I actually started reading “Prayers of Honoring,” got to the chapter on Grief, and immediately went to purchase this book on Grief. All of the accolades in the beginning of the book are spot on with the leadership of the author through VERY dangerous terrain with a level of compassionate firmness that losing a close loved one needs.

Having read through this book, and listened to the audiobooks of Mountain Lion & Panther, i am confident that with the resources available, the RADness of life is capable of regaining its saturation…and ashes really will produce amazing phoenixes for “just such a time as this…”

Blessings & Mahalo to anyone reading this…you will not be disappointed with the investment!! Peace peace

[Traci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank You For This Beautiful Work

Grief is something that so few of us have been taught how to do properly and yet, we all experience it at some point in our lives. This offering helps tremendously by providing prayers to take us through the many instances where we experience grief and the cycles of grief. I especially love the journal prompts that encourage us to go deeper to heal. Thank you again.

[Belinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Healing in the dark

I loved these prayers because they open my heart and invite my tears in a stone cold world. I pray, too, to my Heaven Father and Lord Jesus Christ. And these prayers help me express my pain. I recommend this book for people who are stuck in grieving. Those who are numb and yet to enter the darkness.

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve finished reading but I’ll revisit the journaling prompts this summer.

Lighthorse seems to have seen inside my soul. We gather to celebrate so often but not so often to grieve. Her words flipped a switch for me… I spoke out loud to myself… “Yes. I’m not alone. I’m not abnormal.” Grief doesn’t have to be the result of the death of a loved one.

I’ll recommend this book to others.

[Kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful little book filled with prayers for honoring grief of all types: loss, healing, heartbreak, loneliness, etc.

No matter who or what you pray to this is a great tool to keep close at hand when you seek comfort.

[Liz Percy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fancy New Age Language

Was all too high flown for me. I was looking for something down to earth to get me through the tough days. Lost me at let go of beginnings, in the first chapter. Wanted a bit of hope to touch base with was all.

[Pamela Anderson-Bartholet · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have purchased this book several times for friends who are grieving. The loss of a father...home...job...good health--this book helps to make sense of the many kinds of losses that we experience throughout our lives. I highly recommend it.

[Èlia Viader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely...!

[Rachel Leber · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a beautiful book that could be read and kept for a lifetime for just the right moments.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dont allow the authors name to scare you away from these. They are as prayer poems something quite extrodinary. Very glad to have found and read them. She speaks to the heart.

[DK · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. I’m at a loss for words. You just have to live this book in your own way.