Comfort for the Grieving Parent's Heart: Hope and Healing After Losing Your Child

The unthinkable has happened.

No matter how old your child was or how they died, this loss is devastating. How are you going to survive this?

The world around you speeds on as if nothing happened. Stunned, shocked, sad, confused, and angry, you blink in disbelief. Your heart is crushed. The pain is excruciating. You can barely breathe.

For you, everything has changed. Everything.

What do you do? What can you do?

Multiple award-winning author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe is a trusted voice who has been helping wounded, grieving parents and grandparents find hope and healing for more than three decades. Written with heartfelt compassion, this warm, easy-to-read, and practical book reads like a caring conversation with a close friend.

Comfort for the Grieving Parent's Heart will meet you in your grief and walk with you there. Your shattered heart will resonate with these pages. Composed of brief chapters, you will find yourself digesting bite-sized bits of comfort, encouragement, and healing over time. This book will become a comforting, refreshing companion as you navigate the turbulent waters of intense grief.

In Comfort for the Grieving Parent's Heart, you will discover how to...

• Process all those complicated, roller coaster emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, fear, confusion, guilt, anxiety, depression, feeling overwhelmed, etc).

• Navigate all the relational changes and frustrations that occur, including feeling alone, misunderstood, isolated, and even rejected by those around you.

• Handle the ever-increasing stress load that keeps piling upon you.

• Deal with disturbing physical and mental health issues, illnesses, and new symptoms that often arise.

• Honor your child by taking care of yourself through diet, hydration, fitness, and rest.

• Deal with your daunting list unrelenting, ongoing responsibilities (work, financial challenges, parenting, family activities, etc.).

• Handle the intense loneliness that now resides in your heart and soul.

You will also find hope in how to...

• Think through tough, challenging spiritual and faith questions.

• Relate well to the people around you - both those who are helpful, and those who aren't.

• Overcome the tendency to run from emotional pain with unhealthy habits or compulsive behaviors.

• Deal well with triggers and grief bursts.

• Find the support you need for survival, recovery, and healing (safe people, fellow grievers, counseling, etc.).

• Develop a simple, realistic plan for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.

• Use your grief for good - for yourself, your family, and others.

• Allow this devastating loss to give you greater perspective and motivate you to live more effectively than ever before.

• Honor your child and make your life count, one day, one moment at a time.

Please don't grieve alone. Be kind to yourself. Take your heart seriously.

Let Comfort for the Grieving Parent's Heart join you on this confusing, arduous, and exhausting journey. You will be glad you did.

Read on. Comfort awaits you in these pages of this book.

Author: Roe Gary
Publisher: Gary Roe
Published: 04/13/2020
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781950382323

About the Author
Gary, Roe: - Author, speaker, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing hope and healing to hurting hearts for more than three decades. Gary's story began with a childhood of mixed messages and sexual abuse. This was followed by other losses and numerous grief experiences. Ultimately, a painful past led Gary into a life of helping wounded people heal and grow. A former college minister, missionary in Japan, entrepreneur in Hawaii, and pastor in Texas and Washington, he now serves as a writer, speaker, chaplain, and grief counselor. In addition to Comfort for the Grieving Parent's Heart, Gary is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning bestsellers Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart, and Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces After a Suicide. Gary's books have won three national book awards and have been named as finalists eight times. He has been featured on Dr. Laura, Belief Net, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Wellness, Th rive Global, and other major media and has well over 700 grief-related articles in print. Recipient of the Diane Duncam Award for Excellence in Hospice Care, Gary is a popular keynote, conference, and seminar speaker at a wide variety of venues. Gary loves being a husband and father. He has seven adopted children, including three daughters from Colombia. He enjoys hockey, corny jokes, good puns, and colorful Hawaiian shirts. Gary and his wife Jen and family live in Texas.