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When Grief Seeks Comfort: Understanding Addiction Through the Eyes of a Grief Companion
Grief has a way of exposing the tender, unguarded places within us; those hidden chambers of yearning, fear, and emotional ache that we often try to manage alone. Many imagine addiction as an issue only for “others,” yet when we consider it through a grief-informed lens, we discover something profoundly humbling: addiction is often a…
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When Grief Sits in the Room: What Group Dynamics Teach Us About Healing Together
There is a sacred moment in every grief-support gathering where the room exhales, when people realize they don’t have to be strong, impressive, or “okay.” They can simply be. And for many mourners, it is the first time since the loss that they’ve felt such permission. Presenting on group dynamics recently reminded me that good…
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When Grief Calls Us to Sit, Listen, and Stay: The Sacred Work of Grief Companionship
Grief companionship is not a technique. It is a ministry of presence, a gentle willingness to walk with those whose hearts have shattered in ways that words alone cannot mend. In pastoral care and Christian counseling, we quickly learn that grief does not require us to fix anything, it requires us to remain, to hold…
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When Grief Finds Us: The Sacred Art of Companionship in Christian Counseling
Grief has a way of slowing the world down, sometimes to a standstill. It rearranges priorities, interrupts rhythms, and exposes the tenderness of being human. In pastoral care and grief counseling, we do not rush people through this valley. Instead, we walk with them gently, honoring every tremor of sorrow and every flicker of hope.…
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When Tears Become Testimony: What Three Church-Based Groups Taught Me About Grief Companionship
Grief has a way of slowing life to the speed of honesty. It quiets the noise, sifts our priorities, and calls us into sacred spaces of vulnerability: places where words fall short and presence matters more than answers. Over the past season, I’ve had the profound privilege of sitting in three very different group settings…
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When Heaven Meets Our Hurt: The Birth of Jesus Through the Lens of Grief
The birth of Jesus is often wrapped in the warm glow of Christmas lights, celebration, angels, shepherds, and songs of joy. But when we sit closely with Matthew’s account (Matthew 1:18–2:23), another reality emerges; one filled with fear, loss, displacement, trauma, danger, and divine presence in the midst of suffering. When viewed through the eyes…
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When Grief Asks for a Companion: The Quiet Ministry of Showing Up
Grief has a way of exposing the deepest truth about the human soul, we were never created to carry sorrow alone. In the world of pastoral care and Christian counseling, we often encounter people at the most fragile edges of their humanity. Sometimes their grief is loud and disruptive; other times it hides in quiet…
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When Grief Moves in With Us: Becoming a Gentle Companion to Hurting Families
Grief doesn’t knock politely before it enters a home. It moves in through job losses and diagnoses, through miscarriages and funerals, through betrayals, relocations, estrangements and “we just don’t talk anymore.” By the time many couples or families reach out for help, the symptoms look like anger, shutdown, porn use, rebellion, nagging, stonewalling, depression, “attitude,”…
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Grief Companionship: The Sacred Work of Seeing People Whole
Grief is not a problem to be solved; it is a person to be seen. When sorrow enters a life, what heals first is not a clever answer but a faithful presence. In pastoral care and Christian counseling, our task is to sit close to the ache, to name reality without reducing it, and to…
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Understanding Grief: Compassionate Presence and Assessment
Seeing Through Tears: The Sacred Art of Grief Companionship Grief is not a problem to be solved, it’s a story that needs to be witnessed. When we sit beside a grieving soul, we’re not just listening for pain; we’re attending to the sacred evidence of love. In Christian counseling, grief companionship is not about offering…
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