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When Love Learns a New Language: Practicing Grief Companionship
Grief changes the way we breathe, speak, remember, and pray. It can turn ordinary rooms into sanctuaries and familiar dates into landmines. In those fragile spaces, the most healing gift isn’t a technique, it’s presence. True grief companionship begins with a calm, sacred posture that validates sorrow, protects dignity, and offers wise, timely guidance without…
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When Tears Teach Us: Practicing Grief Companionship on the Frontlines of Care
Grief is not a problem to be solved, it’s a person to be honored. In crisis work, I’ve observed that the most transformative moments are not when we speak brilliantly, but when we stay faithfully. Presence, not perfection, is what helps a heart begin to breathe again. Walking alongside survivors of domestic violence, individuals navigating…
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Three Steps to Effective Grief Care: Presence, Practice, Praise
When Development Meets Loss: A Pastoral Map for Grief Companionship Why Grief Needs Both Psychology and Theology Grief is more than pain to be reduced; it is love searching for a new way to live. Psychology helps us understand how people grow; cognitively, socially, morally, spiritually. Theology grounds us in a hope that does not…
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The Art of Presence: Supporting Grief with Compassionate Companionship
Staying With the Sorrow: A Gentle Guide to Grief Companionship Excerpt: Grief rarely asks us for answers. It asks us for presence. The ministry is not to hurry people past their pain, but to sit with them long enough that hope can find its way back into the room. Why “companionship” and not “fixing” When…
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Grief Care Strategies: Presence, Practice, and Praise
When Grief Needs More Than Answers: A Pastoral Pathway of Presence, Practice, and Praise Grief doesn’t ask for quick fixes; it asks for faithful company. As pastoral caregivers and grief companions, we are invited to sit in sacred spaces where words can feel too small and silence feels heavy, but holy. The aim is not…
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Supporting Grieving Children: A Compassionate Guide
When Little Hearts Grieve: A Pastoral Guide to Gentle Companionship Grief doesn’t arrive with a map, it arrives with a person. And that person, whether three or thirty-three, needs presence more than perfection. As pastors, chaplains, counselors, and caring adults, we often meet grief in its most tender forms: a child who won’t sleep since…
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Healing Hearts: A Guide for Pastoral Grief Support
When Pastors Grieve: A Gentle Path for Grief Counseling and Grief Companionship A pastoral, research-informed guide to grief counseling and grief companionship; how churches can normalize lament, care for grieving hearts (including pastors), and cultivate sustainable rhythms of support and hope. Grief is not an interruption to ministry; it is the landscape we all eventually…
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Compassionate Care for Grieving Seniors: Best Practices
Elders, Loss, and Love: A Grief Companion’s Guide to Walking with Late-Life Sorrow (Not Away From It) A pastoral, research-informed guide to grief companionship with older adults covering integrity vs. despair, wisdom over productivity, Kübler-Ross’ insights, grief vs. mourning, and practical steps churches and families can use to offer sacred presence. Introduction: When Presence Becomes…
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Understanding Grief Through Early Attachments
The First Two Years: Trust, Attachment, and the Foundations of Grief Resilience Grief often reopens the earliest wounds of our lives. When we sit with someone in their sorrow, we are not only entering the space of their present loss but also the echoes of their earliest attachments. The first two years of life, as…
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Healing Grief through Childhood Insights
Early Wounds, Lasting Echoes: What Ages 2–3 Teach Us About Grief Grief has a way of drawing us back to the most vulnerable places of our story. In counseling, I’ve seen how adults facing loss often revisit unresolved shame, fear, or insecurity first planted in childhood. Chapter 5 of Human Development by Joseph Bohac and…
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