The Loss of a Spouse participant guide contains practical strategies and exercises for people grieving a spouse's death.

The Leader's Guide contains what you need to lead an effective Loss of a Spouse outreach seminar. The Leader's Guide features suggestions on maximizing community exposure and publicity for your seminar, a guide for leading the small-group discussion time, and information on accessing valuable online tools for hosting an event. The Leader's Guide also shares how a Loss of a Spouse outreach event can help grow your GriefShare ministry and reach even more grieving people in your church and community.

The GriefShare Participant Workbook offers practical exercises, helpful articles, journaling tips, and biblical teaching on how to heal from the pain of grief after the death of a loved one. This book is used in conjunction with a GriefShare support group program.

Designed and priced to be bought in bulk and used for ministry purposes or sent in lieu of a bereavement card, this book has five distinct sections that correspond to the five stage of grief: shock, rage, despair, release, and peace.

When we're grieving the death of someone loved, we need the support and compassion of our fellow human beings. Grief support groups provide a wonderful opportunity for this very healing kind of support. This book is for professional or lay caregivers who want to start and lead an effective grief support group for adults. It explains how to get a group started and how to keep it running smoothly once it's underway. The group leader's roles and responsibilities are explored in detail, including communication skills, trust building, handling problems, and more.This Guide also includes twelve meeting plans that interface with the second editions of Understanding Your Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal. Each week group members read a chapter in the main text, complete a chapter in the journal, and come to group ready for you to guide them through an exploration of the content. Meeting plans include suggestions for how to open each session as well as engaging exercises and activities. A Certificate of Completion you can photocopy and give to group members in the final meeting is provided.

From Toddlers to Teenagers; Connecting with Your Children at Every Age H. Norman Wright provides practical advice and encouragement to parents on how they can learn their child's emotional language, unlocking the door to their child's heart and vastly improved relationships! Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to talk so that both children and teens will listen. This book will take the frustration out of parents' interactions with their kids when they master Child speak and Teen speak. All it takes is learning to package words in such a manner that kids and teens want to listen. These principles of parent-child communication are time-tested and proven approaches that will change and improve family communication.

The results are positive. The plane crashes. The pandemic hits. Your world—maybe even the whole world comes to an abrupt halt. How do you keep going? How do you process the emotions? And more than that, how do you find a new normal in the world you emerge into? The world may be restarting and opening its doors, but the effects of the grief, isolation, anxiety, and anger are anything but over. In this brief but powerful book, Dr. H Norman Wright, Christian grief and trauma therapist and author of Experiencing Grief, along with co-author, Bryn Edwards, help readers to process through the emotional toll that the pandemic shut-down has taken, and gives readers practical tips, tools, and exercises to not only re-enter the world stronger, but better prepared to handle the unexpected. Even in the midst of chaos, we can still find hope and find peace. “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit,” (Romans 15:13, CSB).

This first volume in the Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament Bible study series guides women through a Christ-centered study of Genesis. The Promised One provides a fresh look at the book of Genesis, leading women in discovering how its stories, symbols, people, and promises point to Christ. Over ten weeks of study, participants will see Christ as the agent of creation, the offspring who will crush the head of the serpent, the ark of salvation, the source of the righteousness credited to Abraham, the substitutionary sacrifice provided by God, the Savior to whom the whole world must come for life, and much more. Each weekly lesson includes questions for personal study, a contemporary teaching chapter that emphasizes how the passage fits into the bigger story of redemptive history, a brief section on how the passage uniquely points to what is yet to come at the consummation of Christ's kingdom, and a leader's guide for group discussion. A ten-session DVD companion set is also available.

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

The Grief Sessions Participant Guidebook is used in conjunction with a six session video presentations (DVD). The Grief Sessions presents practical, healthy ways to navigate the new life we never wanted but have to face nonetheless. The six sessions share scientifically researched, Bible-based, and people-proven ways to turn loss into living again.