When Grief Comes Home, Erin Leigh Nelson
When Grief Comes Home, Erin Leigh Nelson
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When Grief Comes Home
A Gentle Guide for Living Through Loss While Supporting Your Child

Author: Erin Leigh Nelson, Colleen E. Montague, LMFT

Narrator: Emma Faye

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2025


Synopsis

When death touches your family, you are never quite prepared. Complicating your personal pain and the need to grieve is the equally important task of helping your children understand and process the loss of a loved one. How should you answer your child's questions about death? Should you let them see you cry? How can you support their resilience? How can you help preserve memories?

Drawing from their own personal and professional experience, Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague help you navigate loss alongside your child. They provide honest ways to talk to your child about death according to age and stage of development and offer ideas on how to process, honor, and integrate loss. Chapters end with reflective questions and healing activities that lead to more meaningful connection between parents and children, inspiring hope for the future.

When families find healing practices together, they find ways to integrate their loss and expand their capacity to thrive. Through times of tragedy, when parents and children have the support they need, the shared experience of grief can become part of their family's sacred story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on February 05, 2025

I served as a pastor for 30 years, and wish that I'd had this book throughout that time. Erin Leigh and Colleen Montague have written a book that is not only heartfelt and heartbreaking, but hopeful and hope-full. Erin knows first-hand of the grief of losing a husband to an accident with two young c......more

Goodreads review by Allyson on March 30, 2025

When Grief Comes Home is a book that I will carry with me for a long time. Having had the opportunity to work with the authors at Jessica’s House, I was eager to read it, but I didn’t expect just how deeply it would resonate with me. This book is both a guide and a companion—offering knowledge, fore......more

Goodreads review by Shauna on March 07, 2025

When Grief Comes Home, provides a perspective to grief and loss that is inclusive of sorrow and healing, a tandem journey what is unique for each individual, both young and old. Each section is inclusive of experiential narrative that cultivates a sense of sitting in a present moment with a friend t......more

Goodreads review by Courtney Morse on March 06, 2025

Erin’s unique memoirs about the losses of her husband, mother and son will connect with many. Coupled with helpful practices, this is the resource and companion people will feel drawn to help them get through. It’s not just memoir and it’s not just practices, it’s a beautiful blend of both. Plus, ea......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on March 10, 2025

Honest and authentic. Erin is someone who walks the talk - having lost her young husband, then her mom and later her young adult son, she knows of what she speaks. Additionally, she has chosen a career in the grief field. I found her stories very helpful and familiar. As a fellow bereaved mom, I fin......more