Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and let Go - Softcover

Fumia, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 168481118X ISBN 13: 9781684811182

Publisher: TMA Press, 2023

Synopsis

Comfort Words for Loss, Grief, and Bereavement

“Here is a book of exquisite honesty and profound depth. Along the way, grief becomes a dance in the dark and suffering turns to love”—Sue Monk Kidd, Author of The Secret life of Bees and The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Too many of us are familiar with the feelings of grief and bereavement. For those new to and for those long suffering from loss, Safe Passage is a grief handbook to heal loss of every kind.

One of the best books on grieving. The grieving process is slow, but each step is necessary for recovery. In this classic grief and loss book with over 100,000 copies sold, Molly Fumia says it's ok that you're not ok, and gently guides us through any stage of grief with her profound wisdom and insight. Her kind comfort words for loss and encouragement helps us to contemplate our feelings and creates a space where healing your mind and soul is possible—even after loss.

Find healing and hope. Healing grief can seem impossible, but Fumia assures us that there is hope to be found. As an expert on grief, and as someone who has experienced devastating loss, Fumia provides a deeply thoughtful roadmap for the difficult journey we face when bearing the unbearable. In leading us through the pain of grief and grieving, this book on grieving provides a helping hand to all those lost in grief.

Inside Safe Passage, find:

• Steps to guide you through each stage of grief
• Comfort words for loss from a critically acclaimed grief expert
• A grief handbook for healing grief, finding peace in the everyday process of grief

If you found comfort in books on grieving like Grief Is Love, The Grieving Brain, or Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died, you’ll love Safe Passage.

About this title

About the Author

Molly Fumia holds a master's degree in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Molly is the author of books on the transformative nature of grief, including Honor Thy Children, Safe Passage, and A Piece of My Heart. She lives with her husband and seven children in Los Gatos, California.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

This is a book of meditations for the grieving. A friend once said that writing it was a brave thing. But I knew the braver thing would be to read it.

It is true that grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction, one that demands to be taken. Sometimes, it begins quietly. Your reaction to shocking news is measured, like a tossed stone in a placid lake, circles of meaning slowing widening, reaching into more and more of your consciousness until you understand how much you have lost and grief washes over you.

But more often, grief begins cruelly—a few words, the sharp suspension of reality. A moment of disbelief and then the hailstorm descends, feelings like knives slicing through bone, a relentless attack that will continue into undefined time. Denial, fear, despair, anger, powerlessness, regret, guilt, loneliness—any or all of these feelings batter you mercilessly, causing you to doubt a way out of your pain.

To whatever degree you grieve, the emotional invasion is inevitable; the feelings are valid and real. This book is an attempt to put words around your feelings—something like facing the enemy. You can fight them, or you can live through them.

The very act of struggling to breathe when grief has deprived you of air is a sign of your spirit stirring. Even as the heart is breaking, the pieces begin to inch back. Even though the little things bring sobs up to your throat, and confusion has crushed any sense of normalcy in your life, something within you is plotting survival.

I offer these meditations as one map of your journey through the blackest night to the slow, gentle dawn of acceptance, unexpected wisdom, and new possibilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: TMA Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 168481118X
• ISBN 13: 9781684811182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 206