Growing Through It As You're Going Through It: Learning to Stand, Heal, and Rise When Life Breaks You Open
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Growing Through It As You're Going Through It: Learning to Stand, Heal, and Rise When Life Breaks You Open
- Author
- Rivera, C. Jay
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798241809582
What do you do when life breaks you open — and nothing looks the same again?
The day C. Jay Rivera lost his 15-year-old son, Elijah “Eli” Rivera, everything stopped. The laughter, the routines, the plans, the quiet certainty that tomorrow was promised — all of it shattered. What followed wasn’t a heroic rise. It was confusion. Anger. Deep grief. Silence. And the slow, painful process of learning how to breathe again.
Growing Through It As You’re Going Through It is the honest story of that journey.
This isn’t a book about having all the answers. It’s about walking through nights that feel endless and discovering, one step at a time, that God is still present — not always explaining, but always holding. Through raw reflection, heartfelt prayer, and honest storytelling, Jay invites readers into the questions many people feel but rarely say out loud:
Why did this happen?
Where was God?
How do I live with a pain that doesn’t disappear?
What do I do when faith doesn’t feel strong anymore?
As the pages unfold, so does something deeper — the realization that pain doesn’t mean God is absent, and grief doesn’t mean life is over. Somewhere in the middle of heartbreak, God begins the quiet work of rebuilding. And sometimes, healing doesn’t look like forgetting — it looks like learning how to carry both love and loss at the same time.
In these chapters, you will discover:
• how to face pain honestly without feeling like you’re failing spiritually
• why discomfort can actually shape strength and character
• how the enemy uses memory and fear to keep us stuck
• what faith looks like when nothing makes sense
• ways to recognize growth, even when it feels invisible
• encouragement to believe that your story is not finished yet
C. Jay doesn’t offer clichés. He offers something real: a companion through the valley. He writes as a father, a believer, and a man learning that growth often comes disguised as tears, questions, and courage you don’t realize you have until you’re forced to use it.
This book is for anyone who has ever loved deeply, lost deeply, and wondered how to keep going. It is for the parent who feels empty, the believer who feels shaken, the friend who doesn’t know how to comfort someone grieving, and the person quietly fighting battles no one sees.
It is a reminder that:
You are not weak because you’re still healing.
You are not behind because it still hurts.
You are not abandoned — even when it feels that way.
And most of all:
You are not buried.
You are being planted.
And something beautiful is still growing.
If you are walking through grief, transition, uncertainty, or a season where God feels distant, this book will sit with you — not to rush you past the pain, but to remind you that even here, growth is possible.
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