A Hand to Hold: Helping Someone Through Grief

by Lauraine Snelling

Book by Snelling, Lauraine

Genres: Nonfiction, Christian

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Award-winning and bestselling author Lauraine Snelling has over 80 books published with sales of over 4.5 million. Her original dream was to write horse books for children. Today, she writes adult novels about real issues centered on forgiveness, loss, domestic violence and cancer in her inspirational contemporary women’s fiction titles and historical series, including the favorite, Blessing books about Ingeborg Bjorklund and family.

Lauraine enjoys helping others reach their writing dreams by teaching at writer’s conferences across the county. She and her husband Wayne have two grown sons, and a daughter in Heaven. They live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a Basset named Sir Winston ob de Mountains, Lapcat, and “The Girls” (three golden hens).

Reviews

[Rhonda Dorn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Variety of insigjts

I appreciated hearing from multiple voices on their experiences of loss and what they found helpful. Grieving is a personal journey and it is important to respect each person's experience. Let them feel what the need to feel and learn to be present to them in the way THEY need, not what we THINK they need.

[Janet Noonan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It just wasn’t for me. Everyone reacts differently to grief.