Seeing GREEN HOPE in a Brown Holiday
This is for you if …
You recently lost loved one
You are dreading upcoming holidays
You are missing a loved one especially during holidays
Experiencing a holiday after the loss of a loved one can be a difficult time for many spouses, parents, family members and friends. Whether your loved one has been gone just a short time or for many years, the ache over their absence can hit us with new waves of intense grief during these next few weeks. It may cause a catch in our breath or hit so hard that we can’t imagine where the next breath will come from - much like our earlier days of grief.
How can we survive this holiday season when our hearts are a jumble of emotions?
Especially in the middle of this season with the Coronavirus Pandemic and uncertain national and world wide concerns. How can we face the anticipated family times, expected ‘sparkle and celebration’, all the while feeling that we are the only ones that can’t ‘get over this’ deep, dark, lonely sense of loss?
How do we navigate hope in what may seem a hopeless time?
Grief is often a lonely journey! No one can tell us how to grieve or how to deal with the emotions and thoughts that we experience. But we do not have to do it alone.
Below are three resources from GHC that may help you.
FREE EBOOK: Using Open Hands to Survive the Holidays (Click here to request your free copy.)
How do you get through the holidays when your grief makes everything feel all sorts of upside down and backwards? Check out this free resource to see how the four steps of N.E.P.O. becomes OPEN HANDS this holiday season.
2. Join us for the next two GREEN HOPE GATHERINGS
Thursdays, November 12th and Dece3mber 10th, 2020
at 8:00pm (Eastern)/ 7:00pm (Central)
FIND OUT MORE HERE
On this ZOOM gathering, we will be discussing ways to
See Green Hope in a Brown Holiday
Thes are PAY WHAT YOU CAN events so whether you can pay $1 or $100 you are invited to join us.
Proceeds for these two evenings will go to a GIFT OF HOPE for a woman in the GHC community.
To find out more about the GREEN HOPE GATHERING, CLICK HERE.
3. PLUS I have included a link to a FIVE helpful tips to help us move forward with grace even as we feel the weight of grief in the holidays. Download it by clicking the button below.
Curious to know a bit more about My story?
Hi! My name is Kathy Burrus. I live in Northwest Ohio between Toledo and Dayton. But I grew up in Lipscomb County where my parents, Floyd & Lovella Thiessen, still reside and I graduated from Follett High School. I married a home town boy by the name of Rennie Burrus. Within the last couple of years, Ren’s family has experienced the care and concern of the Hemphill County Hospice group as we said good-bye to my
father-in-law, Ray Burrus.
I also belong to a club called “grieving momma” having lost the youngest of our three daughters in a car pedestrian accident in August of 2006. I tell more of that story in my book that my daughter Leisha started for me in the back of her journal called Lovely Traces of Hope.
Holidays have a way of catching me by surprise every year. We will be talking about how we can pay attention to the life giving ways hope shows up for us during our time together.
Listen in to the story I have to share with you.
Here’s to Seeing Green Hope in the middle of your own story.
Kathy