Hurt Help Hope: A Real Conversation about Teen Grief and Life after Loss
Ebook
“This book makes it so easy to find useful, realistic, and sensible answers to the most-common questions teens have about grief.” –Sam Hodges IV, President of GriefShare
Hurt Help Hope is a sensitive grief guide written for teens by a grieving teen and her mother. Together they offer support, advice, and understanding for navigating life after loss.
After the death of a loved one, anyone can be caught up in a whirlwind of emotions and unanswered questions. Hurt Help Hope divides lists of relatable questions into five categories covering topics like the logistics of funerals, how your body copes with grief, how it affects your faith in God, how to manage feelings, and more!
Features:
- Credibility and vulnerability of the authors: The authors aren’t writing about grief from a theoretical or clinical place – they are walking through it themselves. Their deeply genuine and empathetic words will comfort readers like a friend.
- Written by a teen and her mom for grieving teens. Fiona shares her experience grieving the death of her father as a teenager. Clarissa shares insights from her family's life as they learned to live without their dad.
- Question-and-answer format: Each chapter is made up of questions teens may have as they experience grief. The authors don’t write in a clinical or theoretical way, but in a conversational tone, sharing what they’ve learned like an encouraging friend.
- Grounded in Jesus: There are encouraging truths about our hope in Jesus and how our theology as Christians can be a great comfort in the face of death.
- An excellent balance of theology and helpful, practical advice.
- Practical advice: This book is brimming with practical, day-to-day suggestions of how to handle grief. These include:
- a list of tips to promote better sleep
- what to do when you’re experiencing anger, confusion, or even numbness
- what to expect at funerals
- a list of insensitive things people might say in the face of loss
- ideas about how to respond to comments like those
- and many more!
- Engaging quizzes, charts, and graphs help to processes fears, feelings, and all the hard things.
This book makes it so easy to find useful, realistic, and sensible answers to the most-common questions teens have about grief.
I hate that Clarissa and Fiona Moll had to write this book. But I am so deeply grateful they did. Their conversational tone makes this difficult material both relatable and accessible for the hurting teen, and simultaneously equips parents, church leaders, and caretakers with language and tools to help adolescents find real hope in Jesus, even in the midst of confusing, arduous losses. The Molls beautifully lead the hurting teenager to find hope in Jesus and towards emotional and spiritual health—without bypassing their grief and pain. This book is a necessary and important resource.
As a college missionary, I often meet students who experienced profound loss during their teen years without a guide to help them. This book is the guide they needed. Through firsthand experience and information on how grief affects our bodies and brains, Clarissa and Fiona explain grief in a way that is gentle and understandable. They point teens to gospel hope without minimizing their painful experiences and emotions. Full of self-assessments, practical tips, and plenty of resources, this is a book teens will go to over and over again, and one I will use in my ministry and with my own grieving teen.
In Hurt, Help, Hope, Clarissa and Fiona Moll have created a holy space. For young people dealing with life’s most massive things, here is a path towards healing. Sensitive, practical, powerful help. A true gift for parents and teens alike.
This is the book I would have loved to have handed my teens after their dad suddenly went to heaven. Clarissa and Fiona have created an easily understandable resource tackling the issues teens navigate emotionally, physically, and socially after loss with authenticity and gospel truth. Powerful and delightfully free from pat answers, this book will become an interactive companion in teen grief. Hurt, Help, Hope should be on the nightstand of every teen grappling with grief.