Based on Walking the Mourner’s Path, an eight-week support program designed to accompany people in their grief, 30 Days Toward Healing Your Grief differs from other support resources by using a proven methodology that does not leave people in their pain but gently leads them forward from “that my loved one died” to “how my loved one lived” and, finally, to “how I must live to honor his or her memory.”

Published in workbook form (30 daily reflections/studies), this book addresses many of the issues that develop with those struggling with grief. This book will assist mourners as they walk through pain, remember their loved one, honor the relationship, honestly address the complications of grief, and find the courage to turn their pain into joyful living once again. Those who thought God had abandoned them will once again feel his presence through a renewed spiritual relationship with our Lord.

Authors Danielle Morris and Kristen Alday are excited about this new resource to take people who are in extraordinary grief to a place of life and joy. This is not a devotional but an interactive, tender workbook that is also a tribute to Danielle’s mother and Kristen’s father. The authors both lost these parents in their teen years and spent four years together traveling the country sharing in grief counseling.

Danielle Morris, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Central Florida with extensive experience in loss and grief, created Walking the Mourner’s Path in 1996. The eight-week grief support program is now used in nearly every state, Canada, Australia, and the Cayman Islands. A former television writer and producer, Morris, who earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology, has written and produced more than 120 medical mini documentaries for major networks; written for Medical Tribune, Central Florida Magazine, Orlando magazine, and McCall’s, among others; and has published seven children’s books. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

Kristen N. Alday, Archdeacon, has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and worked in the private sector until becoming Chief Operating Officer for Walking the Mourner’s Path. During her time there, she spent four years traveling the country training clergy and laity in grief ministry. Ordained to the diaconate, she serves as Archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. She has earned a master’s degree in counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary and spent two years as a licensed mental health intern in the state of Florida, specializing in issues surrounding grief and loss; anxiety and fear; and trauma that accompanies emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. She lives in Maitland, Florida.

30 Days Toward Healing Your Grief is available by preorder and will be in print in March 2017. Please visit www.churchpublishing.org/30daystowardhealingyourgrief to order yours today.