Hurt Help Hope: A Real Conversation about Teen Grief and Life after Loss

“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.

Clarissa Moll is an award-winning writer and podcaster who helps bereaved people find flourishing after loss. Clarissa's writing appears in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, RELEVANT, Modern Loss, Grief Digest and more. She co-hosted Christianity Today's "Surprised by Grief" podcast and produces Christianity Today's flagship news podcast, "The Bulletin." Clarissa's debut book, Beyond the Darkness: A Gentle Guide for Living with Grief and Thriving After Loss, was a best-selling new release in 2022. She is the author of the Beyond the Darkness Devotional, Hurt Help Hope: A Real Conversation about Teen Grief and Life after Loss, and Hope Comes to Stay (forthcoming 2025).