Grief Support for Children, Teens, Young Adults and their Families

When Grief Comes Home

A Gentle Guide For Living Through Loss While Supporting Your Child

 
 

When death touches your family, you are never quite prepared. Complicating a parent’s personal pain and the need to grieve is the equally important task of helping their children understand and process the loss of a loved one as well.

Authors Erin Leigh Nelson—founder and executive director of Jessica's House, a grief support center for children and families—and licensed marriage and family therapist Colleen E. Montague have spent the last 20 years supporting grieving families.

Drawing from their personal and professional experience, Nelson and Montague share wisdom for parents navigating loss alongside their children in their new book, When Grief Comes Home (Baker Books, Feb. 2025) and offer answers to difficult questions such as:

  • How should I answer my child's questions about death?

  • Should I let them see me cry?

  • How can I support my child’s resilience?

  • How can I help preserve memories?

In this gentle guide, Nelson and Montague provide honest ways to talk to kids about death according to age and stage of development and offer ideas on how to process, honor, and integrate loss. Also included are reflective questions and healing activities that lead to more meaningful connection between parents and children, inspiring hope for the future.

When families find healing practices together, they find ways to integrate their loss and expand their capacity to thrive. Through times of tragedy, when parents and children have the support they need, the shared experience of grief can become part of their family's sacred story.

You can secure your copy of When Grief Comes Home today!

The book is available online at: Target | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Baker Book House | ChristianBook.com

100% of proceeds benefit the children and families at Jessica’s House.

When Grief Comes Home Podcast

When Grief Comes Home is a podcast that supports parents who are grieving while raising children living through the loss of a parent or sibling. From how to talk to your child about the death to healing practices for resiliency, this podcast addresses challenges parents face after a significant death and ways to process, honor, and integrate the loss over time. Listeners will feel understood and better equipped to process and express their own grief as they support their child.

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