{"product_id":"as-long-as-you-need-permission-to-grieve-9781400336845","title":"As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVeteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAs Long As You Need\u003c\/em\u003e, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving--spiritual, mental, physical, and relational--and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener and grief catcher who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients. While social and cultural narratives about grief are dominated by \"letting go, moving on, or turning the page\" in his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a designated level one trauma center J.S. understands firsthand how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his unique window into the stories of the ill, injured, dying, and their families, J.S. offers you: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePermission to dismantle all too common myths about grief and replace them with a guilt-free and unrushed approach to navigating your losses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncouragement for how entering grief, rather than avoiding it, leads to a hard but meaningful holding of your loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpathy and hope if you are struggling with a crisis of faith in the midst of grief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecognition that grief spans a wide narrative of loss: loss of future, faith, mental health, worth, autonomy, connection, and loved ones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAffirmation that your grief is your own. While the DNA of grief might be universal to the human condition, how you experience and process grief is unique to you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the ER to deliveries to deathbeds across every sort of illness and injury imaginable, J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people in all walks of life and death. Now, through his book he wants to assure you that, while everybody else might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. S. Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.47w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400336845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePark, J. S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ.S. Park\u003c\/strong\u003e is a hospital chaplain, author, and online educator. For eight years he has been an interfaith chaplain at a 1000-plus bed hospital that is designated a Level 1 Trauma Center. His role includes grief counseling, attending every death, every trauma and Code Blue, staff care, and supporting end-of-life care. He also served for three years as a chaplain at one of the largest nonprofit charities for the homeless on the east coast.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ.S. has a MDiv completed in 2010 and a BA in Psychology. He also has a sixth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. J.S. currently lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife, a nurse practitioner, and his three-year-old daughter and their adopted dog.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43769298878579,"sku":"9.7814E+12","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_de1cf692-1d02-4a62-9a03-f0eb6c7c2731.jpg?v=1757074361","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/as-long-as-you-need-permission-to-grieve-9781400336845","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}