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    Thoughts for the Holidays: Finding Permission to Grieve
    Thoughts for the Holidays: Finding Permission to Grieve
    Thoughts for the Holidays: Finding Permission to Grieve
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    Thoughts for the Holidays: Finding Permission to Grieve

    By Doug Manning

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    Thoughts for the Holidays provides help to those in grief during the holiday season.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9781892785800
    Thoughts for the Holidays: Finding Permission to Grieve
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    Doug Manning

    Doug Manning's career has included work as a minister, counselor, business executive, author, and publisher. He and his wife Barbara raised four daughters and served as long-term caregivers to three parents. After thirty years in ministry, Doug began a new career in 1982 writing, counseling, and leading seminars in grief and elder care. His publishing company, InSight Books, Inc., specializes in books, video, and audio productions designed to help people face some of life's toughest challenges. He sold his company in 2023 but continues to write and to also post on his blog, www.thehappyheretic.me. Doug's warm, conversational voice make his books read like a long conversation with a good friend.

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      Thoughts for the Holidays - Doug Manning

      THOUGHTS

      for the HOLIDAYS

      Finding Permission to Grieve

      DOUG MANNING

      Copyright© 2001

      In-Sight Books, Inc.

      P.O. Box 42467

      Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73123

      800.658.9262

      405.810.9501

      www.InSightBooks.com

      OrdersAndInfo@InSightBooks.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the publisher, excepting brief quotes used in connection with reviews, written specifically for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper.

      Cover Photo: Digital West, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

      ISBN: 978-1-892785-40-4 (print)

      ISBN: 978-1-892785-80-0 (eBook)

      Contents

      Thoughts for the Holidays

      The Waves of Grief

      Then the Holidays Happen

      Why do the Holidays Hurt?

      The Significance of Significance

      There are at least three areas where significance must be established:

      The Holiday Dilemma

      Holidays Can Create Conflict

      Holidays Interrupt the Grieving Process

      Holidays Make Demands on us We Can Not Fulfill

      The Key to the Holidays is Permission

      What About the Children?

      Permission To Do What You Can Do

      Permission to be Where You Need to Be

      Permission to Change Traditions

      Permission to Relate to God in a Different Way

      Permission to Find Safe People

      In the rising of the sun and

      in its going down

      We remember them;

      In the blowing of the wind and

      in the chill of winter,

      We remember them;

      In the opening of the buds and

      in the warmth of summer,

      We remember them;

      In the rustling of leaves and

      the beauty of autumn,

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