The Grief and Happiness Handbook is available now on Amazon.
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The Grief and Happiness Alliance is happy to make material available to you that our founder, Emily Thiroux Threatt, has written to help you on your grief journey. The books are available in traditional bookstores and can be orders through Barnes and Noble or Amazon. The cards can be ordered from Amazon. The profits from the sales go to the Grief and Happiness Alliance Nonprofit organization so we can provide more services.
Whatever your circumstance may be, this book offers you resourceful support and helpful practices through tips, strategies, and ideas, along with personal stories of individuals going through grief like you. It is written to encourage you to step forward in a positive way and discover how life is going to be as you proceed. Each chapter contains ways for you to look at your life from a new perspective and has practices that will help put what you are learning into action. Throughout the chapters, you will find personal stories designed to give you caring perspectives from fellow grievers. Reading their stories will help you understand you are not alone in the experiences you are having. By sharing these real-life stories, I hope you will discover new ways to foster joy in living once again. You can move from feeling stuck and alone to feeling optimistic and supported as you enter a new experience of who you can become.
As you read the book from start to finish, use it like a Handbook where you pick and choose a topic that pertains to an issue that most needs your attention. Wherever you are in the process of grief, or if you have been living with it for years, within these pages you will find inspiration to support you, along with practices to comfort you on your healing journey. I encourage you to do the practices that most resonate with you and will enable you to feel supported as you actively seek a new way of being in the world. Let each chapter stimulate and encourage you to use the tools you need to establish the new life you are ready to enjoy.
My goal is that as you go through the many suggestions included here, you will be motivated to move forward, using the grief you feel for your loved ones to inspire you to become the person you are meant to be. I want you to always remember I am here for you and will be with you every step of the way. I know firsthand the grieving process and believe if we do it together, you will come out stronger on the other side.
Foreword by Marci Shimoff for Grief and Happiness Handbook
As surprising as it sounds, you can be happy and grieve simultaneously. While our society doesn’t teach that, there is a way to have a state of inner peace and well-being that doesn’t depend on our circumstances—I call that being “happy for no reason.”
In this beautiful and profound Grief and Happiness Handbook, Emily Thiroux Threatt details how grief is a natural and important process when we’ve experienced loss. It's not something that can or should be bypassed but we can experience without losing our inner well-being. She goes on to offer clear and brilliant guidance about how you can grieve with greater grace and peace while also honoring your own feelings of grief and the life of the loved one you’ve lost.
That’s a life-changing concept.
I’d always wanted to experience a lasting and unshakeable happiness, even amid the most challenging situations, and so I did extensive study in the field of happiness, searching for answers. I spoke with top researchers and experts in the field and interviewed 100 of the happiest people in the world to learn their secrets. I tried out what they were doing, and it worked! These discoveries became the basis for my book, Happy for No Reason.
A few years after the book was published, my father and mother, both of whom I was very close with, passed away. After spending most of my life in utter fear of losing them, I was amazed to experience a deep sense of peace alongside my grief. I felt so fortunate to embrace the natural process of grieving in a way that made the journey very rich. I experienced firsthand how grief and happiness can go side by side.
More than a decade ago, I began training other people to teach what I’d learned about happiness so they could share it in their work. I'm thrilled that Emily, the author of this book, is one of my star graduates. She became certified as a Happy For No Reason Trainer so she could help people move through their grieving process.
Emily now uses happiness practices to complement how she guides people in dealing with grief. And the results speak for themselves. Her clients and students are finding deeper peace and well-being amidst their loss. Emily's important work continues to grow through The Grief and Happiness Alliance, a weekly online gathering offering tools, practices, and community connection for people grieving around the world.
The Grief and Happiness Handbook is a great follow-up to the wisdom and tools Emily shared in her book, Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief. Both of these books are a gift to anyone facing grief or loss.
I know that no matter your specific situation, you’ll find what’s shared in this handbook to be extraordinarily helpful. Find a cozy place to curl up with this book and discover the comfort, support, love, and happiness waiting for you on every page. My heart and my love are with you in your grief.
- Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason and co-author of six titles in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
If you are experiencing grief or dealing with loss, these cards are a caring way to help you heal and gently regain your happiness. Each cards is designed to support you as you move through your loss and discover news ways to start living again.
These cards were created by best-selling Author, Photographer, and Artist Emily Thiroux Threatt, who had two husbands die and has become an advocate for those moving forward in their grief. These cards help you move forward toward greater happiness.
Each card offers:
- Sincere comfort and support
- Gentle reminders for self-care
- Daily healing practices
- Inspiration on how to move on
This lovely box set contains 52 unique cards: one per week for a year that will encourage you to find inner peace, love, and harmony. One way to use these cards is to choose one each week to focus on to inspire your thoughts, your mediation, and even your journalling.
These cards can be of great support to you and also make beautiful bereavement books.
Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief is available now on Amazon.
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In life, we all share two events: birth and death. While we joyfully anticipate the birth of a baby and spend months preparing with reading books, taking classes, preparing a nursery, and having baby showers, when death nears, we tend to focus on everything but death. Just like birth, the more we prepare for death, the easier it will be to go through the process and everything that surrounds us. But we don’t usually get to do that. Most of us live is some state of denial until the death actually occurs, then we are lost. Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief is an expression of the journey and process to when you feel alive again with tools to help you pull yourself up in a positive way along the way to help you live again. The format allows the reader to be supported and actively participate in recovering for a whole year one chapter at a time.
Who is this book for?
After the funeral or celebration of life, those who are grieving often find themselves in isolation with loved ones keeping their distance not knowing what to say or do to help. The primary audience for this book are those who are grieving and want help through the process, and the book can also help those who know someone who is grieving but don’t know how to help. By focusing on different topics, emotions, and events each week, the reader will discover ways to cope and to know that they are not alone in the process.
Forward for Loving and Living Your Way through Grief by Michael Bernard Beckwith
Oftentimes when a loved one dies, its sting can catch and hold us in a web of grief, loss, and even despair. As we tend to feel emotionally, soulfully, and even physically connected to our loved ones, these relationships often provide us with a profound sense of intimacy, comfort, and stasis, and can become the very foundation of who we believe we are. So when they die, it can feel like pieces of our very identity has been snatched away, and the sense of loss is felt at the core of our being. Such feelings of loss often engender variations of the questions: Why did this have to happen? Why did they have to leave? Who am I without them in my life? How am I supposed to live without them? What will I do? Although such inquiries are typically borne of grief, when understood within a spiritual context, they can provide the opportunity for intense inner reflection and contemplation, and ultimately, transformation.
You see, not only is it possible to live happily and thrive after a loved one transitions, it is required of us as the eternal and expansive beings we actually are. Many of us have been conditioned to experience our earthly lives and relationships through our physical senses, to what and whom we can see, hear, and touch, so we are attached to this as the ideal experience. However, limiting our ability to feel and share love, intimacy, beauty, and bliss to only that which we can see, hear, and touch, literally blunts our awareness of our innate cosmic connection to our supernal reality in which these conditions actually exist.
It would support us immensely to remember that while the terms of our relationship with our loved ones may change, the nature and reality of it doesn’t, as Real Love, in its eternality, can never “die.” To grasp this, we must rethink and process how we relate, how we love, and what actually constitutes an unconditionally loving relationship from within. Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief can be your trusted resource and guide through that process back to recognizing Real Love. Emily is a living example of someone who, instead of merely coping with her grief and sorrow, transcended those experiences to live an authentically peaceful and joyful life through spiritual self-discovery.
I met Emily through her husband and my good friend, Rev. Ron Threatt, when they attended Agape International Spiritual Center while living in Los Angeles. I saw Emily’s spiritual growth through her right use of spiritual principles in a very powerful way. When Ron passed, you could simultaneously see her sadness and loss while embracing the spiritual principles that ultimately pulled her through. Through her spiritual practice and self-realization, Emily was able to ultimately alchemize her sadness into a deeper awareness of Love, earning her invaluable revelations, insights, and the wisdom that comes with spiritual transformation that both allows and calls her to minister to and support others who are grieving from the loss of not only a loved one, but loss of any kind.
Study this book and utilize its practices. It will support you in taking back your mind, heart, and life from merely coping and getting by after loss, to living and loving—freely and unconditionally—as you you’re meant to. As Emily says, “By approaching this process with an open heart and open arms, we can all learn, love, share and be the best that we can be.”
Peace & Richest Blessings,
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Founder & Spiritual Director, Agape International Spiritual Center
Author, Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation