More Than Tears; Lifting the Burden of Grief by award-winning author, Janice Urie, tells the heart-wrenching story of her family’s recovery after the death of her teenage son. The Ritual, an excerpt from “Tears,” was a Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest first place winner.
Read an excerpt from “Tears,” and experience the author’s blunt writing style as she tells how her family dealt with the pain, guilt, anger, denial and depression. Learn from her helpful advice for the bereaved as well as their friends and co-workers. Find valuable links to grief support resources and online gift stores.
Is there really life after death? Surveys show that tens of millions of Americans believe in ESP, reincarnation, encounters with angels and similar ideas. The spiritual and paranormal occurrences in “Tears” will strengthen the reader’s faith and offer hope that their loved one’s spirit lives on.
The Ritual, an excerpt from More Than Tears won first place in the 2000 Writer's Digest Short Story Contest. Two other stories excerpted from the book, The View from the Top and Shadows were winners in the Idaho Writers' League annual statewide competitions.
Each year approximately 2,500,000 people die in the United States leaving behind millions of grievers to deal with losses they are unprepared for. Janice Urie became one of those grievers when her teenage son, Sean, was killed in a traffic accident. With blunt honesty, she tells how she, her husband and their surviving son, Ryan, dealt with the pain, guilt, anger, denial, depression and other issues common to grievers.
Letters Ms. Urie wrote to her deceased son are interspersed throughout the book and convey her desperate search for faith and the answer to the age-old question, Is there really life after death?
Readers will be intrigued with the ways in which her question was answered.
The primary message More Than Tears sends: Grief work is the hardest work you'll ever do, but you can recover and live a full and productive life.
Specific grief issues are addressed in shaded boxes at the end of each short, easy-to-read chapter. A more extensive section in the back of the book includes:
The author has had a great deal of experience in grieving but she is not a psychologist or grief counselor; therefore, no advice was included in her book until validated by similar advice in at least five different places.
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