Held Through the Hurt Companion Leader’s Guide: Supporting Teens Through Grief with Faith, Compassion, and Care
Held Through the Hurt Companion Leader’s Guide
Supporting Teens Through Grief with Faith, Compassion, and Care
Grieving teens need more than information. They need safe adults who will listen patiently, respect their feelings, make room for honest questions, and remind them that they are not alone.
The Held Through the Hurt Companion Leader’s Guide provides a compassionate, faith-centered framework for using the teen coloring and reflection book in churches, grief ministries, families, youth groups, and support-group settings.
This guide helps caring adults lead meaningful conversations without pressuring teens to disclose more than they are ready to share.
Inside the guide:
- Teen-centered, trauma-aware grief education
- Faith-sensitive conversation guidance
- Support for all 20 chapters of the teen book
- Flexible 60–75-minute session plans
- NIV Scripture, prayers, activities, and reflection prompts
- Guidance for confidentiality and its limits
- Strategies for creating emotionally safe groups
- Caregiver communication and follow-up tools
- Safety, referral, and professional-support guidance
- Reproducible ministry planning forms
Designed for:
- Ministry and youth leaders
- Grief-ministry facilitators
- Pastors and church volunteers
- Parents and caregivers
- Christian support-group leaders
- Other trusted adults serving teens ages 13–18
Available as a premium full-color printed guide, an individual-use digital PDF, or an Organizational Digital License.
The individual digital edition is licensed only to the purchaser. Churches, ministries, programs, and organizations needing access for multiple leaders must purchase an Organizational Digital License.
This guide supports—but does not replace—licensed grief counseling, professional mental-health treatment, diagnosis, or emergency care.
