How to Help Kids Navigate Grief | Faith and Healing When It Hurts w/ Emily Assell

Join host Christen Clark for an important episode of the Collide Kids Podcast featuring Emily Assell, a bestselling children's book author and speaker. Dive into Emily's journey of exploring grief and God's comforting promises through her new children's book, "When It Hurts: Comforting Promises for Hard Times." This episode highlights the importance of addressing emotions, fostering open family conversations, and teaching children to lean on faith during tough times.

Tune in for this heartfelt discussion filled with stories, wisdom, and Christ-centered encouragement. And don’t miss our “Let’s Talk About It” segment for engaging family discussion questions.

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Navigating Layers of Grief: "You know, I think I had started experiencing grief on a couple different levels all at once. I had had my grandma pass...So I was dealing with some grief there. At the same time, I volunteer for an organization that helps families who have fostered and adopted kids. And I saw that they were experiencing so much pain... So it's kind of this whole spread of different grief and really on different levels."
— Emily Assell [00:07:44 → 00:08:23]

"Exploring Divine Comfort: The Biblical Response to Grief": "And I think the Bible has the answer to every problem that we could ever come across. It deals with every situation, and the Holy Spirit shows us how that works."
— Emily Assell [00:08:38 → 00:08:48]

"The Importance of Acknowledging Children's Challenges": "But it's not really a big deal, because to us, those are small problems, but to a kid, they are really big problems."
— Emily Assell [00:09:56 → 00:10:03]

"Letting Go of Guilt and Anger: A Spiritual Perspective": "When we realize that Jesus says he is the one who takes the blame for all of the pain in the world, he already paid the price for that, whether he caused it or not, which we know a lot of. He did not. But being able to say, you don't need to hold on to the guilt, you don't need to hold onto the anger, we can give all of that stuff to Jesus."
— Emily Assell [00:14:42 → 00:15:01]

"Finding Safe Spaces for Grief": "I think sometimes we think that it's easier to not tell other people or talk to other people about our pain because we think it's gonna make their pain worse or we think that it's gonna go away or we feel embarrassed about something."
— Emily Assell [00:16:39 → 00:16:51]

"The Power of Acknowledging Pain": "I think sometimes we are afraid to ask because we don't know what the answer is. But to be able to even just acknowledge that someone's going through pain, we're going through pain as a group and then if we don't have to fix the problem. But it's so important to be able to be heard."
— Emily Assell [00:17:15 → 00:17:28]

"Emotions as Allies: They're supposed to help us to tune into ourselves. They're supposed to

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