Are you grieving or do you know someone who is? Here is a book written by
my sister, Yvonne Osko, M. A. BCCC. It will help you through the dark
hours of your grief.
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How to Journey Through the Grief of Losing Someone
Practical guide delivers help for surviving the grieving process
—When you lose someone you love, it’s hard to know where to turn. When
someone you love is grieving a loss, it’s daunting to figure out just
what to say and do. The Unwelcome Journey: Understanding the
Journey of Grief (paperback, 978-1-60266-405-0) provides the
answers. If you’ve lost someone, you will find the affirmation and
encouragement you need to go on. If you’re trying to help a grieving
friend or family member, this book will help you develop more effective
ways to meet his or her needs.
Author and grief counselor Yvonne D. Osko hopes her book will touch the
hearts of those who sincerely want to help the hurting. She delivers
new insights, helpful suggestions, and solid advice for walking through
the process of grieving. And Osko speaks from experience, “I’ve walked
my own personal journey of grief following the death of my daughter by
car accident in 1979 and death of my husband by car accident in 1992.”
Written with the compassion of a grief survivor and the skill of a
veteran counselor, The Unwelcome Journey is destined to become an
indispensable resource for the bereaved and those who love them.
Yvonne D. Osko, M.A., BCCC is an International Board Certified Christian
Counselor and a Personal Life Coach. She served with her husband in
pastoral ministry in Music, Christian education and counseling for more
than thirty years. After his death in 1992, she moved to Southern
California and, since 1994, has served as leader of the Grief Support
Group at The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. She is a member of The
American Association of Christian Counselors, The Christian Coaches
Network, and The Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network.
She works at the Wilshire Avenue Community Church in Fullerton,
California.
Books are available at
yvonneosko@earthlink.net,
Amazon.com, and some Christian Book Stores
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Personal Life Coaching is available at
yvonneosko@earthlink.net
The Publisher, Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation,
is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,200 titles
published to date. Retailers may order The Unwelcome Journey
through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.
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The following is a page out of the life of a very important person, the president of ItsYourNet, LLC. I like it so much for its emphasis on doing it yourself.
In closing this two-part training, I will share a
success story about myself with you...
Let me take you back to when I was just a young girl at 13 years of age...
I come from a family of seven children.
My dad was in the military, after retiring he became a tool and die maker.
My mother was a house wife caring for us as children.
I share this with you because it will lead into what happened to me when I was a
child...
During that time in my life my hobby was roller skating and I was a member of a
roller
skating team.
Our team was planning an event to compete in a state competition and all the
team
members were talking about buying new roller shakes. This lead me to ask my dad
about buying me some new roller skates.
His response was; "Honey I have all I can do to keep the roof over our head,
clothes
on our back, and food in our mouth." He then said; "I will not stop you from
earning
the money to buy them for yourself."
Honestly, with that statement I felt bad inside that he couldn't buy them for
me, I admit,
but what I did was to find away to get them.
The following day I asked my younger twin sisters of 11 years of age to help me
set
up a lemonade and hotdog stand outside our home. We boiled a very large box of
hotdogs
that my dad would keep in the deep freezer. We also made several gallons of
lemonade.
My sisters made the signs and taped them to our picnic table, we were in
business on a
hot summer day.
When the day was coming to a end, before my dad came home, we had sold enough
hotdogs and lemonade to replace the box of hotdogs in his freezer. After
splitting the
difference, and paying my sisters for their assistance, I had enough money to
buy the
roller skates.
During our dinner meal I was sad because when telling my dad what we did, I
failed to
sell enough to pay for his gasoline to take me to buy the roller skates.
Now my dad was a great man, because his response taught me a lesson that I have
carried
all my life.
He said to me; "Honey I will gladly take you to buy them, you have learned a
very
important lesson from all of this. I told you I would not stop you from earning
the money
to get them yourself. I am so proud of you for showing me that the answer NO did
not sit
well with you. That you did what it took to get them yourself."
As we gear up to take ItsYourNet to the next level I realize just how important
each and
everyone of you are.
Moody, YOU are now our goal and we MUST teach you well, this formula to Success.
Ms. Mary McCammon affectionately known as
Angel
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Angel, One reason I am so impressed, I guess is because of a similar experience of mine. We were a poor family and my Daddy was pressed to make ends meet too. I took on the task of selling GRIT newspapers. It was during the war when everything was rationed. Knowing he could not purchase a bicycle for me, I asked him if he could arrange somehow to get me a bike to take my papers around with and let me pay him back out of my earnings. He told me to apply for a permit, and if I got it, he would see what he could do. I applied and got the permit. To this day I don't know how he arranged to get that bike, but each week after I sold my papers I would go and give him $2. or $3. until I had paid for my bike. Thank God for our Dad's who were so wise to teach us that lesson, "Make Life for Yourself!"
