As Long as You Need

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers both permission and a process to grieve and heal at your own pace. In As Long as You Need, J.S. offers an honest, unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving—spiritual, mental, physical, and relational—and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way.

If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients. In his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a level-one trauma center, he understands how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound.

From his unique window into the experiences of the ill, injured, dying, and their families—from the ER to deliveries to deathbeds—J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people in all walks of life. Through this book he assures you that, while others might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need.