Hard Seasons

For a hard moment, a few words written to you

Tell us your first name and what you’re carrying. A short reflection, written for you by name, will appear right here. It’s free, always, and it isn’t sent to anyone.

The Glimpse Library

We put books in the rooms where people wait

Hospital family rooms, hospices, comfort care homes, grief groups: Glimpse places books in the hands of people going through the hardest days of their lives, free to the people who receive them.

If you serve people in a hard season, as a hospice, a grief group, a chaplain, a counselor or a support group, tell us about them. We’ll find the right books and guides for the people in your care.

Tell us about the people you serve
How a Project Care Package works →

Something to hold

The Still Point guides: short, plain books for one hard thing at a time.

For a loss no one sent a card for

The Grief No One Talks About Free

A friend who drifted, a parent who is still alive but gone, a pregnancy, a pet, a marriage: each one given a name, a place, and one small thing to do.

For 2 a.m.

My Mind Just Won’t Stop

For the mind that runs all day and louder at night: how to find the quiet center underneath the noise.

For when you don’t recognize yourself

I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore

When a role ends, a body changes, or a faith breaks: finding the steady self that was underneath all along.

For the one who can’t stand down

If I Stop, Everything Falls Apart

How to tell the pressure that is wearing you down from the pressure that is growing you, and set the first kind down.

For starting over, again

Why Do I Keep Quitting?

Not another plan: the one skill plans leave out, which is how to come back after you slip.

See the Still Point guides →

A true story of starting again

A memoir

A Heart’s Second Chance

The day a heart stopped, the people who ran toward it, and how a family learned to live again afterward. It includes scenes of emergency care.

If you need more than a book

If you are thinking about ending your life, or you’re not sure you can get through the next hour, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is free and open all day, every day.

For the weeks and seasons, not only the emergencies, we keep a page of real, staffed places to turn. Where to find help →

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