title: Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick's Path from Loss to Hope
author:  Elizabeth Berrien 
description: <div>"Berrien patiently retraces her path through grief and you notice her emerge as an old soul with a resolute spirit and a new found vitality that embodies hope." -<i>Deanna Ultroske for Digital Book World</i></div><div><div></div><div></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div></div></div><br /><br /><div><i>"</i>Creative Grieving is a book for anyone suffering a loss. We all do suffer differently but understanding that, even with our differences our losses are similar, helps to make that loss more bearable. Elizabeth Berrien understands this fact." -<i>Samantha Rivera for Readers' Favorite</i></div>
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  Bessy's Troubles at Home  
    
  
  
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  # Bessy's Troubles at Home
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Gaskell
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Well, mother, I've got you a Southport ticket," said Bessy Lee, as she burst
  into a room where a pale, sick woman lay
  
  
  dressed on the outside of a bed. "Aren't you glad?" asked she, as her mother
  moved uneasily, but did not speak.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Yes, dear, I'm very thankful to you; but your sudden coming in has made my
  heart flutter so, I'm ready to choke."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Poor Bessy's eyes filled with tears; but, it must be owned, they were tears
  half of anger. She had taken such pains,
  
  
  ever since the doctor said that Southport was the only thing for her mother,
  to get her an order from some subscriber
  
  
  to the charity, and she had rushed to her, in the full glow of success; and
  now her mother seemed more p