Books That Comfort, Empower, and Uplift

BelShay House was founded by Ta’Shay Mason to help children navigate grief and loss with compassion and understanding. As an author, Ta’Shay creates beautifully written and thoughtfully illustrated books that guide children and families through some of life’s most challenging moments, all while giving them hope, language, and a sense of peace.

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Meet The Author

Author Ta’Shay Mason is an Army Veteran, retired federal employee, and loves writing.

She volunteers as a group grief facilitator. She believes in inspiring others through storytelling. Her writing has helped families deal with grief.

As a child, she experienced the acute loss of her father; and her inspiration for the A Child’s Journey Through Grief series comes from her personal journey.

In sharing her message of overcoming grief, Ta’Shay hopes that readers with a similar experience can identify with the story’s family, learn a creative way of memorializing a loved one, that grief is a process and takes time, and that having a healthy and open conversation about death is helpful to that process.

Once she completes A Child’s Journey Through Grief series, she will write other children’s books covering various subjects.

When Ta’Shay isn’t busy writing stories for children, she enjoys reading books, listening to a variety of music, and collecting vinyl.

She loves to hike and travel and spend time with her family, including her relatives, her fur baby—an English bulldog named Bella—friends, and fellow veterans.

Why These Books Matter

Written from real-life experience

Designed to spark conversation between children and caregivers

Includes tips and guides for parents, counselors, and educators

Featured on podcasts, TV, and in grief support communities

“I wrote these stories because I lived through the pain of loss as a child — and I wanted other children to feel seen, understood, and safe.”

Featured titles

"But I don’t want to say GOODBYE!"

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In this poignant and heartfelt book, author Ta’Shay Mason expertly crafts a tender story about how to make peace with the death of a parent…by honoring them.

Through soft and soothing words, the author weaves a story that shares both the commonality and uniqueness of loss, with the mother and child coming up with their own special way to honor and remember their beloved family member.

"But i don’t want to say GOODBYE!" is a perfect book to help any family experiencing grief and also for those young readers who might need help in understanding someone else who is going through a loss. The death of a loved one is never easy to understand, let alone speak about.

But for a little girl whose father has just died, the hardest thing is figuring out how to say goodbye. As Mommy makes funeral arrangements and tries to figure out the best way to say goodbye to a man who was loved by many, the little girl must find her own way to come to peace with her father’s death.

As the funeral gets closer, will she find a way to say goodbye?

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"But I Don't Want To Say Goodbye"

"It's okay to be happy!"

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The second book "It's Ok To Be Happy!" continues to follow her journey as the little girl tries to navigate through life without her father.

Jazmine was able to say goodbye to her daddy at his funeral, but she still has so many questions. Why did her Daddy die? How can she move on without him? And is it okay to be happy again? With Mommy’s help, will Jazmine find a way to remember her daddy and still live her own life? Or will she be sad forever?

The themes in the book deal with support group for children, equine-assisted therapy, different ways to remember a loved one.