Writing through Grief
Grief Reflection: The Personal Blog
Grief Reflection is a term used in the Storybooks for Healing program for the process of writing, listening and sharing the stories of life, grief and finding meaning after loss. Follow the personal journal of Joan Hitchens, founder of SFH, as she navigates grief in context to her life while caring for her husband with terminal cancer, her work as SFH owner and her musing as a hospice volunteer.Read now...
Grief and Loss Archive
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12 Healing Words for the New Year
Posted on December 30, 2010 | 3 CommentsIf healing from grief after loss is in your 2011 New Year's resolutions, start with your vocabulary. Words can have a powerful affect on our well-being. Words of love and encouragement heal. Words of bitterness and pain destroy. Here are 12 Healing Words to inspire steps for a healthy and memorable new year from Storybooks for Healing. -
Grief Doesn’t Take a Holiday
Posted on December 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsGrief doesn't take a holiday. So it's up to you to carve out some time and stress-reducing strategies for coping during the winter months. Memories of a loved one who has died can bring bittersweet emotions. Here's some ideas to help you through now, and most any time of the year. -
Giving the Gift of Story
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No CommentsThe Gift of Story about a loved one after a death brings comfort, love and support. Immediately following a loss, the first stories should come from family and friends to the bereaved. Later, the tribute story is a gift from those who remember to their posterity and beyond. -
On Writing: Your Stories Can Heal Your Heart
Posted on October 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsAfter a death, it is now up to you to preserve and share the stories of your loved one. But did you know that writing can be an excellent method for facing and overcoming grief, too? Storybooks For Healing offers some writing ideas to get you started on mending your broken heart through writing. -
On the Same Page
Posted on September 2, 2010 | No CommentsFinding support to help you through grief may be as close as family and friends. But are they really on the same page as you? Being "on the same page" is a conversation with others who really “get” what you are going through in your grief. Here's why meeting strangers in a support group can be more effective in helping you cope. -
You Are the Expert on Your Grief
Posted on August 17, 2010 | 4 CommentsOne premise of the Storybooks For Healing (SFH) program is that grief is universal, yet loss is individual. Through Grief Reflection, there are three layers about your grief to understand: The universality of grief; the bond with someone who experiences the same type of loss; and your own personal, individual loss. -
Loss and Found: An Adoption Story
Posted on August 10, 2010 | 1 CommentAdoptions can be full of secrets, shame, and guilt that go on for years and years. Opening the door to the loss, the healing and the struggles as the birth mother is not easy but is worth learning what life and hope lurks behind the darkness. -
Voice of Widows Resounds Hope
Posted on August 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsGrief and loss are universal, but bring people who share the same type of loss together and it can build a special friendship, understanding and support family and friends can't always provide. The Widow's Voice blog connects people who have lost a partner through the eyes of seven different writers as they provides insight into the ups and downs of their widowed lives. -
Is it Hello or Goodbye?
Posted on July 18, 2010 | 2 CommentsIs sending a balloon tribute in memory to your loved one saying hello or goodbye? The 5th Brigade of Joint Base Ft. Lewis-McChord gathers to honor loved ones who have died.
