SFH Products and Services

Discover, Publish and Share with Storybooks for Healing products and programs! Writing is one of the most powerful tools to make changes in your life. Communicating with others who have experienced loss is healthy and validating. SFH programs combine these two powerful activities for you to make effective change after loss. You don’t need to forget your loved one; you need to remember! Online or in person, join in the conversation.

Self-Guided Programs

Using a private and secure internet site designed just for SFH, this journal community has professional guidance and peer support, discussion  boards, and self-paced programs for both personal growth and writing through grief. Whether you consider yourself “a writer” or not, everyone can benefit by answering the prompts designed to help you focus on what is important. You can find meaning in your loss and start on a path to healing. Using Storybooks For Healing tools you Discover, Publish and Share as little or as much of your personal journey and loved one’s story as you choose. Start right now with your free SFH Community account.

Online Journal Community: Writing for Self Reflection: Introduction

Writing for Self Reflection 1

Your SFH writing begins with a subject you know well – you! Once you create your password-protected journal you will receive weekly writing prompts to express yourself, your thoughts and feelings. How long has it been since you’ve taken time to listen to you? Check in daily to experience the significant change you desire. Writing for Self Reflection has 12 weekly thought-provoking writing prompts to get you started on a personal path to growth. Prompts are not specific to grief and loss; Self-reflection is for personal growth.
•    Free!
•    Manageable 12 week program
•    Self reflection is personal growth.
Price: Free!Join the SFH Community

Online Journal Community: More Writing for Self Reflection: Part 2

Writing for Self Reflection 2Concentrating on your life and your feelings is liberating! You are learning about how your really feel through the writing process. Don’t stop now! Personal writing is growth. If you have liked the initial 12 week SFH Writing for Self Reflection  journal, then let’s go on with this series of prompts to transform you with a year of positive change. This program may come before or after your grief writing. The time you spend investing in yourself has priceless returns in health, well being and happiness.
•    39 additional prompts focus on personal growth
•    Create the life you envision
•    Take your personal writing  further
Price: $29.95 • Available December, 2011 

Online Journal Community: Writing for Gratitude

Storybooks for Healing Writing Community: Gratitude

You’ve probably heard it before: Be present. Be grateful. Sometimes it seems too difficult to see through the tears or pain of loss, even years later. These simple prompts only ask for five minutes of your time. A few words are all that’s needed. As you complete each prompt daily over the course of 30 days, you’ll find they become easier to answer, you have more to say, and that this simple accomplishment – to be present, to be grateful – adds up to big results. You do have a choice on how you feel and little steps take you there. Start your healing journey by focusing on what is already around you. Start your day with a cup of joy by writing for gratitude.
•   30 days of writing prompts
•   Create focus and presence of mind
•   Designed to be completed in only five minutes each day
Price: $8.95

Download E-Book: Guide to Writing Your Loved One’s Story

Storybooks for Healing Start to Finish Guide

Using this Start to Finish Guide you’ll think like a writer as you research and recall stories about your loved one with fresh eyes. This process helps you talk with others who share your loss in a way that invites support and communication. You’ll have an insider’s tour of My Storybook Publisher, the SFH online center for your photos and project creation to  successfully publish quickly and easily. You’ll get tips about how to make your photos look their best when you publish. This is a put-it-all-together story system from start to finish. This guide is suggested for anyone ready to preserve and share the legacy story of a loved one who has died.  Grab that box of photos, a writing pen and the computer! If you are still having difficulty with your grief please join us in the online community first. Publishing storybooks requires internet access and basic computing skills.
•    5 Week by Week Instructions
•    Checklists to keep you on track
•    Writing Worksheets
•    Photo Organization Tools
•    Personal Publishing Account
•    Timely Tips via e-Mail
Price: $9.95

Group and Facilitated Programs

Storybooks for Healing understands people need to connect in meaningful ways in order to learn and heal. Whether face-to-face or through the technology of online privacy, finding a group of people who understand grief first hand is extremely valuable for each of the participants. Sometimes teacher, sometimes student, sharing grief and giving a voice to loss with others can help you see the path. These days, you never need to be alone in grief. Dedicate a few weeks with others so you can remember and heal.  Join a Storybooks for Healing program in your neighborhood or at your computer.

Live Group Program: The SFH Program Kit for Bereavement Specialists

Storybooks for Healing program kit

The original Storybooks for Healing program where you meet locally with a bereavement specialist in small groups over an eight week is still the most effective combination of writing and discussion. Designed to help participants delve deep into their loss and discover the important relationship, characteristics and love found in loss. As a bereavement professional you use your expertise to support participants through their grief as they use the SFH program to write and discover the impact of loss on their lives. Optionally, throughout the SFH process, participants are encouraged to preserve the photos, stories and memories by publishing a beautiful hardcover custom storybook using My Storybook Publisher (sold separately). In just a few weeks, SFH participants discover, publish and share an everlasting tribute that provides critical action steps for overcoming grief.
The Facilitator’s Guide and Program Kit are available to bereavement professionals only. Call 365.534.0203 for multi-site corporate program discounts.
•    Facilitator’s Guide with Weekly Activities and Agenda
•    Six (6) Participant Workbooks
•    One (1) Sample Storybook with Publishing Tips
Price: $325.00 order-form

The SFH  Grief Reflection Workbook

Storybooks for Healing WorkbookThe Storybooks for Healing Workbook is the focused writing space for group participants. The four sections lead participants through eight weeks of prompts to write about their loss as well as their loved one’s life. The SFH Grief Reflection Workbook  is personal and cathartic. Writers can choose to share any, all or none of their writing. The writing exercises in the Workbook are coordinated with the group activities lead by the Facilitator.

This Workbook is for use with a live or online program only. Be sure to have your group code available when placing your order.

Starting January 2012. > Join Waiting List.

Storybooks and Keepsakes to Remember

My Storybook Publisher is the exclusive SFH online publishing center for you to create beautiful high quality storybooks, cards, calendars, mugs and other keepsakes. Through the process of creating and sharing tangible items, you bring healing by celebrating the life of your loved one. Your photos. Your memories. Enjoy everyday.

Publishing Center: Storybooks

The hardcover photo storybook is the heart of the Storybooks for Healing program. There is nothing so rewarding than to open the package that contains your newly delivered storybook. More than the story of your loved one’s life, it is also your story of grief, love and understanding just how really valuable life stories are for the living. You took the time to discover the stories, work through the pain, and seek out some sense of meaning to your loss. The storybook is the legacy. Memories are safe in this book, ready to read at any time. There is no reason to forget after loss. You can wrap it up in a personal story!

Publishing Center: Keepsakes

Gifts and keepsakes are a perfect idea for sharing memories quickly and practically.

About the Author

Storybooks For Healing (SFH) is a program of remembrance for overcoming loss using Grief Reflection. SFH is offered by bereavement organizations in an 8 week group writing and discussion course. After the program, participants are prepared to publish a beautiful tribute storybook of their loved one, and are encouraged to join the SFH online community to share, teach and provide support to others in their grief journey.