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...
perspective 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. -
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. -
Perspectives
Posted on July 6, 2010 | 1 CommentThe hard work of processing your pain of grief may require a change in perspective. Can loss become gain, and sorrow become joy through conscious efforts to see these options? I think so, as optical illusions show us.
