Grace Notes- A Compassionate Walk with Grief
Here is what I have been working on for the last six months. First, a request from a social worker led me to contemplate how to support high school students who were experiencing grief. Secondly a significant untimely death of an eight-year-old, Anna Grace, the granddaughter of a dear friend, left a family and communities reeling. Processing my own grief as well as walking with others through grief helped me create Grace Notes.
Creating this reminded me of the time when I was writing my book to tell my own healing story. It was so challenging, I often had to call my husband to remind me that yes, indeed we made it through to the other side. I felt the same way working on this project. I was dealing with grief and creating this helped me process it.
There are many forms of grief. While most often we think of grieving the loss of a loved one, I believe many of us are suffering from Ambiguous Grief. This type of grief happens with the loss of friendships, connections, transitions, estrangement from family members, etc. Often there is no closure, no ritual to mark the change. I think that many people in the world are suffering grief from Covid, because we have never ritualized how it changed us. We continue to add grief to our bodies, and eventually our body breaks down with disease.
This little journal is filled with meditations, suggested activities, coloring pages, and journal pages to help you process your grief. Maybe you are active and love to walk. Walking is a wonderful way to help grief move from the body. Maybe you like to color, or sit in meditation, or let your grief pour out in a journal. I have you covered!
Be sure to check it out!
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