The sky looks different - A Grief Notebook is a simple lined bereavement journal for writing and sketching to help you move through life after loss.Intended as a companion to The sky looks different - A Grief Journal (a daily grief journal with prompts) and The sky looks different - A Grief Sketchbook (a blank visual diary for drawing). After losing someone special it's like a piece of you is missing. The world seems to move a little slower and everything seems a little less bright. Days and nights are filled with memories and questions pop up which only they could answer. There are the parts of your day you wish you could share with them, and then there's the 'I love you's' you wish you could tell them just one more time. Work through your grief and sorrow by expressing thoughts, memories and feelings through journaling, it can be of tremendous help for healing. The sky looks different - A Grief Notebook features: LINED PAGES: Over 100 simple lined pages for you to write freely. CONVENIENT SIZE: This paperback journal is a handy 6" x 9" size, perfect for throwing in the handbag or backpack. It comes perfect bound with high quality (60GSM) crisp white paper. BEAUTIFUL IMAGERY: Professional photography as wraparound artwork on a 220GSM soft cover notebook with an elegant matte finish. There's no right or wrong way to experience grief. It's unpredictable, and messy, and can seem to go on forever. Some days you seem to do ok, other days it's almost unbearable. But getting it all out on paper does help. This grief notebook is the perfect companion (or gift) for anyone grieving the loss of someone special. Start your healing journey today. Also available as a daily prompt journal and a blank sketchbook, complete your set with all three designs. Alternative cover designs also available through our Author Book Hub.
The sky looks different - A Grief Sketchbook is a simple blank sketchbook for drawing and sketching to help you move through life after loss.Intended as a companion to The sky looks different - A Grief Journal (a daily grief journal with prompts) and The sky looks different - A Grief Notebook (a lined journal/notebook). After losing someone special it's like a piece of you is missing. The world seems to move a little slower and everything seems a little less bright. Days and nights are filled with memories and questions pop up which only they could answer. There are the parts of your day you wish you could share with them, and then there's the 'I love you's' you wish you could tell them just one more time. Work through your grief and sorrow by expressing thoughts, memories and feelings through drawing, it can be of tremendous help for healing. The sky looks different - A Grief Sketchbook features: BLANK PAGES: Over 100 simple blank pages for you to write, draw and sketch freely. CONVENIENT SIZE: This paperback visual diary is a handy 6" x 9" size, perfect for throwing in the handbag or backpack. It comes perfect bound with high quality (60GSM) crisp white paper. BEAUTIFUL IMAGERY: Professional photography as wraparound artwork on a 220GSM soft cover notebook with an elegant matte finish. There's no right or wrong way to experience grief. It's unpredictable, and messy, and can seem to go on forever. Some days you seem to do ok, other days it's almost unbearable. But getting it all out on paper does help. This grief sketchbook is the perfect companion (or gift) for anyone grieving the loss of someone special. Start your healing journey today. Also available as a daily prompt journal and a lined notebook, complete your set with all three designs. Alternative cover designs also available through our Author Book Hub.
The sky looks different - A Grief Journal is a bereavement diary with daily writing prompts and space for remembrance to help you move through life after loss. After losing someone special it's like a piece of you is missing. The world seems to move a little slower and everything seems a little less bright. Days and nights are filled with memories and questions pop up which only they could answer. There are the parts of your day you wish you could share with them, and then there's the 'I love you's' you wish you could tell them just one more time. Work through your grief and sorrow with this daily journal that prompts you to make sense of all those jumbled thoughts and memories as they flood in. Note down your mood and energy levels, share your day and speak to your special person just like you would before. It'll never be the same but it may just help you find a new kind of normal. Inside this guided journal you'll find: REMEMBRANCE PAGES: Four lined pages and four blank pages for remembering your special someone and adding in photos or sketches. DAILY PROMPT PAGES: A two-page spread for each day - use these undated pages to write down the memories that pop up, to share your day with them and to note down all the questions you wish you could ask. ENERGY & MOOD TRACKING: Quickly note down your mood and energy levels. LINED PAGES: Each day there's a whole page just for you to write freely. CONVENIENT SIZE: This paperback journal is a handy 6" x 9" size, with 110 pages (including 50 undated daily spreads). It comes perfect bound with high quality (60GSM) crisp white paper. BEAUTIFUL IMAGERY: Professional photography as wraparound artwork on a 220GSM soft cover notebook with an elegant matte finish. There's no right or wrong way to experience grief. It's unpredictable, and messy, and can seem to go on forever. Some days you seem to do ok, other days it's almost unbearable. But getting it all out on paper does help. This grief journal is the perfect companion (or gift) for anyone grieving the loss of someone special. Start your healing journey today. Also available as a plain lined notebook and a blank sketchbook, complete your set with all three designs. Alternative cover designs also available through our Author Book Hub.
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer's patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss? In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with such ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. Suffered too long, these emotions can deaden feeling and make it impossible for people to move on with their lives. Yet the central message of this book is that they can move on. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that can cushion the pain and help families come to terms with their grief. Her work features the heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous loss and manage to leave their sadness behind, including those who have lost family members to divorce, immigration, adoption, chronic mental illness, and brain injury. With its message of hope, this eloquent book offers guidance and understanding to those struggling to regain their lives. Table of Contents: 1. Frozen Grief 2. Leaving without Goodbye 3. Goodbye without Leaving 4. Mixed Emotions 5. Ups and Downs 6. The Family Gamble 7. The Turning Point 8. Making Sense out of Ambiguity 9. The Benefit of a Doubt Notes Acknowledgments Reviews of this book: You will find yourself thinking about the issues discussed in this book long after you put it down and perhaps wishing you had extra copies for friends and family members who might benefit from knowing that their sorrows are not unique...This book's value lies in its giving a name to a force many of us will confront--sadly, more than once--and providing personal stories based on 20 years of interviews and research. --Pamela Gerhardt, Washington Post Reviews of this book: A compassionate exploration of the effects of ambiguous loss and how those experiencing it handle this most devastating of losses ... Boss's approach is to encourage families to talk together, to reach a consensus about how to mourn that which has been lost and how to celebrate that which remains. Her simple stories of families doing just that contain lessons for all. Insightful, practical, and refreshingly free of psychobabble. --Kirkus Review Reviews of this book: Engagingly written and richly rewarding, this title presents what Boss has learned from many years of treating individuals and families suffering from uncertain or incomplete loss...The obvious depth of the author's understanding of sufferers of ambiguous loss and the facility with which she communicates that understanding make this a book to be recommended. --R. R. Cornellius, Choice Reviews of this book: Written for a wide readership, the concepts of ambiguous loss take immediate form through the many provocative examples and stories Boss includes, All readers will find stories with which they will relate...Sensitive, grounded and practical, this book should, in my estimation, be required reading for family practitioners. --Ted Bowman, Family Forum Reviews of this book: Dr. Boss describes [the] all-too-common phenomenon [of unresolved grief] as resulting from either of two circumstances: when the lost person is still physically present but emotionally absent or when the lost person is physically absent but still emotionally present. In addition to senility, physical presence but psychological absence may result, for example, when a person is suffering from a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia or depression or debilitating neurological damage from an accident or severe stroke, when a person abuses drugs or alcohol, when a child is autistic or when a spouse is a workaholic who is not really 'there' even when he or she is at home...Cases of physical absence with continuing psychological presence typically occur when a soldier is missing in action, when a child disappears and is not found, when a former lover or spouse is still very much missed, when a child 'loses' a parent to divorce or when people are separated from their loved ones by immigration...Professionals familiar with Dr. Boss's work emphasised that people suffering from ambiguous loss were not mentally ill, but were just stuck and needed help getting past the barrier or unresolved grief so that they could get on with their lives. --Asian Age Combining her talents as a compassionate family therapist and a creative researcher, Pauline Boss eloquently shows the many and complex ways that people can cope with the inevitable losses in contemporary family life. A wise book, and certain to become a classic. --Constance R. Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce A powerful and healing book. Families experiencing ambiguous loss will find strategies for seeing what aspects of their loved ones remain, and for understanding and grieving what they have lost. Pauline Boss offers us both insight and clarity. --Kathy Weingarten, Ph.D, The Family Institute of Cambridge, Harvard Medical School
Just when everything seems to be going wrong, hope—and love—can appear in the most unexpected places. Summer has begun, the beach beckons—and Francesca Schnell is going nowhere. Four years ago, Francesca’s little brother, Simon, drowned, and Francesca’s the one who should have been watching. Now Francesca is about to turn sixteen, but guilt keeps her stuck in the past. Meanwhile, her best friend, Lisette, is moving on—most recently with the boy Francesca wants but can’t have. At loose ends, Francesca trails her father, who may be having an affair, to the local country club. There she meets four-year-old Frankie Sky, a little boy who bears an almost eerie resemblance to Simon, and Francesca begins to wonder if it’s possible Frankie could be his reincarnation. Knowing Frankie leads Francesca to places she thought she’d never dare to go—and it begins to seem possible to forgive herself, grow up, and even fall in love, whether or not she solves the riddle of Frankie Sky.
First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” —Buddha The loss of a loved one is one of the most difficult things a person can endure, and it is all too easy to lose sight of ourselves in the experience of grief. Yet it is in these times of trouble, when comfort is most needed, that it seems hardest to find. When I Look to the Sky is a collection of thoughts, prayers, and poems, carefully selected to provide those who grieve with much-needed strength and support in their darkest moments. Serving as a source of both emotional support and personal guidance, When I Look to the Sky helps put things in perspective, allowing each of us to come to terms with loss in our own way, and in our own time. When I Look to the Sky mixes hope with introspection, sorrow with beauty, and loss with love. Its timeless quotes and captivating verses belong in the hands of anyone who looks to the sky for answers.
"I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.
Grief journal for all the people that experienced a loss and are going through the hardest period of their life ♥ This journal is designed to help you cope with grief and overcome sadness. Use it as a diary of all the things you wish you could tell to your late love, a journal to keep memories and a notebook to record your feelings, emotions, moods. Tracking and recording your emotions can greatly help you in overcoming the sadness and keep all the memories for the eternity ♥ Notebook features: Size: small 6 x 9 inch (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 101 Pages Great gift idea for any mom, dad, parent, boyfriend, girlfriend, fiance, partner dealing with beloved person's death.
From New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky--twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn--that serves as a loyal companion for life's curveballs A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places--from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway--and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic. My Inner Sky empowers us to transform everything that's happened to us into something meaningful, reassurance that even in our darkest times, there's light and beauty to be found.
