Creative Ways to Grieve - by Y Y Chan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Have you lost a loved one and find it challenging to cope and deal with the loss? Are you having difficulty expressing your emotions and feelings openly and honestly? Have you ever thought about embracing and using your emotions to create something meaningful while still honoring your loved one?

This guided grief journal can help you find outlets to release and express your feelings and emotions in creative ways. Through this process, you can explore your creativity and may also uncover hidden talents you never knew you had.

With the prompts provided in this journal, you can use your experience in the grief journey to create some beautiful and unique masterpieces. It can be in all forms, from letters, stories, paintings, movies, songs, poems, photography, etc. The possibilities are endless. Some of the world's most impactful stories, artworks, songs and movies have come from grief. Express your feelings and emotions in a healthy manner through the use of this guided journal and share your unique experience and perspective with the world. Connect and start conversations with others on the journey using what you have created and the stories you have written. Help and support each other through grief. Your grief can become a gift and your superpower.

This journal would make a thoughtful gift for friends or family who may be grieving or going through loss of loved ones. It will also be helpful and encouraging for those who may find it difficult to talk about and express their feelings and emotions.

What's in the journal?

• Mood tracker and self-care tips.
• Lined pages with prompts and questions for journaling, letter writing, reflection, notes, etc.
• Lined pages for free journal writing.
• Uplifting quotes and Bible Scriptures.
• A wide range of creative activities to help you remember and honor your loved ones.
• Coloring pages.

Review Quotes

From the Foreword:

"Y. Y. Chan has created this beautiful grief journal to guide you through the healing journey. Journaling will help you deal with complicated emotions, but also to remember your loved ones and the wonderful moments spent together. As I see it, this grief journal will help you keep the memory of those you lost alive. With kindness and empathy, the author reminds you of all the things that mattered, so you can feel at peace with yourself.

Thanks to her selfless guidance, you might find the courage to do things that would have been otherwise difficult to try. For instance, writing a letter to someone you lost, expressing your emotions grief has brought to the surface, or taking some quiet time to reflect on your healing journey. The beautiful quotes sprinkled in-between will help you see grief as the "price of love", and not something to be denied.

I highly recommend this grief journal to anyone who is dealing with loss, finding it hard to heal. I have used it myself, and it was such a liberating experience, exactly the emotional release I needed.

I wish you a peaceful, healing journey!"

". . .The pages guide your thoughts so memories are triggered and forgotten times are remembered. I use this book to remember both of my late husbands, both gone too soon. They had many qualities in common, which I hadn't fully understood until I did some of the exercises in this book. . . I'm enjoying the process and will treasure this book as well as all it holds."

"Wish I'd had this when my mom passed away. These exercises are really helpful, especially the memories and the letters to the loved one. Beautifully done!"

"I love every single page in this journal. I especially love that you can color the background of most pages. This brings a fun artistic twist to journaling. I love that the author published this journal from her own experience and it shows. This guided journal, will definitely help while you are going through a tough time in life."

"This journal offers so many different ways to cope with grief, from mood tracking and self-care tips to writing down your feelings about your loved one. . . Putting these thoughts down in writing, or pictures, or expressing them in some other way is such a great release and you'll find lots of really wonderful ideas in this journal to help you do that. It's also going to be lovely to look back through the journal and remember my loved one in the future. I can't recommend this book enough."