Small Steps Toward Transforming Grief

This journal can help you or a loved one work through the numbness despair and disorganization of grief using your head (thinking) your heart (feeling) and your hands (acting).You who meant so much to me can never be replaced. What am I going to do now that you are gone? Can what happened to you happen to me?Are these thoughts on your mind?I wont share details of my personal experiences with grief other than to say that they started when I was seven and lasted for the next twenty years. For decades after I guarded myself against feeling grief showing no response to any bad news - like this ...When they tell me you are dead my skull will shrink my eyes will burn.Ill try to moan but my throat will close.Ill not believe that you are gonewhile I still live.Thats what Ill feel.Heres what Ill do.Thank you Ill say for telling me.Does this mean youll have to move?Have you called Cousin Louise?Ill continue setting the tablefor one less.I created this journal to help you work through numbness despair and disorganization by using your three basic human talents - feeling thinking and acting; or if you like your heart your head and your hands. It provides pathways to accepting your emotions dealing with your new reality and caring for yourself. Creating it has been difficult but it has helped me move out of the past and into the present. I hope it does the same for you.IncludedA mini-workbook to get you startedClear useful valid small stepsShort practices to develop skillsSimple but profound prompts no BS no jargonPathways to change your way of thinking and actingRecommended reading to dig deeper