Begin Your Journey to Healing
Losing a loved one is among the most difficult things we will ever face in this life. The pain is crushing and the change in our lives is both disorienting and comprehensive. This Navigating Grief three-book set provides a much-needed framework for grief healing by establishing what we can DO and what we need to KNOW to move forward in our journey to healing.
Navigating Grief Guided Awareness Journal
Short Lessons with Writing Prompts for Healing from Loss
Navigating Grief Guided Awareness Journal contains thirty short lessons that cover a whole host of grief-healing concepts and principles, raising awareness of the grieving process, providing comforting insights, and helping you make sense of your feelings and experiences. By exploring your thoughts about each of the included lessons, you'll transform the grief-healing information of this guided journal into the grief-healing transformation you seek.
Simply read a short lesson and the six writing prompt questions that accompany each lesson (2-3 Minutes). Then, choose your prompt questions and explore your answer in the writing pages provided.
Navigating Grief Daily Action Planner
An Anchor in the Storm
Navigating Grief Daily Action Planner provides a much-needed framework for navigating loss in the first weeks and months of a grief journey. The affirmation section cultivates a healing self-conception. The gratitude section brings awareness to the good that remains in life, even after a painful loss. By focusing your attention on small but significant kindnesses, the acts of service section quiets your mind, even if only for moments at a time, and sows the seeds of goodness to grow in your own life. The self-care section serves as a daily reminder that caring for your mind, body, and spirit is non-negotiable. And by providing you with a place to log and prioritize your daily tasks, it reduces your stress. Finally, the daily review section allows you to celebrate your wins, big or small.
Navigating Grief Workbook
Exercises for Better Managing Bereavement
Navigating Grief Workbook is full of exercises and short lessons created expressly for identifying and processing the varied emotions of grief. It not only helps you identify ways you can honor the memory of your loved one while simultaneously moving forward toward acceptance of your new normal, but it also helps you acknowledge and come to terms with exactly how things have changed. Other exercises include identifying and overcoming your fears, processing the guilt and regrets that inevitably turn up in the days and weeks following the death of a loved one, developing coping strategies that serve as an anchor when the storms of grief begin to rage, and identifying secondary losses, to name just a few.
The Navigating Grief Daily Action Planner prioritizes healing and well-being over productivity and provides a much-needed daily framework for staying afloat in the first days of grief.
The Navigating Grief Guided Awareness Journal offers thirty short, grief-related lessons with six prompt questions to choose from per lesson that inspire healing reflection and understanding.
The Navigating Grief Workbook provides the bereaved with thirty workbook-style, grief-healing lessons and exercises. Each exercise is designed to inspire introspection and cultivate greater degrees of emotional literacy, both of which allow the bereaved to move forward toward healing.
What People are Saying
Even after a protracted battle with breast cancer, I wasn't prepared for the grief I experienced when my mom finally passed. The Navigating Grief Guided Awareness Journal helped me articulate my feelings and experience the peace that comes with closure.
- Kathleen Noble
I had always been extremely close with my grandma so after she passed away only a few short months after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, I felt lost. The Navigating Grief Workbook had several exercises that helped me identify ways of honoring her memory.
- Chris Ward
My father was truly bigger than life. I was heartbroken after he died and struggled with a lingering, sometimes debilitating sadness. The Navigating Grief Daily Action Planner helped put me back in the right headspace to heal and find my new normal.
- Kari Zhou
Even after a protracted battle with breast cancer, I wasn't prepared for the grief I experienced when my mom finally passed. The Navigating Grief Guided Awareness Journal helped me articulate my feelings and experience the peace that comes with closure.
- Kathleen Noble
I had always been extremely close with my grandma so after she passed away only a few short months after a terminal illness diagnosis, I felt lost. The Navigating Grief Workbook had several exercises that helped me identify ways of honoring her memory.
- Chris Ward
My Father was truly bigger than life. I was heartbroken after he died and struggled with a lingering, sometimes debilitating sadness. The Navigating Grief Daily Action Planner helped put me back in the right headspace to heal and find my new normal.
- Kari Zhou
About the Author
Jed Smith is a father, writer, and musician. He grew up in Northern Utah where, in his mid-twenties, he met and married his sweetheart and soul-mate. They had three children and enjoyed sixteen wonderful years together before she was killed in an automobile accident caused by a distracted driver. His journey through grief to healing served as the catalyst for the creation of his three-book series about Navigating Grief.
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There comes a time in our journey with grief when our intuition indicates that our season of mourning has come to an end and the time to begin the work of healing has arrived. This Navigating Grief 3-Book Set is a great way to start your season of healing.
