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Creating Space to Grieve ~ Using Creative Arts After Loss

Creating Space to Grieve ~ Using Creative Arts After Loss

Grief is multidimensional, it requires more than conversation alone. Finding a therapist or grief support group is an option and often helpful if the fit is right, but it’s not the only path to healing. Building a full toolbox full of coping skills, connection, education and community with other grievers. Creative arts—writing, painting, and hands-on crafts—offer structured, evidence-informed pathways to process loss in ways that feel accessible and embodied. Creative engagement gives grief form.

36 Journal Prompts For Life After Loss

36 Journal Prompts For Life After Loss

Our dear friend Jan Haag, who blesses us every month with her “Writing As A Healing Art” workshops used these journaling prompts at our latest Wellness Retreat. (curated by Emily Stoddard). I wanted to share them with the rest of our community, because they’re simple prompts that can help even the most novice writer get started. Many of us unfairly believe we are not writers, but as Jan always says,”If you write words on a paper, you’re a writer!”