The Understanding Your Grief Journal: Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

by Alan D. Wolfelt

This companion workbook to the second edition of Dr. Wolfelt’s bestseller Understanding Your Grief helps you explore the many facets of your grief through guided journaling. After you read a section in Understanding Your Grief, the journal asks you questions about what you’ve just read. It invites you to consider, clarify, and jot down your thoughts and feelings. A good grief journal is a safe place of solace—somewhere you can express yourself no matter what you are experiencing. If you’re grieving a death or a significant loss of any kind, this journal and its companion text will help you understand and embrace your grief, actively mourn, and move toward healing. You’ll find that the journal can also be used to help honor the person who died and/or work through any lingering relationship issues. As you express your emotions in this journal, you will feel them beginning to soften as well as become more integrated into your ongoing life. Write as much as or as little as you’d like. Even just a little engagement with this journal will help you befriend your grief and give you healing momentum.

Genres: Grief, Psychology

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Birdie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Together with the book, Understanding Your Grief, this little journal allows you to work with your grief in small doses. I used it in a Grief Support Group at my church. Six of us worked through these books together. Some were just a year or two out from their loss (3 spouses, 3 sons), others as much as 17 years. We all benefited, grew and became 'unstuck'. When you decide to be more intentional in working through your grief after someone you love dies, these books are a great place to start.

[Sarah Boyette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource for leading a grief group

[Arnulfo Ybarra]

Helped me tremendously in my search to understanding what happened to me. My lost was easier to understand when writing it down. I will cherish this journal and what I wrote in it for the rest of my life. Grief and mourning are inseparable. Rest in peace in my love.