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Description
A workbook designed to guide the bereaved through grief using a clinically-informed, structured storytelling method, this book gives readers the ability to disclose their suffering and work toward healing and reconcile with their loss using narrative writing. Based upon her research and the 'expressive storytelling' method she created, Linita Eapen Mathew calls upon her own experiences losing her father along with carefully structured narrative exercises to teach readers how they can write, re-examine, revise, and re-write their grief story to work towards a point of clarity and release. Leaning into grief theory and trauma-informed and therapeutic writing research, Writing Through Grief allows readers to create a complete and consistent account of their experiences to help them process events that unfolded, release trauma, and relieve the intense reactions and responses to the loss of both the living and the deceased.
With each chapter combining Eapen's personal narrative with expressive storytelling exercises alongside discussion of the research behind them for context, this book offers readers a creative, productive but emotionally sensitive approach to handling grief. Whether guided by a trained psychologist, a workshop instructor or writing in the comfort of a personal space, writers can disclose their suffering and work toward healing and reflection through creative writing.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter Overview
Introduction
I. Egg: Remembering Your Story
I. A Writing Space for the Senses: How Place and Atmosphere Matter
II. Designing Safety Protocols for Storytelling
III. Using Introspection and Chronicling to Establish Timelines
IV. Write it Out: Expressive Writing (Draft I)
II. Larva: Revisiting Your Story
V. Plot it Out: The Art of Storytelling (Draft II, Part I)
VI. The Language of Your Story (Draft II, Part II)
VII. Cornerstone One: Relationship Building
VIII. Cornerstone Two: Designing a Blueprint of Grief
IX. Cornerstone Three: Strengthening Spiritual Health
X. Cornerstone Four: Leaving a Lasting Footprint
XI. Flesh it Out: Expressive Storytelling (Draft III)
III. Pupa: Revising Your Story
XII. The Poetry of Grief
XIII. Revising, Reworking, and Rewriting
IV. Adult: Reinforcing Your Story
XIV. Painting a Picture: A Polished Draft (Draft IV)
Conclusion
Still, A Poem
Afterword
Biography
Product details
| Published | May 13 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350617032 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 2 b&w illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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