Grief to Freedom Journal
A four week spiritual guide through grief to freedom
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I am so glad we are here to share this journey and walk hand-in- hand. Incorporating the single practice of journaling into your everyday living will help you get out of the deep waters of grief. This is something to grow through by writing it out.
Life offers more when we allow ourselves to embrace our grief. This is the path we take with God through love. What seems to be a total loss, pain, and failure can be transformed because with God all things are possible. [Matthew 19:26]
No matter whether you are just starting, starting over, or wondering if you will ever find peace from so much loss, recently or long ago, now is your time. Time to be lifted.
Be lifted. Receive Grace. Trust the process. Just because we heal and come to a place in our lives where we can live again, does not mean it never happened nor does it minimize our loss. What it does mean is that we discover the depths of love, and turn back to trusting God. It means that we have grown that much greater and deeper in God. Keep writing. Enjoy the journaling conversation. Be blessed.
IT IS MY PRAYER FOR YOU THAT YOU EXPERIENCE THE DIVINE GUIDANCE AND HEALING OF GOD AS I HAVE WITH THE PRACTICE OF WRITING.
Our grief is as individual as our fingerprints. As we all have unique identities and experiences, so shall we have unique griefs. The universal connection is love. We express love individually, showing our true colors to the people we are closest to and love the most. Grief is no different. Our expressions of grief will vary, showing our true colors when we grieve for the person or thing we have loved, and anxiously grasp to hold onto tightly. None of us come into the world knowing how to grieve. It is a skill we must learn, and nurture with love.
I hate that grief and love are so similar. I hate that they are two sides of the same coin that sometimes truly feels like a toss-up. Heads or tails? No matter how the toss lands, it all ends up healing and being nurtured through love. We can never lose with God.
I trust, since you have this journal, sometime in your life you have loved, and at some point the loved resonated with you. The sound was responsive and beautiful, taking you to a deeper level, and now in the absence of that person or thing you loved, the echo is deafening. As you search with your heart, there is nothing or no one for your sound to connect to and hear back from, an empty void of silence as you try to connect, nothing.
It is as if you are calling and calling for your loved one but keep getting this message. “The number you are trying to reach is no longer in service, please check your number, and dial again,” says the operator on the other end. No matter how many times you reach out to your loved one and redial, the message is the same.
Frustrated, disappointed, disabled, dysfunctional. Grief and Love.
What does the person you are calling need to know? What would you say to them, what would you say to yourself knowing you can never connect again on this side? Trust yourself enough to know you do have the answers already in you. God so generously placed everything you need within.
Use this journal as a guide over the next four weeks to get to the root of your pain, process it, and find the light again.
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About the Book
This journal is a guide to get you from grief to freedom. Each prompt is custom and builds on the day before so that by the time you are finished with the four week process you will be that much closer to experiencing freedom on the other side of your grief. Keep going, don’t give up and trust the writing process.
About the Author
Olivia Myles is a mother for five children who experience the loss of her second born son to an accidental drowning. She knows grief, and she also knows how to have a fullfilling life after grief. Olivia Myles was born and raised in San Francisco California and currently resides in Sherman Texas. She has been journaling for the past 10 years and has discovered the healing that journaling can provide. She has learned that getting past your grief requires more than inspirational words and motivating concepts. Too many grief books give you great ideas but don’t show you how to apply them. What you need (and what Olivia provides) are journal prompts that work, each created to build upon the last to help you move closer to life after grief. Olivia has a BA from the University of Texas at Dallas. She shares her life with her husband and five children. She enjoys, writing, reading, and drinking coffee with cream.