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Creative Acts of Healing: After a Baby Dies - Softcover

Van Praag, Judith; Praag, Judith Van

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Synopsis

Creative Acts of Healing: After a Baby Dies is a first person longitudinal account of loss, mourning, grief, healing and recovery. The book offers the reader a source to recognize the slow process of grief and to discover that healing can't be rushed, but may be aided. Creative Acts of Healing provides inspiration to celebrate anniversaries of the baby's birth, Mother's Day and holidays following the loss.

Creative Acts of Healing attests to the power of creativity and nature as a healing force, to consultation of ancient oracles as a mode of meditation to find inner peace and to communication as an important element of the recovery process.

How creativity brings relief during the grief process is illustrated through the author's quest to find solace by keeping a journal, writing poetry and letters, making paper, painting, drawing, crafts, sewing and needle work.

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About the Author

Judith van Praag was born and raised in The Netherlands, lived in California, Amsterdam, Paris, Austin, Texas and traveled through India. She designed sets and costumes for multicultural theater companies all over Europe, was proclaimed traveling poet by the Austin Writers' League, knows how to cook international dishes for six to sixty hungry folks, grows organic vegetables and paints floors, doors, walls and canvasses. She attended writers conferences and studied among others with Morris Berman, Janice Eidus, and Robin Hemley. She makes her home with her American husband in the United States. They are the parents of Ariane Eira who died at birth.

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