Understanding Your Grief Journal: Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

This companion workbook to Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence of loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of grief, seeking reconciliation, and reaching out for help. Journalers are asked specific questions about their feelings of grief as they relate to the ten essential touchstones and are provided with writing space for their reflections.

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is a teacher, grief counselor, the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is on the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School’s department of family medicine, writes the “Children and Grief” column for Bereavement Magazine, and is the author of the Understanding Your Grief series and The Journey Through Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.