Love, Loss, New Life: Writing Your Way from Grief to Happiness

By Karen Skillings

Grief and loss are universal experiences that sometimes cause people to become “stuck” in anguish or sadness. They report that long after their loss, grief interferes with their ability to eat, sleep, smile, or maintain healthy relationships.
How can grievers take an active role in moving forward into happiness? Love, Loss, New Life: Writing Your Way from Grief to Happiness invites the reader along for a poetic and surprising journey out of despair, thanks to act of writing.
Transforming emotions into physical words enables the writer to shine the powerful light of deep awareness into personal experience. This invites the presence of Soul into wounded spaces and results in deep healing- finally feeling rested and peaceful. The sun shines again, gratitude appears, ripples of joy bubble up from your center.
Let the words of these poems, musings and writing prompts encourage you to write, draw, sing your own story. Open the door to your own transformation from grief to happiness

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen Skillings
• Release date: Jul 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781777769611

Karen Skillings

I served for 45 years as a Registered Nurse: bedside nursing, BSN faculty member, Nursing Administrator, Curriculum Developer and Spiritual Director. After teaching grief and loss to nursing students, experiencing the loss of unborn babies, family, friends, and many patients, I was shocked by the anguish I felt after the death of my palliative spouse. As a poet my inclination was to write about the state of my soul in an attempt to understand this pain. I realized after healing, when reading Tolle and Wilber, that the act of writing was shining the light of conscious awareness on my grief, which opened the doors wide to healing. This book shares a 3rd way to heal from unhappiness, no matter it's cause. I wrote a book of my poems, illustrations, musings and writing prompts, "Love, Loss, New Life; Writing Your Way from Grief to Happiness" to help others find words for the state of their soul and find ways to shine their own light there and journey towards healing and happiness.

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