RESTORED: A Grief and Loss Workbook with Grief Healing Techniques, Grief Journal, and Grief Exercises for Adults, Grief Support Groups, and Grief Counseling
About this ebook
Are you suffering from a heartbreaking loss? In your grief are you experiencing yearning, longing, disbelief, extreme sadness, confusion, numbness, overwhelm, exhaustion, insomnia, anger, inability to focus, agitation, or anxiety? Do you feel you have lost a part of yourself?
After working with hundreds of grieving clients over the course of twenty years, Licensed Counselor, Marilyn Willis developed this proven step by step process to help you navigate through a heartbreaking loss to the restoration of your life. This workbook is beneficial for survivors of loss, and those who desire to provide comfort.
Discover how to:
-Understand what leads to healing through examining resilient survivors
-Reestablish order in your heart, mind, and days
-Develop resilient building self-care techniques
-Clarify and release difficult feelings through guided journaling
-Overcome your unique challenges to healing with simple exercises
-Smile again at sweet memories as you find space to share about your loved one
-Cultivate peace as you apply grief healing rituals
-Reflect and gently engage with your new beginning
-Create a plan and prepare for grief triggers such as holidays and anniversaries
-Discover how to gain meaning from your loss
-Rebuild purpose for the days ahead
Find restoration for your physical functioning, mental clarity, emotional stability, interest in people and activities, and purpose for your future. Every grief journey starts with a first step. Marilyn Willis took her first step at fifteen years old after her mother died from cancer. Are you ready to take your first step toward restoration? Order your copy today. Available in Kindle and paperback.
🥇GOLD MEDAL WINNER Grief / Hardship Category by Readers Favorite
FINALIST Health: Death & Dying Category by 2020 Best Book Awards
🥉BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Grieving / Death Dying Category by LivingNow Book Awards
ENDORSED by Grief Experts and Community Leaders:
★★★★★ "An excellent resource to rely on over and over as one moves through grief...offers a brilliant framework to assist the mourner in a step by step process to the restoration of body, mind, and spirit." -Susie Kuszmar, LMFT, Creator and Director of nationally awarded FOOTSTEPS Hospital Bereavement program
★★★★★ "Being a mother who lost her son to cancer, and has been through grief counseling and grief groups, this particular grief workbook goes deeper into the pit of emotional and spiritual pain and shines a bright light on the path-way out of that dark place."- Lacene Downing, former Manager of international funeral services company and grief group facilitator
★★★★★ "It brings the grief group experience, that so many in our hospice and community have benefited from, directly to your home and heart." - Mary Wall, RNC, the President of the Board for Kauai Hospice
★★★★★ "I have been touched and educated by this #1 new release on Amazon. I highly recommend this workbook to anyone who has experienced a loss."- Mark Whitacre, Ph.D., Executive Director Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.
★★★★★ "What a masterpiece... thorough, practical, tender, and personal! There is so much honoring of the deceased in the healing process. This could be used privately, but also it would be powerful to walk through with either a counselor or small group."- Leah Green, Navigators Marriage Getaway Co-Director
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About the author
Every grief journey starts with a first step. Author, Marilyn Willis, took her first step at fifteen years old after her mother died from cancer. Her healing began in high school when she joined a grief group. Recognizing the healing power of community, Marilyn has been leading grief groups ever since and has seen the content, dialogues and exercises found in the RESTORED workbook restore lives.
Mary Wall, RNC, the President of the Board for Kauai Hospice stated, “Marilyn was hired as our bereavement coordinator and quickly became the best bereavement coordinator I have worked with. Marilyn was most well known in the community for the impactful grief groups she led for Gentiva Hospice families and the community. All her members felt accepted, understood and more at peace after completing the group. In RESTORED, Marilyn has been able to bring the grief group experience, that so many in our hospice and community have benefited from, directly to your home and heart. Sharing the stories of many survivors of loss, this workbook gives you a place to process your loss, learn about common reactions to grief and engage in practices that help you reflect on the changes taking place in your life.”
Marilyn Willis is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, who graduated from Colorado Christian University with a Master of Arts in Counseling. Over the past twenty years, Marilyn has been leading grief groups at churches, nursing homes, and as a hospice bereavement coordinator.
Editor: Rachelle Walker PhD
Foreword by: Mary Wall, RNC, BSA Nursing Administration
President of the Board for Kauai Hospice
Former VP Nursing Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, CO
Co-founder and Former Director of Hospice of the Comforter
(now part of Gentiva, an affiliate of Kindred at Home)
