The Healing Journal


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Write to feel better—with 50 positive affirmations, writing prompts, and soothing illustrations inspired by nature to help people overcome the emotional toll of chronic or invisible illness




The Healing Journal: Guided Prompts and Inspiration for Life with Illness


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Overcome the emotional toll of chronic or invisible illness with 50 positive affirmations, writing prompts, and soothing illustrations inspired by nature This gorgeously illustrated volume offers guided journaling to a community that stands to benefit immensely: those living with chronic illness. Author and illustrator Emily Sunez—herself a chronic illness patient with multiple diagnoses—speaks from experience through 50 affirmations and over 100 writing prompts that will both console readers and empower them to: cultivate self-compassion and chart their own course to inner healing develop the self-care strategies best suited to their illness advocate for themselves with doctors, family, friends, and coworkers unlock the emotional benefits of mindfulness and positive psychology spot patterns related to their symptoms and manage them better Throughout, Emily’s bold, botanical illustrations underscore her message of hope and resilience. This is the perfect gift for a loved one in need—or yourself.




The Story You Need to Tell


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A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents helps us “to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss.”




Mindfulness and Grief


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Without proper support, navigating the icy waters of grief may feel impossible. The grieving person may feel spiritually bankrupt and often the loss is so painful that the bereaved may lose faith in what they once held dear. Mindfulness meditation can restore hope by offering a compassionate safe haven for healing and self-reflection. While nobody can predict the path of someone else's grief, this book will guide the reader forward through the grieving process with simple mindfulness-based exercises to restore mind, body and spirit. These easy-to-follow meditations will help the reader to cope with the pain of loss, and embark on a healing journey. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of grief, and the guided meditations will calm the mind and increase clarity and focus. Mindfulness and Grief will help readers to begin the process of reconstructing the shattered self that is left in the wake of any major loss.




Begin Within - A Daily Healing Journal


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Begin Within is a daily healing journal for those living life with chronic illness, mental illness or other health-related challenges. This journal allows you to document everything from your vitals to your nutrition, mood, medications, symptoms, challenges, and accomplishments (big and small), with a focus on gratitude. Documenting such information is helpful for healthcare appointments and makes a great reference for recalling specific information written down, as well as noting any progress. Journaling daily is wonderful for one's own mental health and can provide valuable insight and support on your path to wellness.




Journalution


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Studies confirm what avid journalers have always known: writing helps you move forward in your life, heal, and realize your dreams. This inspiring book balances basic instructions in the art of journaling with intimate entries from the author and workshop participants. Exercises and prompts will gently encourage you to open your journal, and with pen or pencil in hand, begin to transform your life today!




Write for Life


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Bringing the facts discovered by research on the healing benefits of writing into the daily perspective of self-discovery, this self-paced book offers a life-long adventure into living healthier and having more fun doing it.




Art Journals & Creative Healing


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Inspiration and guidance for creating journals or scrapbooks for self-healing and inner strength while managing life’s difficult moments. In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling, author Sharon Soneff shows that there is a richer, deeper reward to creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this new volume, Art Journals & Creative Healing, she demonstrates with real excerpts from artistic journals that the process of journaling can be a tool in navigating through some of life’s more challenging seasons, as well as a tool to support personal growth and achievement. Complex human experiences are treated with dignity and sensitivity, and will inspire readers dealing with their own issues. Hope, growth, and healing are at the center of each work. Additionally, the ideas, artistic approaches, and resources provided by the author and numerous contributing artists will help the reader with creative ideas for working through various situations through their reflective and artistic journal keeping. Through a marriage of beautiful imagery, uplifting quotations, and other rich sources, Art Journals & Creative Healing offers its audience a full-bodied artistic experience, along with journaling worksheets and journal prompts to help readers get started with their own journals. Specific topics addressed include using mediums as metaphors, journaling for cathartic expression, gaining wisdom through introspection, finding strength in the midst of suffering, and finding beauty in pain. Art Journals & Creative Healing is a supportive and encouraging text offered as a creative companion for overcoming the challenges of life.




Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook


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The Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook directly applies Louise’s techniques of self-love and positive thinking to a wide range of topics that affect us all on a daily basis, including: health, fears and phobias, sex, self-esteem, money and prosperity, friendship, addictive behavior, work, and intimacy. As Louise says, "These exercises will give you new information about yourself. You will be able to make new choices. If you are willing, then you can definitely create the kind of life you say you want."




Holy Spirit, Help Me Heal


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Holy Spirit, Help Me Heal, is for those seeking freedom from physical disease or emotional dis-ease. Have you been battling an autoimmune disease for years yet found no cure? Do you wonder why disease or dysfunction remains in your life? Have you turned to food or other distractions for escape or comfort and are now chained to those very things? In Holy Spirit, Help Me Heal, Mimi Kroger shares her battle with lupus and subsequent kidney failure and the ultimate triumph and healing she found in her relationship with the Holy Spirit. Through Scripture, song, and story, her book describes the uplifting power of God to heal any dysfunction in life. Mimi wants to show you how the Holy Spirit did it for her and how He can do it for you! In this book, you'll learn to...Recognize the connection between your spirit, soul, and body and how they each affect one another, overcome any dysfunction in your life through Holy Spirit connection and soul healing, establish your identity in Christ and gain the benefits of being a righteous child of God, including the healing of your spirit, soul, and body, strengthen your communication with the Holy Spirit Helper and receive from His compassionate love your worth and value and deny disease the power to steal your strength and energy so you can lead the life you were born to live and impact the world around you.