How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief

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A journal for meeting grief with honesty and kindness-honoring loss, rather than packing it away With her breakout book It's OK That You're Not OK, Megan Devine struck a chord with thousands of readers through her honest, validating approach to grief. In her same direct, no-platitudes style, she now offers How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed-a journal filled with unique, creative ways to open a dialogue with grief itself. "Being allowed to tell the truth about your grief is an incredibly powerful act," she says, "This journal enables you to tell your whole story, without the need to tack on a happy ending where there isn't one." Grief is a natural response to death and loss-it's not a problem to be fixed. This workbook contains no cliches, timetables, or checklists of stages to get through; it won't help you "move on" or put your loss behind you. Instead, you'll find encouragement, self-care exercises, daily tools, tear-and-share resources to help you educate friends and allies, and prompts to help you honor your pain and heartbreak. "Your grief has an intelligence of its own," Devine writes. "Let it tell you what it knows." With How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed, this pioneering author brings you an essential resource to help you enter a conversation with your grief, find your own truth, and live into the life you didn't ask for-but is here nonetheless. Review: Megan is so tender. - Am lucky to have this book. She has defeated death.period. Review: OUTSTANDING. No wonder Hospice Grief counselors recommend Megan Devine! - UPDATE: If you want a journal that keeps it real and has you do something different from the norm, this is it. It doesn’t make you “look on the bright side.” In fact, one task is to write NO over and over to everything you want to say no to, especially “ isn’t it time you started to move on?” It also builds in needed breaks. Like “that was hard. Take a break and color this picture.” Or, “ when you’re done, take a rest, eat something, etc.” I’ll post a picture of that page only so you can get a sense of how cool and helpful—and unique—this journaling workbook is. It’s phenomenal. Another grief journal, this was a suggestion recommended by the grief counselor I was assigned by Hospice, who helped me take care of my dad and his last week of life. She had good things to say about Megan Devine, and I can see why. At this point, I’ve just started journaling in this book, and in another one that goes with a book by Dr. Wolfelt, which was also a Hospice recommendation, but it works to have two different journals because they are very different types. This one is more of a thoughtful journal that even has word searches for brain breaks, suggestions of things you can do with friends, ideas for when you’re struggling, etc. The other journal by the doctor is a companion to his book in particular. I think they both have their merits, but this is the one that I am enjoying starting, if one can enjoy starting anything having to do with grief. It sucks and it’s horrible, but if a journal can help me make my way through it, I’m all in. This one seems really good and will keep me interested long enough to learn some things to help myself manage this horrible grieving process. I will update this when I’m finished with it. So far, so good.