From the beginning of this sensitive journal and spiced throughout are lovely black and white drawings. Even if a mama is too grief-stricken to read or write words at the beginning of her grief journey, she can still take in the insightful drawings. Phyllis Klaus provides a gently loving foreword. The journal moves parents along through the healing process with poems, tender words and places for the reader to write her own affirmations and to tell her story. This is an interactive journal and remembrance of the baby with many places to tell the baby's story.
This book adds just what is needed to the healing realm of birth loss. Our resources in this area are so much richer because Mary Burgess took the time (to) help us through this difficult area of life and death.
Jennifer Rokeby-Mayeux of International Doula wrote:
I had the pleasure of reading Mary Burgess's book Mending Invisible Wings; a Healing Journal for MOthers. The spiral bound journal style book is full of affirmations, activities and exercises to assist mothers as they heal from the loss of a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.
The journal is divided into four parts, each with many exercises that lead the mother through a variety of activities that engage all the senses. Each exercise includes an action, affirmation and self-nurtance activity. This journal boasts plenty of space dedicated to journaling, writing and drawing, so everything can be contained in one private, personal space.
This book dcould be just the right gift to give to a mother who is dealing with the death of a child. The journal will allow the mother to work through her pain and grief at her own pace, guiding her through this difficult process.
Mending Invisible Wings - Healing from the Loss of Your Baby
Author Mary Burgess
with Shiloh Sophia McCloud - Forward by Phyllis Klaus
A Healing Journal for Mothers Following the loss of her baby through late-term miscarraige, stillbirth, or neonatal death.
In Mending Invisible Wings, you are invited to
Honor the light of your Spirit Child,
Acknowledge your experience,
Explore the realm of Compassion & Forgiveness,
Soothe your aching arms & tender wounds
As you write, draw, paint & color your own tapestry of loss
8.5X 11 spiral bound - thick paper, 175 pages, $29.50
Over 20 Illustrations By Shiloh Sophia McCloud
Includes 15 Creative Expression journal practices and 15 Healing Ceremonies, plenty of blank pages, poetry and stories.
