"An excellent guidebook to help young people through the grief of bereavement"
Find Strength, Stay Hopeful and Get to Grips With Grief
Julia Stokes has been supporting children and young people experiencing the grief of bereavement for many years and uses all that she’s has learned in this wise, accessible and practical book. She’s honest about how difficult it is to get to grips with grief but reassuringly clear too that her readers will be okay one day, encouraging them to look forward. Her book provides advice on how to develop ‘grief muscles’ to make coping easier, and she includes exercises that will provide real support, alongsid real-life examples that will make readers understand they’re not alone. Her style is gentle yet firm and focussed, the tone that of a caring friend who knows exactly what to say and do. A book that should prove invaluable to young people who have lost someone they loved.
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This book makes you feel warmer, and less alone, when you hear about how other people have felt the same things as you.
When my grandfather died, I felt confused, upset and as if no-one else had ever had the same feelings as me. But then I read ‘You will be okay’, and I saw how many people had dealt with worse loss, and how many people had come face-to-face with loss on a similar scale to me. The author really explains how to make and then use a ‘grief mindset’. I love the way she describes your ‘land of loss’ as sad and mossy, and then your own unique ‘land of rebuilding’. And how you can swing between the lands to get used to them, grow alongside them and rebuild the hole in your life.... Read Full Review
This book helps you to deal with grief. It has lots of stories about children who have lost someone important in their lives and gives you strategies to work through how you are feeling.
This book tells you how to deal with grief. It has suggestions such as making a Memory Box where you can put in photos, mementos of the person who died and a notebook that you fill in with information about them. You can also create a digital part to the box with photos and videos which remind you of them.
In the book there are stories about children who have experienced grief. I liked these accounts because if you are grieving and you read these stories, you would feel comforted knowing that others have felt how you feel. My favourite story is about Liam. His PE teacher saw he was not doing well in school and realised something was wrong. When Liam said he was fine, what he meant was he felt fed up, isolated, nervous, and exhausted.... Read Full Review
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