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Pages of Hope
Hi there, I'm Lisa and I created "A place in my heart" Grief Journal to help others to gradually navigate their individual grief. I am passionate about writing for wellbeing during grief and believe that where there is nothing in this world that can make something better, writing can at the least help to bring small moments of peace, comfort and clarity.
Pages of Hope
For Pages of Hope, I am giving a 15% discount of my gently guided grief journals and personalised notebooks to Hospices and Bereavement Charities.
"Pages of Hope’s aim is to offer comforting writing resources to organisations to then gift to families experiencing bereavement, as an ongoing tool to help cope with grief.”
If you have a charitable fund to provide beneficial resources for patients and bereaved families, I would love for you to consider these grief journals and notebooks.
What the grief journals contain
Inside the guided grief journal, you will find:
Find my journal listing and read reviews
What resources can you offer?
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Gently guided grief journal
My gently guided grief journals are self-led, with no timed excercises or rules. Instead, the journal offers prompts to pick from that will likely resonate differently each day. As grief has no time limit or timeline, neither do my journals, which is what makes them unique.
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Until we meet again (blank lined) notebooks
I have created a brand new design for my personalised notebooks for those with life limiting illnesses to write precious words to their loved ones. They are personalised with. a name, are available in 8 different colours and come with a matching pen.
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Inside cover poem
My personalised notebooks also include a poem printed in silver or gold foil on the inside cover. The poem shown is my own that I am always willing to share; but it can also be changed to be something personal to a family (so long as it's of a similar length).
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Writing prompts
We can work together to create an A5 flyer (that includes your logo) to provide to patients alongside the notebooks with writing suggestions to help with the overwhelm that can come from starting with a blank page.
A brief snapshot about me
The journals don't mention my story, but I understand you'll want to find out a little more about me and why I came to create these journals to help those who are grieving.
Why I feel so passionately about these journals
Writing has helped me so much over the years with my grief. I would love for others who are struggling to be able to untangle, release, find comfort or even just a moment's peace in their grief. Writing can help to solidify the realisations that hit us whilst grieving and to make conscious decisions to reach for something helpful on the worst days, rather than subconsciously reaching for things that end up bringing us more pain.
Here's a snapshot timeline about me to scroll across and the relevant experiences that have culminated to create the journals.
We hear the devastating words "I'm so sorry, there's no heartbeat" for our firstborn baby. Our worlds change forever and we begin our lifelong journey of grief.
I set up a website blogging, and creating keepsake gifts for bereaved parents who have also lost a baby. At the time, no UK website dedicated to baby loss gifts exists.
I begin a local peer to peer support group for bereaved parents. Myself and others work together, fundraise and provide resources to hospitals for bereaved parents.
Drawing on my previously unknown creative streak, I start a Graphic Design course to make a complete change in my career (previously a Family Mediator).
I work for a pregnancy safety charity with a focus on working with previously bereaved parents, midwives and expectant parents to help save future babies' lives.
At the end of 2019, I burn out. I step away from all things grief related for a while, as the anniversary this year hits me harder than ever and I realise I'm not coping well.
I reflect on my burnout, my grief and set to re-building my life in a way that helps me to carry and honour my grief in a much healthier way and having gratitude for all I have.
I set up my business with a focus on writing for self-care. It naturally falls towards helping with grief. I reflect on my grief journey and design my first guided journal for grief.
Bereavement midwife Kelly Harris contacts me about my grief journals. With Kelly's support and encouragement, I design a baby memorial version of my grief journal too.
The Pages of Hope Project is launched and together, we work towards making the grief journals available for anyone who might find comfort in writing for grief.
Get in touch
Please complete the form below to find out more. I would love to hear from you.
FAQ's
Is The Self-care Journal co. a non profit organisation?
No, but it is a small business with a strong sense of purpose.
I'm a one woman band (registered as a sole trader) who has chosen to combine my professional skills and personal experiences to set up my business to inspire/help others as my full time job.
The Pages of Hope project is in memory of our beautiful baby.
I'm looking on behalf of a charity. Can you donate the journals?
How much I'd like to say yes here! But unfortunately, it's not something we could manage as a (very) small business.
The quality and care put into creating the guided journals means they have involved quite an investment. Having looked into what we can manage donation wise, we have picked the hospital that cared for us when we lost our little girl to donate the journals to, and we would like to inspire others to do the same for organisations that have helped them where appropriate.
What is super important is that we're able to cover the cost of the journals and be able to keep going with them in the future which is the basis for the cost.