It’s important to find creative outlets that can move and muster movement within your grieving process.
This will challenge your brain to think of other things other than the actual moments of loss.
There are so many benefits to working through different types of workshops. Creativity unlocks the opposite side of your brain and allows a door for healing.
This workshop that we held within our child loss support group was with air, dry clay. It was super helpful because the attendants were asked to write down all of the emotions or memories or memories that they didn’t get to make with their child or children.
It was important to capture all of it by coloring the plain piece of paper because we would be returning to this later.
Afterwards, we started with our air dry clay. Molding it and working with it just like we work with our grief. We held it in our hands. We squeezed it tight. We rolled it out. We maneuvered it within the palm of our hands.
Carefully we started, rolling out our clay into coils.
The coils were then assembled into a bowl.
This bowl would become our grief bowl that we would pour all of our grief into. It was a very slow process, taking note of every individual detail. We didn’t rush it just like we don’t rush our grief.
It was an amazing time of reflection to be able to look back on the lives of our children, and to be thankful. So truly grateful for them, and the impact that they have made on our own lives.
After creating the bowl, we then returned to the picture and cut out little individual slices on the pieces of paper and then held each of them individually and rolled them up.
They were then put into the grief bowl.
In the coming days when we are struggling, we can pull from this bowl to remind ourselves the good things that have come out of grief.
It was a beautiful workshop
Please enjoy some pictures!
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