Julia M. Sorensen's profile

Julia Sorensen, MA, RPC, CCBT is the author of "Overcoming Loss Stories and Activities for Children who have Experienced Grief" publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
We all know of a child that has experienced the hurt of divorce, bereavement, or relationship endings. Children dont always get to choose how they will spend their futures and with today's hectic lifestyles, children move, are transferred, start new schools, experience parental breakdown and breakup, grandparent loss, or grief through natural disasters.
Helping children to express their deep feelings and move beyond to healing is a challenge for us all as young children dont typically understand feelings beyond "happy", "sad", "mad", "bad". Through building their emotional literacy and recognition of feeling words, children can develop their own vocabulary and express this in play or activities.
This unique book is both a hands on activity book and story book for young children 4 - 8 years who have experienced the pain of loss through divorce, bereavement, and relationship closures. It is a sensitive and gentle book that contains fully photocopiable exercises and activities about dealing with deep emotions and healing ways to express them through play and artwork. Suitable for parents, educators, therapists, counsellors, community groups,faith groups and grandparents.
This book was developed out of the authors passion for finding ways to reach and help children who had experienced loss and grief at a young age. The author developed expressive activities that were appropriate to age/stage of young children's development and their comprehension of emotions so that they could better understand their feelings surrounding
grief or loss. When children can be helped to express their sorrow and anger, they can move beyond the hurt feelings to heal.