Peek Inside: Creative Healing Expression
You may wonder, “What is a Creative Healing Expression?” Well, a Creative Healing Expression is a gently guided process that includes art/creation/drawing/journaling etc. as a bridge towards healing from babyloss wounds. Here is an example. It is entitled, Mementos, and it is Creative Healing Expression Nine.
Creative Healing Expression Nine: Mementos
After your baby arrived earth-side, did you receive or have any mementos made of him? Did you get a picture of him? A plaster handprint? An ink print of his little foot? Or perhaps a lock of hair?
What mementos of your child do you have?
Paste in a picture of your baby on this page, or a picture of your mementos. You may wish to do a crayon-rubbing of his plaster hand cast. You might also wish to Xerox his handprint and paste it in here, atop a picture of your own hand.
If you do not have anything like this, do you have something else? Such as an ultrasound image, or a picture of you, heavy with child? Maybe you can write down the song lyrics you sang to him while you were pregnant, or even at his ceremony/graveside. Or perhaps you could add a photo of the flowers that blossom each year around the time of his birth, or tape a pressed flower onto these pages…
Use the next pages to add mementos and images…
Now,
each year,
when the lilacs blossom,
I shall think of you,
dear child.
~Mary Burgess
Affirmation: I will always have these special mementos and the precious memories of my child.
Self-Nurturance: Spend time tending your body, paint your toenails, rub lotion on your body, file your nails, put face cream on, pin flowers into your hair.
Action: Pick or buy for yourself today a single flower, the most beautiful flower you can. Or buy flowers to plant.
Excerpt from: Mending Invisible Wings, p. 62. ©2009
Creative Healing Expression Nine: Mementos
After your baby arrived earth-side, did you receive or have any mementos made of him? Did you get a picture of him? A plaster handprint? An ink print of his little foot? Or perhaps a lock of hair?
What mementos of your child do you have?
Paste in a picture of your baby on this page, or a picture of your mementos. You may wish to do a crayon-rubbing of his plaster hand cast. You might also wish to Xerox his handprint and paste it in here, atop a picture of your own hand.
If you do not have anything like this, do you have something else? Such as an ultrasound image, or a picture of you, heavy with child? Maybe you can write down the song lyrics you sang to him while you were pregnant, or even at his ceremony/graveside. Or perhaps you could add a photo of the flowers that blossom each year around the time of his birth, or tape a pressed flower onto these pages…
Use the next pages to add mementos and images…
Now,
each year,
when the lilacs blossom,
I shall think of you,
dear child.
~Mary Burgess
Affirmation: I will always have these special mementos and the precious memories of my child.
Self-Nurturance: Spend time tending your body, paint your toenails, rub lotion on your body, file your nails, put face cream on, pin flowers into your hair.
Action: Pick or buy for yourself today a single flower, the most beautiful flower you can. Or buy flowers to plant.
Excerpt from: Mending Invisible Wings, p. 62. ©2009