Colors of Loss and HealingĪuthor Deborah S. It also includes a three-month grief work journal, helping people who are bereaved to channel and process their thoughts. This colouring book for grown ups who are grieving by JC Grace, has 14 pages focused on different phases of grief. Her coloring book for bereaved children is a story of faith, hope, and love, with a spiritual take she hopes may potentially bring them to a place of peace and comfort. As adults, she says, it’s difficult enough to deal with grief and loss. Penny Stemley created this coloring book for grieving children. She says she was inspired to put together the coloring book for other grown ups who are grieving, to help them cope with their grief and express feelings loss and love for their father. This is the first bereavement coloring book by artist Nami Nakamura, who drew as a form of grief therapy after her dad's death.

The Lonely Treeīased on a picture book about grief for children by author and illustrator Nicholas Halliday, this coloring book for bereaved children tells the story of an evergreen tree mourning the death of an old oak.

They may help you or someone you love, as you cope with grief after the death of someone significant in your life. Here are 10 coloring books for the bereaved that have been created for both adults and children. “The time and focus that adult coloring takes,” says counselorĭr Nikki Martinez, “helps the individual remove the focus from the negative issues and habits, and focus them in a safe and productive way.” Adults, too, can benefit from creative activities as a form of alternative grief therapy, to help identify, explore and work through their feelings. Coloring is regarded as a meditative pursuit that is great for emotional wellbeing.Ĭrossroads Hospice says arts and crafts activities can help children to communicate feelings that they cannot convey in words and express themselves in a way that’s free from judgement. Coloring, drawing and painting can help people channel and process many of the complicated emotions they face when someone they love dies.Ĭoloring may have once been regarded as an activity just for kids, but in recent years, a wealth of coloring books for grown ups have been published.

The Lonely Tree by Nicholas Halliday