Melanie Davis
Founder of Storybooks for Healing

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Storybooks for Healing (S4H) is a facilitated guide and workbook program which can effectively assist individuals in overcoming grief and loss through focused writing. At the end of the personal writing program, participants are able to publish a beautiful hardbound storybook and/or share their story in the on-line virtual library where the author continues to find healing and meaning in their loss as their story becomes a source of help and inspiration to others who are going through their own tragedy.

The S4H program is based on two important principles: the more purpose one finds in tragedy...[more]

Storybooks for Healing (S4H) is a facilitated guide and workbook program which can effectively assist individuals in overcoming grief and loss through focused writing. At the end of the personal writing program, participants are able to publish a beautiful hardbound storybook and/or share their story in the on-line virtual library where the author continues to find healing and meaning in their loss as their story becomes a source of help and inspiration to others who are going through their own tragedy.

The S4H program is based on two important principles: the more purpose one finds in tragedy, the less painful it becomes; and, there is powerful healing found in service to others. S4H provides the vehicle for celebrating the life of a loved one or the life lived before the tragedy, confronting the pain of loss, finding purpose in tragedy and looking ahead with hope for a life still worth living. Through this process many will find meaning in their loss and be given the opportunity to serve others by sharing their story.

The Storybooks for Healing program is based on my own experience creating a storybook about my daughter who died of SIDS. I discovered that writing and sharing the story about her and what I learned through this difficulty brought powerful and complete healing and I felt a great desire to create a program which provides this opportunity to everyone. [less]