JUDY FOY

Based on recognized practices to help the grieving, this book is a faith-based guided journal. Aimed at bringing solace to the reader, it helps them work, at their own pace, through aspects that may complicate the grieving process. Readings and motivational prompts help them to recognize and understand some of factors that can make grief especially difficult. The goal of the journal is to help the reader remember the loved one who passed with more love than pain. Mini-essays based on the author's own experiences with grief and loss, relevant scripture, inspirational spiritual quotes, and reflection prompts help to guide the reader to a place where they can integrate the loss into their spiritual lives.

The brain in grief is the mind in trauma. Based on recognized practices for healing trauma, neuroscientist Judy Foy brings practical tools for healing trauma and working through grief in bite-sized "brain hacks" to use in your daily lives. Brain hacks are strategies to use what we know about how the brain works to interrupt persistent, unwanted thoughts, to find joy in life again, and to integrate the loss in your life. Grief doesn't diminish us. It increases our capacity to live life to the fullest. Judy brings her own experiences with devastating grief and loss to this practical book that will help those who want to move forward after a loss that feels unbearable. 

When someone we love dies, the loss can feel overwhelming and hard to make sense of. Talking about it with children can be especially difficult when we don't understand what has happened, ourselves. Buttons and the Butterfly is an inspirational story for all ages that can help begin that conversation. Illustrated with photographs to suggest connections with the natural world, the book offers consolation in the familiar story of the butterfly’s life cycle. Through the simple story of a puppy, Buttons, who has lost a caterpillar that she loves, gentle words and images convey God, transformation, the soul, and heaven.

Buttons the Labradoodle's Activity Book is a standalone book related to Buttons and the Butterfly, a picture book for all ages when someone you love has died. The activity book contains coloring pages and prompts for the child to draw or write their reactions and feelings in response to gentle questions that relate to the book. Both books are intended to help the bereaved express their own feelings within the familiar story of a caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly and a puppy's sadness over losing the caterpillar. Buttons and the Butterfly and the Buttons the Labradoodle's Activity Book guide readers of all ages through loss and grief, reminding them that change is not an end but a beginning of something new and that God's love endures.

 

When someone we love dies, the loss can feel overwhelming and hard to make sense of. Talking about it with children can be especially difficult when we don't understand what has happened, ourselves. Buttons and the Butterfly is an inspirational story for all ages that can help begin that conversation. Illustrated with photographs to suggest connections with the natural world, the book offers consolation in the familiar story of the butterfly’s life cycle. Through the simple story of a puppy, Buttons, who has lost a caterpillar that she loves, gentle words and images convey God, transformation, the soul, and heaven.