Mental Health Professional Corrona Boston Endorses Grief Journal "I Miss You" by Kinyatta E. Gray
In August 2021, Kinyatta E. Gray released five guided journals and diaries for women and teens that address topics ranging from self-love, dating, travel, and grief and loss.
I Miss You: Daily Writing Prompts for Reflection, Remembrance, and Spirit Renewal is the first guided journal released by Gray to address grief and loss.
According to Rochester Edu, journaling helps control your symptoms and improve your mood by:
helping you prioritize problems, fears, and concerns, and
tracking any symptoms day-to-day so that you can recognize triggers and learn ways to control them better
providing an opportunity for positive self-talk and identifying negative thoughts and behaviors.
With this in mind, five-time author Gray wanted to be part of the solution and embarked on a mission to design, write and publish guided journals and diaries.
Further, Gray understood the benefits of journaling as she has filled many pages over many years (and continues to do so) to release, manage, and monitor her emotions.
Gray sought out the support of mental health providers and encouraged them to review her grief journal, I Miss You and consider offering it as a tool and resource to their clients.
Here's what mental health professional Corrona Boston had to say about Gray's new grief journal: "As a Psychotherapist/Art Therapist, I am always using creative interventions to help my clients toward their mental health journey. I work with grieving clients on a daily basis who struggle with finding the right words to articulate the pain, emptiness, and isolation that emerges after someone they love passes. The grief journal entitled "I Miss You" by Kinyatta E. Gray is an essential approach for addressing bereavement and providing a reflective space for full expression to heal while grieving. I encourage my clients to allocate time to tend to their emotional needs to establish a healthy relationship with their pain. The goal being to effectively cope and listen to what their feelings are telling them instead of repressing them or self-medicating. This journal provides a daily regimen for ensuring support systems, healthy grieving strategies and rituals that commemorate loved ones are practiced to help redefine life without the physical form of the person, but by still remembering and honoring their presence, lessons and memories."
Corrona Boston, LPC, ATR, DBT-C
Gray is confident that you will benefit from incorporating journaling into your mental health self-care routine for these reasons and many more. Writing down daily life experiences helps identify thoughts, feelings and emotions and helps you to monitor your progress towards healing.
I Miss You is available now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
For more information, visit https://www.kinyattagray.com/.
