January therapeutic event: Vision Boards 2024

January 2024 will be the SIXTH annual Let Grace In Vision Boarding event.  Each year, we have asked ourselves... with all that we have lost, what are we still hoping for? No matter how heartbroken we feel, we can recognize our hope for something:  pockets of peace, more connected relationship with our partner, to be the best parent to our living children, or to just to be able to feel the love of our deceased child again.

Thoughts become things.

Each year I'm amazed when i reflect at my vision board & see how certain things came to fruition. We invite you and interested siblings to join us & be led by our holistic nurse, Joyce Wong, in a short meditation and instruction on how to create your personal vision board.  After instriuction, we will provide a  safe, quiet place among other bereaved parents and siblings to emerse in the creative process.

Vison Boards are a therapeutic art form that can help us get unstuck in our greif. 

One art therapist www.thirstyforart.com shares:

 You Can Visualize Your Life 

Visualizing is a powerful tool we can use, we all have the ability to visualize or create images in our minds. This mental image influences our feelings, our thoughts, our actions. And our actions create results in our life.

Our brains cannot distinguish between what's actually happening in our lives versus what's happening in our minds. When we imagine a calm, peaceful place in our minds, our body thinks we are actually in a calm, peaceful place, even if in reality we're surrounded by chaos.

 You Can Gain Clarity 

Vision boards also help you gain clarity when you're stuck. A lot of the times when we're stuck, it's because we don't know what our big goals are and why we're going towards it.

So vision boards give you more motivation & inspiration because it gives us a clear picture of what it is we're going toward.

 You Can Feel Creative And Feel Positive 

Vision boards invite you into your creative side.  This exercise mproves mood and our sense of positivity because it focuses on things in life that light us up, give us energy & spark.

I find that vision boards tend to manifest very physically - so I also want to encourage you to focus on how you want to FEEL and the experiences you want to have.

Possessing physical things can give us a good feeling. But these feelings are often short-lived.

On the other hand, experiences can have a lasting impact on us, and the good feelings we get from them are quite profound because we can tap into those feelings again in the future.