A creative card deck to foster resilience and growth after loss, trauma, or life transitions. With prompts for reflection and action, they support posttraumatic growth and to process emotions, integrate change, and build a meaningful future. Suitable for self-help and professional use by therapists, coaches, and counselors.

“Claudia Coenen's Karuna Cards beckon like tiny portals to a new world. Poignant and inviting, each prompts the reader to open to gentle reflection on life and loss, on patterns and possibilities. Like a compassionate and inquisitive friend, they beckon readers to discover new meanings in a changed world, and in a changing self.”

~ Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD

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The quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit the spaces left behind by those we love. Easy-to-use exercises and activities invite readers to explore the changeable nature of grief through the ebb and flow of the seasons.

Diverse creative practitioners offer their techniques along with poems from Dr. Robert Neimeyer. Reflections from Claudia Coenen help you delve into the emotional context of each chapter. This heart-centred, compassionate approach infuses bereavement therapy with much-needed warmth through techniques that guide users towards practical, healthy ways of processing their loss.

Bringing together voices and art from across the spectrum of creative grief therapy, Coenen provides an accessible, compassionate guide to supporting those coping with bereavement throughout their journey.

The Creative Toolkit

Understanding loss and its effects is integral to effective counseling and support in the treatment of grief. This book is both a guide to the key theories of bereavement, and a practical workbook that can be used with clients to help them understand and work through their grief in a positive, transformative way.

Offering a straightforward guide to bereavement models and therapeutic approaches, with photocopiable exercises and worksheets, The Creative Toolkit for Working with Grief and Bereavement is a valuable resource for information on grief and how to help grieving clients, and an invitation to explore creative possibilities for healing.


Shattered By Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again

This is a practical guide to help readers work through their grief via expressive therapies and activities, based on the techniques Claudia Coenen honed as a professional counselor after the unexpected loss of her husband.

This book provides clear methods to process grief, experience its pain and learn how to live fully again. Readers are encouraged to completely engage with their grief through storytelling, self-care and ritual, and honest reflection. The book guides you through the healing process while allowing for the freedom to explore pain in a way that best fits their unique situation. Eschewing the idea of a 'quick-fix' to grief, it suggests ways in which tragedy and loss can be a springboard for rejuvenation and transformation.

Karuna Cards

The Karuna Cards are a set of 52 prompt cards that offer creative ideas and activities for grief and other difficult life transitions. The Karuna Cards encourage journaling, storytelling, collage and other ways to express grief and cope with troubling circumstances.

The cards can help you explore your inner world, release emotions and consider the gifts within relationships. The cards help you craft new personal stories, that shape the way you view your life. They also include ways to decompress, connect with nature and simple meditations to quell anxiety.