The focus of my Grief Talk will be how the arts and creativity can help to navigate the grief journey by providing an outlet for grief and a mode of self-expression that may be more accessible during periods of deep grief. The process of creating art allows a person to put their emotion into creating something that, if nothing else, is a way of releasing that emotion from within. The intense feelings of grief are often too much to bear without something to channel them through. By working through art, those feelings have a medium in which to pass through which can perhaps soften the edges. I will share a little about my experience with grief and what led me to write, “Grief is like a tidal wave...” I will describe my process in writing and illustrating the book and how doing those things on their own became a part…