Books
Books by Katrina Journeaux
The Intermission Grief Collection was created for bereaved parents who want to remember their child in all the beautiful detail that made them who they were, while also finding a gentle way to navigate the life that exists between The Before and The After.
It begins with MARYA: A Bereaved Mother's Personal Invitation into Her Private Intermission, Katrina Journeaux's honest and deeply personal account of losing her 19-year-old daughter, Marya. Raw, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, MARYA invites you into one mother's private grief journey—a place where grief, love, guilt, hope, laughter, and enduring connection are all allowed to coexist. This isn't a book about moving on or leaving your child behind. It's about discovering what it can mean to keep loving beyond death.
A Gentle Guide Through Your Intermission turns the focus from Katrina's story to yours. After realizing that some of her most treasured memories of Marya—the ordinary conversations, silly habits, and tiny details—were beginning to fade, Katrina created the book she had desperately searched for and couldn't find. Inside are 365 prompts written specifically for bereaved parents, designed to spark one memory and then another, helping you preserve not only life's milestones, but the seemingly ordinary moments that become priceless after loss. Additional prompts gently explore your grief, who you were before, who you are becoming, and the strange space in between. The book also includes 100+ additional prompts for stepparents, adoptive parents, and parents of children with complex medical needs.
The five coordinating My Child: Intermission Grief Companion Journals, Volumes I–V, were created especially to accompany A Gentle Guide Through Your Intermission. They give all of those memories somewhere to live. Follow the prompts in order or don't. Skip questions, change them, return to them years later, or allow one memory to lead you somewhere completely unexpected. Fill the pages with stories, letters, photographs, drawings, memories, or anything else you never want time to take away.
Together, the collection becomes more than a memoir, a prompt book, and five journals. It becomes an invitation to remember, write, preserve, and continue loving—and, over time, to create a deeply personal keepsake that can be passed down through generations so others can know your child as you knew them.
Because some memories are simply too precious to trust to time.
And every child deserves to be remembered in every beautiful detail.
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