Rest: A Journal for Lament
Rest: A Journal for Lament
Rest: A Journal for Lament is a thoughtfully designed grief journal that combines the therapeutic benefits of writing with the sacred, spiritual practice of lament, offering you rest as you journal to find healing + hope.
Let This Journal Be Your Companion + Guide
If you’ve endured a heart-breaking event or any type of loss in your life, then you know what it’s like to walk through a dark season—a time marked by sorrow, grief, depression, or even despair.
Rest: A Journal for Lament can help you enter the depths of your experiences during the darkest nights. You can process your pain honestly in a safe place and discover that healing and rest are possible.
Discover hope + healing in hard times through written lament.
If you feel far from God, this journal offers a practical, no-pretense way of drawing near to Him. Through the powerful process of journaling laments, you’ll learn how to release your unrest and hold on to hope.
With the Rest Journal, you’ll learn a simple, yet powerful 4-part journaling structure that helps you express your thoughts and feelings and write a path through the pain to hope and healing for your life.
Discover More
Discover More
Learn more about the Rise Journal's features, benefits, framework, and more including FAQs and bulk discounts at KristinVanderlip.com/rise.
Exterior Features
Exterior Features
Cover: Hardcover wrapped in soft, quality linen, worthy of holding your sacred words
Cover Color: "Dawn," warm, peach that represents the new morning light of a sunrise just peeking over the horizon and dispelling the darkness. This color evokes feelings of compassion and courage.
Binding: Swiss flat-lay binding so that your journal pages stay open, offering you a comfortable writing experience anywhere, anytime
Additional Features:
Gold foiling
Gold ribbon for easily finding your place
Interior Features
Interior Features
205 crisp white interior pages (100 gsm)
8 weeks worth (or 56) journal entries
Each journal entry offers a clear 4-part structure with lightly lined space for expressing your thoughts
Includes check-in pages with reflective prompts
The end of the journal contains remembrance pages featuring the following sections: significant dates, a comfort + care plan, memories, quotes + scriptures, and revelations.
A portion of blank, lined pages for personal space + free writing can be found at the end of the journal
Size
Size
At 5.5" x 8.5" this journal fits nicely in your purse, bag, nightstand drawer, or bookshelf
205 pages in length
Shipping + Returns
Shipping + Returns
SHIPPING
Journals will begin shipping as soon as they arrive in stock. Orders are processed within 1-2 business days. Shipping rates are determined at checkout.
RETURNS
Your satisfaction is important to me, which is why I take extra care to create and curate all the items you find in my shop. If an item arrives damaged, please CLICK HERE to send me a note within 5 days of receiving your order so I can help take care of the issue. Unopened, unused journals can be returned within 30 days of purchase; the cost of the journal will be refunded to you (but you will be charged the cost of shipping).
Pre-Order Gifts
Pre-Order Gifts
ENJOY EXCLUSIVE GIFTS WHEN YOUR PRE-ORDER:
- Art Print: a physical postcard print of my original oil pastel painting "Rise No. 1"
- Poetry Print: a physical postcard print of the original poem "Birdsong" by Katie Drobina
- An adorable plum Pen & Mend circle sticker
- A Guided Audio Journey Through the Rise Journal (digital listening experience to use with your journal)
- An entry to win a free one year membership to the Pen & Mend Collective
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