Still My Family

**When a parent goes to prison, kids get left out of the conversation — this guided journal finally gives them one.** - **Written directly for kids ages 7–12** — not a scaled-down adult workbook, but content built at a child's reading level, with permission to draw instead of write and skip anything that feels like too much - **A five-part guided journey** — from making sense of what's happening, through naming mixed-up feelings, staying connected to their person, building a support team, to remembering who they are beyond this one hard thing - **Reflection prompts, affirmations, and tracking pages on every page spread** — including a letter-writing space, a visit-prep spread, a "safe people" map, a calm-down toolbox, and a weekly mood log - **Trauma-informed and shame-free from page one** — reinforces again and again that none of this is the child's fault, and gives language for feelings most kids are never given permission to say out loud Having a parent or caregiver incarcerated is one of the most common — and most invisible — hard things a kid can go through. There's no casserole, no sympathy card, no "I'm sorry for your loss." Just a confusing, lonely gap that most children are left to fill in on their own, often while being told not to talk about it at all. *Still My Family* was written to close that gap. It doesn't promise a certain outcome or rush a child toward feeling okay — it gives them a private place to work through what's actually true for them, at their own pace, with a trusted adult nearby if they want one. Written by the author of guided journals for people navigating incarceration and reentry across the whole family, this is the piece written for the person too often left out of that conversation entirely: the kid.

Year

2026

Publisher

Self-Published

Editions

1

ISBN

9798171964030

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