Between Grief and Joy

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Between Grief & Joy is a creative health and wellness newsletter featuring prose, poetry, book recs and reflections inspired by how we live and love in the spaces between grief and joy & how community, faith and self compassion can help us heal.

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About Yolande Clark-Jackson

I'm a writer, mom of two adults and a child loss survivor who has been navigating between grief and joy since losing my daughter Divine in 2002. I'm also a former classroom teacher who still loves to share what I'm reading and learning about life.

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