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You Will Be Okay: Find Strength, Stay Hopeful and Get to Grips With Grief Paperback – February 13, 2024

by Julie Stokes (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
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"Grief is a tricky subject to explain to kids, but this book is a wonderful go-to expert toolkit!" Dr Ranj Singh

The death of a parent, sibling or friend is one of the most traumatic experiences for a child or young person and it can be hard to know how to talk to them about it. In this honest, comforting and strength-building guide Julie Stokes, a clinical psychologist and founder of childhood bereavement charity Winston's Wish, provides readers with the tools they need to navigate this tough and turbulent time.

Readers will discover the stories of other people who have been through grief themselves. They will learn how to flex their 'grief muscles' in order to develop confidence, trust, grit, a resilient mindset and flexible feelings ­- the ability to notice, accept and talk about emotions when they choose to. And packed with practical exercises, such as creating memory boxes and managing different kinds of memories using 'memory stones', this guide will give readers helpful ways to manage their grief so they can begin to move forward with life.

Because there is no right or wrong way to grieve, you just need to find your own way.

"The book I wish someone had read with me when I was young"Kristin Scott Thomas

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    9 - 11 years
  2. Print length
    224 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    4 - 6
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
  6. Publisher
    Wren & Rook
  7. Publication date
    February 13, 2024
  8. ISBN-10
    1526363895
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1526363893
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"The book I wish someone had read with me when I was young." - Kristin Scott Thomas

"Grief is a tricky subject to explain to kids, but this book is a wonderful go-to expert toolkit!"

―Dr Ranj Singh, Instagram

"Julie has had a wealth of experience working with children who have been through the most challenging of times. She can guide children through the most tender stages of grief and help them build resilience and move forward with their lives."

―Emily Eavis

"I wish this book had been around when I was younger, but reading it now has still been so helpful! It really breaks grief down and normalises all of the feelings, making it much more manageable. I can see the visuals and the activities being very useful for teachers in the classroom. Accessible and inclusive for all ages."

―Lydia, primary school teacher, whose mother died when she was 11

About the Author

Julie Stokes, founder of Winston's Wish was born in 1961 and educated at St. Michael's Convent Grammar School in London. Julie received a 1st class honours degree in Psychology and in 1987 went on to receive a Masters in Clinical Psychology.

Julie started her career with the NHS in 1984 and was instrumental in establishing one of the first hospital-based teams focusing on palliative care. Her desire to involve children before and after a parent's death and to support parents led her to apply to the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. In 1992 she was awarded a Fellowship and travelled to America and Canada to better understand the services provided in these countries for bereaved children. Inspired by what she had experienced, Julie founded Winston's Wish in September of that year. After just 3 years the grief support programme was well established and Julie won the BT/Childline award 'for providing outstanding services to children'

Julie continues to lecture both nationally and internationally, is an established author and has contributed to 11 documentaries including the ground breaking Mummy Diaries series in 2007.


In December 2006, Julie received an OBE for services to children and families. She is the former Vice Chair of The Childhood Bereavement Network. She now works as an Executive Coach.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wren & Rook (February 13, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526363895
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526363893
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 11 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 - 6
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 91 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Grief follows you everywhere even on a beach
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Grief follows you everywhere even on a beach
This book was easily read during an afternoon on holiday. A tough , positive and hopeful read . I now feel more confident to start a difficult conversation with someone who says they are “FINE” but I know deep down it’s the authors version of fine ( fed up , insecure , nervous and exhausted ).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grief follows you everywhere even on a beach
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021
This book was easily read during an afternoon on holiday. A tough , positive and hopeful read . I now feel more confident to start a difficult conversation with someone who says they are “FINE” but I know deep down it’s the authors version of fine ( fed up , insecure , nervous and exhausted ).
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Rainer B Schmitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Grief follows you everywhere even on a beach
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021
This book was easily read during an afternoon on holiday. A tough , positive and hopeful read . I now feel more confident to start a difficult conversation with someone who says they are “FINE” but I know deep down it’s the authors version of fine ( fed up , insecure , nervous and exhausted ).
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5.0 out of 5 stars A gem of a book - Don't be fooled by its simplicity!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2021
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You will be Okay is deep, thought provoking and very real. It may be written for children, but don’t be fooled by its simplicity. I have gifted it to friends whose children are dealing with a tragic loss. They just didn’t know how to have the conversations and felt helpless to know what was the right thing to say. You will be Okay helped them create the right moments. By reading it first they felt prepped. They said it was like having Julie in the room with them with the answers and took a huge weight off their shoulders.

With beautiful tenderness and honesty Julie sheds light on the darkness that grief casts upon our thoughts and behaviours and give permission to face the deep feelings that trip us up. With beautiful simplicity she weaves insights with stories, tools with tips that children can grasp and every adult can identify with. While reading it I had many moments of truth for myself in how I have dealt with grief, sometimes badly. Its genius is in its simplicity and peppered with golden nuggets that create some real wow moments as an adult. I can only imagine how life changing this will be for children at a really vulnerable and pivotal time in their young lives. A gem of a book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Insightful and Inclusive
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2021
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This is a brilliantly written practical guide about how to cope with death and grief. Whilst aimed at children it is a very easy and informative read for adults too. It explains how you can learn to manage the grief you experience associated with deaths in a variety of different relationships and also how you can help someone who is experiencing grief.

It would be easy for this to come across as patronising, but the direct language, real world examples of both people the author has worked with and the experiences of well known celebrities makes it easy for everyone to relate to the written words.

As a man I also can see that we have a tendency to shut out grief and I believe this book has tried really positively to reach out to boys which is unusual in similar books on grief.

As well as useful concepts like the balance between “holding on” and “letting go” there is also a lot of practical advice: useful questions to think about, creating and practicing your grief sentence, how to be kinder to yourself and how to address the fear of someone else dying.

As the author says “It’s a fact. How we think affects how we feel, and that affects how we behave.”
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Carol Richardson
5.0 out of 5 stars A 'go-to book' for supporting those who have experienced the death of a loved one
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2021
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Interestingly I was reading ‘You will be okay’ in the week after our much-loved family pet died. Although the author talks only about the death of family members and friends I found the content was also comforting as we adjust to life without our cat. I am in regular contact with young people and this will now be my ‘go-to’ book to begin a conversation that can all too often be avoided as it is hard to know what to say.
Having read ‘You will be okay’ I would have more confidence to approach a young person on this sensitive subject matter.

The informative message of how many muscles we use whilst coping with grief I find to be overwhelmingly true and demonstrated throughout the book allowing us to feel, share and understand what is happening to us at a very isolating, confusing and frightening time.

The stories shared give the ‘comfort blanket’ approach and encourage the reader to pick up and open the book at any page that is fit for the emotion at that time. All pages in the book give messages. signs and therapeutic distraction.

The tactile soft pages of the book take away the restriction of a hardback leaving an opening to hold the book into the body whist absorbing and reflecting.

Whoever has died, be it a person or pet, grief is grief. This book has been written from every perspective by a clearly very experienced and wonderful psychologist in her specialist field Julie Stokes, OBE.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant guide to support children through the grieving process
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2021
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As a Deputy Head, I have been searching for some time, for a book that would support children in school who were experiencing grief – and I have finally found it! I've read quite a few books on grief and I can honestly say, this is the best book so far. Each chapter guides the child through the stages of grief, what to expect, and helpful ideas to support them at a very difficult time in their life. The author has a clever way of talking directly to the child, as if she is sharing the grieving process with them. Her wise words and brilliant real life examples, helps the child to realise that they are not alone and that “they will be ok”. The author talks about famous people such as Roald Dahl, Tom Daley and Joe Biden and how they managed their grief after the loss of a loved one.
The author Julie Stokes writes sensitively and from the heart and I think this book should be available to every child who is or has experienced the loss of a loved one. I have bought a copy for the staffroom and one for each class – it’s that good! A big thank you to the author who has finally given children (and the people who work with them) a thoughtful, sensitive and practical guide to grief.
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Mr. T. G. Preston
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will help people be okay even when they feel they won't be.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2021
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We all loose people we love. I just wish I had had access to this amazing book when my parents died, my brother died leaving two 14 year old twins or when a good friend died of cancer leaving two teenagers trying to figure out what happened to their Dad.

This book makes grief okay. It gives permission to feel all sorts of emotion. It acts as a compass at a time when people are less able to navigate their way back to the light.

And because it is inspired by coaching it is practical, engaging, provocative and accessible despite the subject matter. To me, the biggest door it opens is the possibility that we have more control some of the time of more of our emotions than we allow ourselves to acknowledge - even when battling the most severe of emotional storms.

And importantly, although it appears in the 9 - 13 year old category, in my view it should be in the 9 to 99 year old category. A book for absolutely anyone dealing with loss.

Highly recommended.
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