Event EndedWriting for Wellbeing: Parental Loss in all its Shapes and Forms

Grief Centre of Western Australia

105 Banksia Street, 6060, Tuart Hill, WA, Australia

Katrin Den Elzen

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Katrin Den Elzen (PhD) is an experienced Writing for Wellbeing facilitator, author and researcher. She works as a grief counsellor for the Grief Centre of WA and teaches Writing for Wellbeing at Murdoch University for counselling students. Katrin has a doctorate in Creative Writing.In 2021 Katrin designed and undertook a Writing for Wellbeing research study with bereaved participants with Curtin University. in 2023 she has also published a textbook on Writing for Wellbeing.Katrin has personally experienced the processing of her traumatic grief to finding peace and purpose following the death of her husband. She has published the grief memoir "Locked In – Daring to Break Free", which set her on the path to becoming a Writing-for-wellbeing practioner and researcher.At 39, Katrin Den Elzen has a charmed life. Her world shatters overnight when her husband Mark becomes locked into his body, fully paralysed. In this courageous, compassionate and unflinching memoir, Katrin recounts her battle for Mark’s survival within the confines of a rigid hospital system. As a widow, she embarks on a quest to heal her trauma so that her two children can grow up happy. Locked In – Daring to Break Free is an exquisitely expressed, inspiring portrait of love, loss and finding peace in the face of profound suffering.This is a story of resilience, recovery and remaking.Writing for Wellbeing Publications:Den Elzen, K & Lengelle, R. (Eds). (2023. Writing for Wellbeing: Theory, Research, and Practice, Routledge.Den Elzen, K., Breen, L. J., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2023). Rewriting grief following bereavement and non-death loss: A pilot writing-for-wellbeing study. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 425-443.