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Wahiawā-raised Author Shares How Dreams Can Ease Grief
BY DON ROBBINS
each other and our middle sister,” Lee remembers.
“It’s difficult to single out a dream, as I think they work better collectively — like pieces of a puzzle that need to be fit together to see the whole picture — but I had two dreams during that first year in which my sister came back to life,” Lee explains.
came a freelance editor for a few years, then started a few websites that I blogged for full time,” Lee recalls.
Jenn Lee grew up in Wa- hiawā, and is the author of a newly released book about how dreams of her late sister guided her through grief and helped her discover a path that ultimately led to peace.
“I hope my story of pain and healing can help those grieving their own losses find some light through the darkness of grief,” she adds.
Eventually, Lee sold those websites to a mainland com- pany and became a polymer clay artist.
The book, which is available on Amazon, is ti- tled Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister.
“I am a lifelong writer, but this is my first published book. When I first start- ed writing down all of my dreams about my sister, I had no intention to turn them into a book,” says Lee, who who now lives in Kapolei.
(Left) The cover of Wahiawā-raised author Jenn Lee’s new book Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister (Above) The late Lyn Chincio, who is the inspiration for the theme of the book.
PHOTOS COURTESY JENN LEE
In one of them, it was just an accepted fact that she was able to come back to visit for a set amount of time.
Later, Lee started doing digital art to create her own product line, and is now writing again.
Lee’s late sister, Lyn Chincio, died from cancer in July 2019.
She says when she would tell people about the kinds of dreams she was having and their frequency, the re- actions she got made it clear that what she was experienc- ing wasn’t typical, as far as grieving was concerned.
book as a way to explore what was going on. It was also a way to pay tribute to my sister, to put something permanent out into the world about her, to show people that she was here and that her life mattered,” Lee de-
clares.
Lee’s book reveals how
Lee’s love of writing be- gan in childhood, and she earned a master’s degree in English with a creative writ- ing concentration from Uni- versity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
“I discovered that as long as I’m creating something I care about and I feel cre- atively fulfilled, then I’m happy. As for family, I’m married to my best friend — we just celebrated our 15th anniversary last month — and we have two daughters who fill every day with love, laughter, and lots of noise,” Lee shares joyfully.
She worked as a second grade teacher at Helemano Elementary School in the Whitmore Village neighbor- hood of Wahiawā.
her first year of dreaming about her late sister impacted the grief process, and helped Lee to not only rediscover a sense of purpose, but also find peace in the process.
“My first (and only) ‘nor- mal’ job after grad school was as an editor. I learned quickly that the 9-to-5 life- style wasn’t for me, so I be-
“We were incredibly close and shared our lives with
“So, I started writing the
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