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Kapolei-based Author Shares How Dreams Can Ease Grief
BY DON ROBBINS
sister,” Lee remembers.
“I hope my story of pain and healing can help those grieving their own losses find some light through the darkness of grief,” Lee ex-
people that she was here and that her life mattered,” Lee declares.
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.
a polymer clay artist. Then, Lee started doing digital art to create her own prod- uct line, and is now writing again.
Kapolei resident Jenn Lee is the author of a new- ly released book about how dreams of her late sister guided her through grief and helped her discover a path that ultimately led to peace.
plains.
“I am a lifelong writer,
Lee’s book reveals how 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- came a freelance editor for a few years then started a few websites that I blogged for full time,” Lee recalls.
“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 daugh- ters who fill every day with love, laughter and lots of noise,” Lee shares joyfully.
The book is available on Amazon and it is ti- tled Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister.
but this is my first pub- lished book. When I first started writing down all of my dreams about my sister, I had no intention to turn them into a book,” says Lee.
“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.
Lee’s late sister, Lyn Chincio, died from cancer in July 2019. She worked as a second-grade teacher at He- lemano Elementary School in the Whitmore Village neighborhood of Wahiawā.
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 experi- encing wasn’t typical, as far as grieving was concerned.
The cover of West O‘ahu author Jenn Lee’s new book Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister. IMAGE COURTESY JENN LEE
what was going on. It was also a way to pay tribute to my sister, to put some- thing permanent out into the world about her, to show
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Eventually, Lee sold those websites to a main- land company and became
“We were incredibly close and shared our lives with each other and our middle
“So, I started writing the book as a way to explore
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.
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