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Gael Cullen’s story is one of resilience.  Of not just surviving, but owning the grief, refusing to let its tentacles pull apart the very fabric of a young family’s life and legacy.  And it’s a story of the surprising gifts that can result from this enduring personal loss. Read more in her memoir Owning Grief. 

The Language of Loss is a collection of stories about the overwhelming heartache of grief and the way in which we grow through pain. Author Natalie Sanchez uses her own experience of losing her dad at 18 as well as other stories of loss to help people in similar positions deal with their own grief.

Becoming Human explores the essence of grief and its evolutionary nature. Through cherished childhood memories, deep reflections, and current life experiences, Natalie Sanchez provides an introspective commentary on loss. This collection of vignettes features core themes of longing, connection, growth, and love, all sewn together by the universal desire to be understood. Becoming Human honors the grieving experiencing in many forms, documenting secondary losses, identity shifts, and the journey from girl to woman. Sanchez details her experience with honesty and hope that we can collectively return to our most intrinsic condition, that sweet spot of imperfection, depth, and shameless authenticity.

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch

A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.

When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we’re living in a grief illiterate world. In her work as a therapist, and in her search for help in the wake of her own loss, Keefauver began to see how the misguided stories we consume about grief lead to unnecessary suffering. Responding to the problematic narratives that grief is something to move on from after completing the five stages like some sort of to-do list, Keefauver became a grief activist. Through this book and her hit podcast of the same title, she creates a safe place to be inside the messiness of it all, to discover the full spectrum of grief, and to find the tools that help grievers move forward, not on. Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is a comprehensive guide—both a manual full of insights and skills and, even more importantly, a thoughtful companion that helps readers feel seen and held.