Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief

Help in Healing from Grief and Loss

Living Now Book Award, Silver – Aging, Death, & Dying

“Filled with insight, wisdom, and relatable stories, this resource shares everything you need to know to start living again with joy, meaning, and love after loss.” —Chelsea Hanson, author of The Sudden Loss Survival Guide

Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief is a handbook for dealing with grief, organized so that you can pick and choose a topic from the table of contents pertaining to the issue affecting you the most at that moment.

Rediscover sustained moments of joy as you seek a new way of being in the world. Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief guides and lightens the journey to positivity for those who feel the pain of loss, whether it is the loss of a loved one, a job, a marriage, a house, a pregnancy, a nest egg—anyone or anything that we loved and that is no longer in our lives. In this book, author and fellow griever Emily Thiroux Threatt provides you with strategies to embrace the process of learning how to start living again. The book includes 26 practices and stories from people who have been through the grieving process and have come out on the other side feeling renewed: one for every week of the year.

Mourning and coping with grief looks different for everyone. Emily organized Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief with this in mind, giving you 26 different options to try in any given moment. Find what works for you, with dozens of ideas covered, including:

• Meditating and allowing space for mindful grieving, sadness and loneliness
• Finding joy and gratitude in the dark moments
• Learning what you can say to others so that they can better understand and help you in your recovery

If you’ve found help from grief books like It's OK That You're Not OK, Bearing the Unbearable, To Love and Let Go, or Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died, then you’ll be encouraged and inspired by all of the tips and ideas in Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Lori’s Letter

Chapter 2: Wrap Yourself in Love

Chapter 3: Feeling How You Feel

Chapter 4: Putting Your Affairs in Order

Chapter 5: Meditation

Chapter 6: Cocooning

Chapter 7: Loss

Chapter 8: Gratitude

Chapter 9: Self-Love

Chapter 10: Judgement

Chapter 11: Being Social

Chapter 12: Loneliness

Chapter 13: Joy

Chapter 14: Resources

Chapter 15: Your Transformation Timeline

Chapter 16: Changing Your Surroundings

Chapter 17: The Stages of Grief

Chapter 18: Your Memories

Chapter 19: Releasing: Clean Out Your Closet

Chapter 20: What Others Say

Chapter 21: Love

Chapter 22: Grief Is Healthy

Chapter 23: Tell Your Story

Chapter 24: Give Yourself Permission to Do What You Want

Chapter 25: Crying in the Car

Chapter 26: Feeling Guilty

About the Author

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