Grief is a Sneaky Bitch

Grief is a Sneaky BitchCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781035426430 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2024 Publisher: Headline Description: 'A truly helpful, honest, and important trail map for the journey we all eventually must take through grief' Steve Leder, New York Times bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains 'An immense amount of knowledge and science around grief and the grieving process' Colin Campbell, author of Finding the Words When social worker Lisa

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781035426430
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2024
Publisher: Headline


Description:
'A truly helpful, honest, and important trail map for the journey we all eventually must take through grief' - Steve Leder, New York Times bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains

'An immense amount of knowledge and science around grief and the grieving process' - Colin Campbell, author of Finding the Words

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.

Keefauver shares her personal and professional wisdom alongside the lessons she's learned from clinicians, authors, poets, and friends. In place of rigid instructions and must-do checklists, Grief is a Sneaky Bitch invites reflection, encourages self-compassion and explores the