Fourth of four.
What’s Your Grief? by Eleanor Hayley & Litsa Williams
There’s something very good that happens on the inside when you feel understood…
…or you come to understand.
Face-to-face this can be called empathy. I’m not sure what to call it when it’s in a book! Perhaps just that.
 I have only read portions of this book but I chose it for its format and because all the sample pages I could find online had an empathic effect. I also chose it to be a book that can be picked up and read in moments or minutes rather than one requiring more time to hold the flow of a whole chapter.
It’s very succinct and insightful drawing from the responses of thousands of people across many years. It deals primarily with death but also goes into other forms of grief (losses of all kinds can bring grief)… and the multiple connected griefs to the main grief… a tangible grief has a constellation of intangible griefs).
I’ll paste an article below that is from their website (not the book). And I’ll pop the website link in the first comment below.
I ordered this book through Amazon.
From the website: What’s Your Grief?
Grieving, in one word, is ________________________?
Sometimes, when we push ourselves to simplify, we clarify our own complicated and expansive experiences.
Grieving is learning
Grieving is initiation
Grieving is expansive
Grieving is daily
Grieving is surviving
Grieving is revealing
Grieving is full of surprises
Grieving is adjusting then readjusting. Constantly.
Grieving is yearning
Grieving is feeling
Grieving is life-shaking
Grieving is unpredictable
Grieving is deconstructing
Grieving is recontructing
Grieving is natural
Grieving is human
Grieving is real
Grieving is loving
Grieving is love
Grieving is transmutation
Grieving is part of life
Grieving is shapeshifting
Grieving is acknowledging
Grieving is learning to live without
Grieving is praise
Grieving is creating
Grieving is humbling
Grieving is devastating
Grieving is an irreparable emptiness
Grieving is remembering
Grieving is lonely
Grieving is spilling over, again and again.
Grieving is healing
Grieving is living
Grieving is re-living
Grieving is becoming
Grieving is re-learning
Grieving is exhausting
Grieving is all these things, all at once, everywhere


