Survive Grief & Come Back to Life: Memoir of a Survivor

Two weeks after my son died, I picked up a pencil. Not because I knew it would help. Because I did not know how else to survive.

Writing saved my life. And what I learned in the years that followed, as a counsellor, as a grief specialist, as a holistic therapist and spiritual coach, as a bereaved mother who had to find a way back to life, became this book.

Survive Grief and Come Back to Life is not written from a safe distance. It is written from inside the wound. It covers the grieving process, the five stages of grief, complicated grief, and how grief affects the body and the spirit as well as the mind. It includes self-help writing exercises because words have power, and practical guidance on coping with overwhelming emotion, navigating grief in your relationship, dealing with loss of sleep, and honouring your loved one while finding your way back to yourself.

It also holds the spiritual truth that grief often reveals: that healing goes deeper than the mind, that love does not end when life does, and that there are guides and graces available to those who are ready to receive them.

This book is for the woman who is at least a year into her grief and still cannot find solid ground. It is for the bereaved mother who has tried everything else. It is for the survivor of abuse or trauma who is grieving something that has no funeral. It is for anyone who needs proof that it is possible to come back to life.

Not because the loss gets smaller. Because you learn to carry it differently.

International bestseller in the UK, USA and Australia. Award-winning author. Grief Guru. Survivor.