Grieving Us

What happens to you when someone you love dies? Who was that person or animal companion in your life?

Loss comes along. First it breaks your heart, then it stays.

How do you live with loss without losing yourself?

This book is about learning to live with loss and with joy every day. While loss comes along with you for life, grief doesn’t have to be forever.

Through storytelling and simple practices, you’ll take a break from grief, find new ways to hold on to the one you love, and design your life-support system for living with loss.

In Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living With Loss Without Losing Yourself, Kimberley Pittman-Schulz shares how she discovered the power of Tiny-Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Rituals to turn her two-year struggle with unrelenting sorrow after the death of her mother into a life of deeper meaning and joy. While writing the book, she also explored the realities of anticipatory grief as she helped her husband navigate advanced heart failure in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.