The Grief Companion

Grief is love with nowhere to go.Nothing in here will fix it. It was written by somebody who knows that - for the days when you need a page rather than a person.Not therapy. Not a timeline. Not five stages. Somewhere to put your hands when the whole thing is too big to hold: what grief does to a body, why the second year is so often harder than the first, and what to say when your words go.Open it anywhere. Every page stands alone. Skip what does not apply, write badly in it, and put it down for months if you need to. Nobody is marking your progress.Inside: - The mechanics, honestly - the waves, the physical symptoms, the if-only loop- The grief nobody sends cards for: complicated loss, estrangement, the death of a pet- Scripts for the conversations you dread, and a list to hand to whoever asks how they can help- A plan for anniversaries and hard dates, written in advance while you can still think- Eight support cards to cut out - four to keep, four to give away- Pages to record what you do not want to forget: their voice, their laugh, their storyFor the newly bereaved, and for the people three years in who are tired of being told they should be over it. Room to write on every prompt page.A self-help companion, not counseling or treatment. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line.Her Royal Madness - a little kingdom for people who never quite fit into ordinary.