Grieving Us

A Field Guide for Living with Loss Without Losing Yourself

De: Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

Narrado por: Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

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

How do you live with loss without losing yourself?

Grief doesn’t have to be forever. Through storytelling & simple strategies, 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 … and with joy.

In Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living With Loss Without Losing Yourself, Kimberley Pittman-Schulz shares how tiny sensory rituals and self-supporting practices turned her two-year struggle with sorrow after her mother’s death into deeper meaning and well-being. She also explores anticipatory grief as she helps her husband navigate advanced heart failure during a pandemic.

Loss rewrote your world—now you have to learn to live inside the story it left behind.

Kimberley offers the missing “how-to” instructions for integrating loss into a new season of life. She helps you:

•Work through the kaleidoscope of thoughts, emotions, and physical impacts in your grief

•Keep your loved one with you as a nurturing presence as you learn to live forward

•Grieve mindfully by leaning into ordinary moments and the natural world to unlock a deeper sense of aliveness

•See that joy isn’t a destination after grief—joy is a path through grief and back into well-being

•Push back on biases that rank some losses as more grief-worthy—no matter who you’ve lost, even a beloved animal, the grief is real

Author Kimberley Pittman-Schulz’s life has been shaped by loss—two sisters died in a house fire when she was a toddler, and later the life-shifting death of her mother. She spent 25+ years guiding families through end-of-life and legacy planning. Today she mentors and coaches people in the U.S. and abroad in reimagining life amid loss and lingering trauma. She speaks with a poet’s sensibility and empathetic wisdom.

Grieving Us is an upbeat guide for living your one-and-only, heart-broken-and-still-beautiful life.

©2021 Kimberley Pittman-Schulz (P)2021 Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

I got triggered - be warned before reading this!!!

I was hoping this book would help me with my ever evolving grief. I am 15 years into my grief journey and have been working with a therapist. I lost my mother at a young age. My mother’s two sisters both fell ill this year with similar diagnoses to my mother so I was starting to feel heavy grief again. I turned to this book that was recommended to me. The author’s personal story in the beginning had me so triggered I still cannot look at this book without the overwhelming feeling of sadness that the story brought on. There was a mild warning from the author but I do not feel this story was needed nor warranted in a book about grief. It’s been a few months since this happened and I just came across the book in my audible account. I’m finally able to write this review and delete the book from my library. Just be very careful if you are grieving a loss and read this book.

A great book, worth listening.

I have just lost my younger brother and was looking for an audiobook that would bring me some peace. This book was definitively very helpful as the author displays a solid understanding of grief and loss and offers feasible ways of dealing with the pain of loss. She keeps the listener engaged through her very interesting view of the world around her as well as the metaphors she uses to explain her point of view. It seems like she has a thing for birds and science which makes the reading even more interesting; I definitively learned new things. This book is worth listening.