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.