"Healing After the Loss of Your Parents: Finding Comfort & Purpose Through This New Life Stage as an Adult Orphan" is a compassionate, insightful, and empowering grief recovery guidebook that helps listeners navigate through grief, cope with the profound changes that follow the death of their parents, and learn new ways to rebuild their life after loss.

Whether we think we are prepared or not, the passing of our parents ushers in a new stage in life as an “adult orphan.” With it often comes a disorienting period of intense loneliness as we confront existential changes to our identity, sense of mortality, family of origin, and life purpose. It also tends to reawaken grief over the loss of our first parent.

This “natural rite of passage” brings a complex layer of grief and adaptation. After their deaths, it’s common to feel lost and wonder: “What do I do now?” “Who am I now without them?” “Why do I feel so… untethered?”

When our sense of direction and security in the world is turned upside down, what we need is a compassionate grief sherpa to guide us through.

This heartfelt grief recovery guidebook takes the listener through the challenging journey of loss, offering insight from neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed counselors, thought leaders, and wisdom teachers to help answer many common questions asked by those in mourning.

Ultimately, the real experts in coping with grief are everyday people who have walked this path before and provide advice and encouragement on how they emerged from their heartache to discover hope and healing.

This comprehensive, step-by-step guidebook is a valuable compass and resource for both the person dealing with this life-altering experience and those seeking practical ways to support a loved one at a time that forever changes them.

Written by Elaine Mallon, author of the acclaimed grief recovery guidebook "Healing After the Loss of Your Mother," among Best Grief Books of All Time by BookAuthority.