Grief is a Sneaky Bitch de Lisa Keefauver

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch

Lisa Keefauver

A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.

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Notă biografică

Lisa Keefauver is a social worker, grief activist, and founder of Reimagining Grief. She is an adjunct professor of loss and grief at the University of Texas at Austin, an organizational consultant, and a keynote speaker (including at TEDx). In 2019, she created the popular podcast Grief is a Sneaky Bitch.

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Preface: Life Lessons Learned at the Bottom of the Ocean
Inviting You to Start Here: Orienting You to the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Grief
- Introduction: A Guide to Reading This Book
Time in Grief: Discovering How and Why Time Feels So Different
- the World’s Still Spinning
- Start Close in
- the Messy Middle
- Wait. Am I Still Grieving?
What the Hell Is Happening to Me? Helping You See the 360-Degree Impact of Grief (No, It’s Not Just All in Your Head)
- Everything Sucks (And Other Negative Thoughts)
- This Is Your Brain on Grief
- Your Body Knows
- Too Much Too Soon
- Emotions and Feelings and Moods, Oh My!
- Another Full-Time Job
Relating to Yourself and Others (Or Not): (Re)Discovering Yourself and Your Relationship to Others in Grief
- Everyone Is Stylish in Their Own Way
- Knowing and Honoring Your Needs
- Oh, the Places You Go and the People You See (And Why It’s Exhausting)
- People Say Stupid Shit
- Who’s Got Your Back?
- of Course It’s Complicated
- Access Denied
Pitfalls and Hazards: Identifying the Grief Thief and Other Speed Bumps to Navigating Loss
- Watch Out for the Grief Thief
- There Is No Grief GPS
- Ambiguity S-U-C-K-S
- Should Is a Dirty Word (And Not the Swearing Kind)
- Holidays, Anniversaries, and Other Grief Hazards
- Secondary Losses: The Sneakiest Bitches of Them All
Skills and Tools That Help Grief Suck Less: Discovering Ways to Soften the Hard Edges of Grief
- Notice Mindfully
- Improv Skills Help
- Your Turn to Buddy-Breathe
- Seek a Creative Resource
- Make Space
Now What? Bringing Curiosity to the Emerging Story of Your Life
- the Beautiful, Messy, Emerging You
- Memories for Safekeeping
- Meaning Making (Even Though It Didn’t Happen for a Reason)
- When Grief Becomes a Part of the Story—but Not the Whole
A Little Extra
- Appendix A: An Alphabet of Reminders for Your Grief Journey
- Appendix B: A Letter to the Grief Supporters
- Afterword
- QR Codes for Guided Meditations
- About the Author

Recenzii

This must-read companion guide for those who are grieving has captured the heartbreak of grief with compassion, insight, and humor. Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is the book we have been missing!

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is a candid, direct, and at times humorous exploration of the life-changing tides of loss. Keefauver expertly combines her clinical background and personal experiences to provide us with a compassionate and practical guide for navigating all forms of grief. Whether your loss was long ago or last week, this book will help you find your own way of living with it.

When we lose a loved one, Lisa Keefauver reminds us in Grief is a Sneaky Bitch, grief becomes a part of our story. But the good news is that it will never be our whole story. What could be more hopeful than that?

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is wise, accessible, safe, practical, and ultimately life-enhancing. Lisa's capacity to capture so many types of grief experiences, while honoring each and every one of them, astounds and comforts. This book is a true companion that each of us should always have close by.

Lisa Keefauver has done something miraculous in this book in that she has taken the griever into account. She knows that her readers will need short, easy-to-digest material while also providing them with depth, profundity, and step-by-step invitations to process grief. Grief is a Sneaky Bitch reads like a witty, truth-telling best friend mixed with the most supportive grief counselor you’ll ever meet. A beautiful companion for anyone moving through loss.

A truly helpful, honest, and important trail map for the journey we all eventually must take through grief. In easy-to-remember, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always truthful ways, Lisa is a superb guide.

Lisa Keefauver has crafted a warm, irreverent, and powerful guide for those of us who are either navigating grief, or supporting the bereaved. She manages the extraordinary feat of being inviting and accessible while at the same time packing in an immense amount of knowledge and science around grief and the grieving process. Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is an extraordinary, must-read companion for anyone struggling with any form of grief or loss.

An indispensable purchase...[Grief is a Sneaky Bitch] reassures readers that all their feelings and reactions are okay and dispels the myth that there is a singular “right” way to grieve...Keefauver’s warm conversational tone, along with a “judicious use of cussing,” permeates,exploring the physical and psychological effects of grieving and our cultural grief illiteracy...absolutely essential, highly recommended...—maybe buy two.

After becoming a widow, social worker Lisa Keefauver was shocked to discover how woefully ill-equipped our society was to deal with grief, despite it being an unavoidable part of life. This book is her empathetic yet candid guidebook—both a skills-building manual and a supportive companion validating the rawest emotions. Integrating wisdom from clinicians, authors, and hard-won personal experience, Keefauver upends reductive, traditional narratives about grief.

Through her work as a counselor and an activist, and now in her book, which takes its title from the podcast she launched in 2019, Keefauver uses humor and profanity to describe the disorientation that accompanies the ebb and flow of the grieving process.

With her trademark warmth and humor, Lisa demonstrates how we can hold both sorrow and wonder at the same time, not as a Pollyanna illusion but as a way to turn towards our darkest experiences. She shares profound insights on speaking up for our grief, finding community and ritual to make it suck less, and tools we can use to nourish our mind and spirit for the road ahead. Whether you're personally grieving or want to support someone who is, Lisa provides actionable advice on how we can all hold space for the bereaved and bear witness to the profound experience of loss.

Lisa Keefauver shares insights and compassion along with humor. She talks about the importance of sharing her husband’s life, not just his death. She encourages grief supporters to keep showing up for our grievers and to remember it’s not anyone’s job to fix them. Grievers aren’t broken. There’s nothing to fix.
Her fabulous book: GRIEF IS A SNEAKY BITCH: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss is out today! It’s one to own and gift. We love it as a grief resource.

Written in the tone of your "wise best friend", this book will keep you company, teach you, and support you as you navigate loss.

At its best, Keefauver’s book identifies one of the most heart-wrenching feelings many of us experience in the aftermath of loss, while shining a light to finding our way through.

Lisa shares her personal journey through grief, the importance of community support, and practical tips for living with grief in a way that honors our experiences...[this book] challenges the traditional narratives around grief and offers a fresh perspective on healing.

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