When the First Love Leaves: Healing After Losing a Parent

No one prepares you for the specific grief of losing a parent.

Not the way the world keeps moving while yours has stopped. Not the way you can suddenly feel orphaned even as a fully grown adult. Not the quiet loss of being known by the person who loved you first, longest, and most completely.

This book was written for that grief — for the complicated, non-linear, often surprising experience of losing a mother, a father, or a parental figure at any stage of life.

What you will find inside:

✦  Why the grief of losing a parent feels different from any other loss

✦  The emotions no one talks about — anger, guilt, relief, numbness — and why they are all valid

✦  How to navigate family dynamics when everyone is grieving differently

✦  Honoring their memory without getting stuck in it

✦  Rebuilding your identity when the person who knew you best is gone

✦  Practical guidance for the days, weeks and months ahead

✦  Reflection prompts at the end of every chapter for journaling or quiet self-reflection

No timelines. No stages to check off. No pressure to be further along than you are.

Just honest, compassionate company — written so you never have to feel completely alone in this.