NOBODY WARNED ME GRIEF COULD LOOK LIKE THI

A blunt grief workbook for numbness, rage, relief, family weirdness, paperwork, and all the feelings that do not fit on sympathy cards.

Grief does not always look like crying beautifully while holding a framed photograph.

Sometimes grief looks like rage.

Sometimes it looks like sleeping all day.

Sometimes you cannot sleep at all.

Sometimes you laugh and immediately feel guilty.

Sometimes you are relieved.

Sometimes you are angry at the person who died.

Sometimes you feel absolutely nothing and start wondering what is wrong with you.

Sometimes you want company.

Sometimes you want everybody to stop calling.

Sometimes you are grieving while simultaneously trying to locate passwords, cancel accounts, call relatives, answer texts, plan services, find documents, pay bills, clean a room, and figure out what the hell happens next.

Nobody Warned Me Grief Could Look Like This was created for that grief.

The unedited version.

Inside, you’ll work through:

• Numbness and emotional shutdown
• Anger and rage
• Relief and the guilt that can follow it
• Unexpected laughter and moments of joy
• Regret and unfinished conversations
• Family conflict after a death
• The pressure to grieve the “right” way
• When everybody expects you to be okay
• Paperwork while your brain barely works
• Social exhaustion
• Anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, and triggers
• What to keep, give away, move, or leave alone for now
• Identity after loss
• Learning how to live without turning moving forward into betrayal

This workbook will not ask you to make grief pretty.

It gives you somewhere to tell the truth about it.

You are allowed to miss them.

You are allowed to be angry.

You are allowed to laugh.

You are allowed to feel relieved.

You are allowed to feel nothing today.

Grief is not a performance. Nobody gets to grade how you do it.