Grief & Loss
Grief & Loss
Grief and Loss Support Books
Gentle books for bereavement, miscarriage, infertility, friendship loss, pet loss and grief that does not follow a tidy timeline.
23 focused booksPDF + EPUB£8.88 each
Every manuscript was written by Elia Sal without generative AI.
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Elia SalThe Affair You Are Recovering FromDigital book

Grief & Loss
The Affair You Are Recovering From
There is a particular loneliness in grieving something you are not allowed to grieve, and if you have picked up this book, you may know it intimately.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Chronic Illness DiagnosisDigital book

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The Chronic Illness Diagnosis
There was a day the doctor said the words, and your life divided into before and after.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Death of a ParentDigital book

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The Death of a Parent
Your parent has died, and the world is different now.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Difficulty of ReceivingDigital book

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The Difficulty of Receiving
There is a certain kind of person, and you may be one of them, who can give endlessly and receive almost nothing at all.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Empty NestDigital book

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The Empty Nest
There is a particular silence that settles on a house when the last child has gone.Read about this book →Elia SalThe High Functioning WorrierDigital book

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The High Functioning Worrier
There is a kind of person who looks, from the outside, entirely calm and capable, and who is, on the inside, churning with worry every hour of the day, and if you are one of them, you know how lonely that gap between the surface and the interior can be.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Loss of a PetDigital book

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The Loss of a Pet
They were part of your life, part of your home, part of your every day.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Unfinished ConversationDigital book

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The Unfinished Conversation
There was a conversation you needed to have, and it never happened.Read about this book →Elia SalWhen Grief Has No NameDigital book

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When Grief Has No Name
You are grieving, and no one seems to think you should be.Read about this book →Elia SalWhen Someone You Love Has Died by SuicideDigital book

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When Someone You Love Has Died by Suicide
Someone you love has died by suicide, and you are living inside a grief that few losses can equal.Read about this book →Elia SalWhen You Feel Like a FraudDigital book

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When You Feel Like a Fraud
You are, by most measures, doing well.Read about this book →Elia SalWhen Your Father Was AbsentDigital book

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When Your Father Was Absent
Your father is out there somewhere, or was, and yet he was not there.Read about this book →Elia SalWhen Your Parents Are AgingDigital book

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When Your Parents Are Aging
There comes a time, in many lives, when the ground quietly shifts beneath us, when the parents who raised us, who were the strong ones, the capable ones, the ones we turned to, begin to age, to grow frailer, to need us in ways they never did before, and we find ourselves facing one of the…Read about this book →Elia SalThe Grief That Has No EndingDigital book

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The Grief That Has No Ending
More than her own life, Freya loved her son; and constantly, alongside that love, she grieved for him. For years she could not understand how both could be true at once, nor why this grief, unlike every other she had known, refused to resolve.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Second WaveDigital book

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The Second Wave
Twenty-six months after his father died, Marek left a trolley in the aisle of a garden centre and sat in his car for forty minutes.Read about this book →Elia SalAfter MiscarriageDigital book

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After Miscarriage
This book is for someone carrying a loss that the world too often refuses to see. If you have had a miscarriage, an early one, the kind people rush to call common as though common meant small, then you have lost something real, and you are grieving, and I want you to know from the very first page that your grief is not a mistake and not an overreaction and not something to be managed away.Read about this book →Elia SalGrieving a FriendshipDigital book

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Grieving a Friendship
There is no word for what happened to you, and I think that is most of the problem.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Thing He Could Not SayDigital book

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The Thing He Could Not Say
Owen knew the results before the consultant finished the sentence.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Room You Had ReadyDigital book

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The Room You Had Ready
Verity is thirty-four. Eleven months ago she went into hospital at thirty-eight weeks with a bag packed and a car seat in the boot, and she came home four days later with neither.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Grief of InfertilityDigital book

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The Grief of Infertility
This book is for someone carrying a grief that almost no one around them recognises as grief at all. If you are struggling to conceive, or living through the long ordeal of infertility, then you are grieving, really grieving, a child you have not been able to have and a future you had always assumed was yours, and I want you to know from the very first page that your grief is real and that you are allowed to feel it.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Grief of Not Having ChildrenDigital book

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The Grief of Not Having Children
This book is for someone grieving a life that will not, now, contain the children they wanted. Not a miscarriage, and not the monthly ordeal of infertility, but the settled, lifelong grief of childlessness itself, however you came to it. If you wanted children and do not have them, and you are mourning that quietly, in a world that does not seem to understand there is anything to mourn, then this book was written for you, and I want you to know from the first page that your grief is real and that you are allowed to feel it.Read about this book →Elia SalThe Knock at the DoorDigital book

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