Adding the E: Perspectives of Grief Through Recounts, Letters, and Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781737846970)

Here's the thing about grief: It doesn't take someone special to understand that you are going through pain. But unless you get it, you don't get it. Grief is harrowing, isolating, and all-encompassing. After experiencing a significant loss, it's not uncommon to adopt a narrative that we are alone, and no one understands what we go through.

Grief and trauma therapist, Arielle Sokoll-Ward, LCSW, challenges those beliefs by uncovering her most honest form: Raw, abraded, unapologetic grief. Within these pages, you are invited to find the language that describes your own grief as Arielle shares her journey through the emotional havoc of surviving the death of her partner through ongoing narrative, letters, and poetry. She explores how the losses that are riding shotgun in our life can connect us closer to each other in familiar lived experiences, leading to our own resilience.

Pulling from a series of responses from her research on the lived experience of grief and anonymously sharing client experiences within the therapeutic space, Arielle provides explanations, common themes, and insights on the grieving process.

Loss goes far beyond death. Grief and love are a paired partnership; one does not exist without the other. So, if you have felt either, this book is for you.