Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death by Hedtke, Lorraine, MSW PhD

Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798889843641)

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Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death by Hedtke, Lorraine, MSW PhD

Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death

$21.95
Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death by Hedtke, Lorraine, MSW PhD

Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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A deeply human guide for anyone experiencing grief and loss.

This book rejects the rigid pressures of conventional grief psychology, illuminating powerful truths: relationships and emotional connections don't end at death. There's no fixed timeline for "moving on." And many of the guidelines we've been taught around grief are rooted more in self-help myth than in embodied healing wisdom.

Love doesn't disappear when the one you love is gone.

Drawing on decades as a counselor, professor, and bereaved partner, Lorraine Hedtke offers a layered, relational approach to grief that helps you continue your bond with your loved one--gently, naturally, and with profound emotional honesty. Through client stories, practical tools, and powerful rituals, Love in the Face of Grief guides you into a transformative relationship with loss. You'll learn how to:

  • Navigate the complex and sometimes contradictory emotions of grief--like despair, anger, relief, longing, guilt, and resentment--without shame
  • Explore rituals for deepening your relationship with your loved one who's passed
  • Draw on the stories of the dead as sources of wisdom and active guidance--not just reminiscence
  • Honor and listen to the way they show up posthumously, in dreams, symbols, memories, and intuition
  • Use grief practices to access strength, resilience, legacy, and purpose
  • Define an active role in your life for your deceased loved one

This book approaches grief as a communal event, echoing the work of elders like Francis Weller, Joanna Macy, and Martín Prechtel. Hedtke shows you how connection to your loved one can be found in the most unlikely of places and cultivated throughout a lifetime. Love in the Face of Grief is a balm, an invitation, and necessary counterbalance to a culture that asks us to close up and move on. Above all, it shows us what to do with all our enduring love, even after the one we love is gone.

Author: Lorraine MSW PhD Hedtke
ISBN-13: 9798889843641
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2026
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Lorraine MSW PhD Hedtke
By Lorraine MSW PhD Hedtke
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Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, PhD, is a veteran narrative therapist who has helped reshape modern grief psychology. A counselor and Professor Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, she specializes in post-structural, narrative approaches with people who are dying and with families after a death. Lorraine is the proprietor of the Fabula Center for counseling and training in Redlands, California, and the coauthor, with John Winslade, of The Crafting of Grief: Constructing Aesthetic Responses to Loss. She lectures internationally to counselors, therapists, and medical professionals, and her work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and German. Featured on TEDx and widely published in professional texts and handbooks, Hedtke is a leading voice in relational approaches to bereavement, inviting the bereaved to sustain loving, story-rich connections with those who have died.

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