Ask the Author: Shea Darian
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Shea Darian
Re: My book, Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change (2022): "Grief is as common as rain in Pensacola, but we humans know so little about it. I aimed to change that. Working as a family and grief educator, I discovered that popular perspectives on grief are based on outdated theories and incomplete research that suggest a one-size-fits-most grieving process. So, I translated cutting-edge grief and bereavement research into real-life terms that grievers can understand and apply in their everyday lives with family members of all ages. I created a compass of the grieving process that contains four types of grieving responses that are universal to all grievers but experienced and expressed uniquely by each of us. When college students began telling me that my work on grief was one of the most useful things they had learned in all their years of going to school, I knew I was on to something. I wanted to write a book about grief that is engaging, inspiring and uplifting – a book that gives people hope."
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