The Grief Healing Journey · A Book Series
A series of quiet, nonreligious companions for the different shapes loss can take. No stages to complete, no timetable, and no one telling you how you should feel.
Find your bookEach book in this series meets one particular kind of grief on its own terms: a partner, a parent, a child, a pregnancy, a brother or sister, an animal you loved. Short chapters you can open in any order, on the day you need them. Read several pages at once, or one paragraph and then close the book for a month.
You are not behind, and you are not doing it wrong.
The Books
Every title is available on Kindle, in paperback and in hardcover, and free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
For any loss
A Gentle Companion for Grief, Loss, and the Life That Continues
For the long season after losing someone you love. Gentle words for the guilt, the what-ifs and the things left unsaid, and quiet company through the first birthdays, holidays and the anniversary.
After losing a pet
Gentle Words for the Days After Losing an Animal You Loved
The bowl is still where it always was. Losing a dog, a cat or any companion who was family is real grief. Comfort for the empty routines, the last decisions, and grieving at your own pace.
After losing a spouse or partner
Finding Your Way After the Loss of a Spouse and Into Widowhood
There may still be two towels on the rail. For the first impossible weeks, the paperwork and the empty side of the bed, and for becoming me again without erasing we.
After losing a mother or father
Comfort for the Years After Losing a Mother or Father
You lose the person, and the last one who remembers you small. For Sundays when your hand still reaches for the phone, and for relationships that were loving, difficult, or both.
After losing a child
For the Parents Learning to Live After the Loss of a Child
Built from what bereaved parents said they needed and never found. For the question of how many children you have, two parents grieving in different rhythms, and the room nobody is ready to open.
Miscarriage & infant loss
Quiet Company Through Miscarriage and Infant Loss
Steady company after a pregnancy or a baby has died, for a loss much of the world never learns how to name. Nothing here explains why it happened, and nothing here hands you the blame.
Suicide loss
Quiet Company for Survivors of Suicide Loss
Written for the hour when you need a book that does not make tonight harder. Forty-two short chapters, no method detail and no checklist of warning signs, for everyone the loss touched.
After losing a brother or sister
Something to Hold After Losing a Brother or Sister
For when people start asking how your parents are. Close, distant or only just finding your way back to each other: forty-two chapters, each ending with one small thing you can do on a hard day.
Grandparents after losing a grandchild
A Gentle Companion for Grandparents After the Loss of a Grandchild
You lost a grandchild, and you are watching your own child live through it. A companion that does not rank your loss against your child's, and does not ask you to wait your turn.
Hi, I'm Natalie.
Grief shaped the way I saw the world long before I began this work. It did not give me a map for anyone else's sorrow. It left me with a lasting respect for how personal every loss is, which is why I will never tell you that I understand exactly how you feel.
Years later I began creating the quiet things a memorial service needs, for families I would often never meet. Their stories affirmed what I already knew: no two losses are the same, and grief should never be ranked or hurried.
My books do not offer stages to complete or a timetable for moving forward. I write for the difficult mornings, the ordinary afternoons and the anniversaries. Nothing in my writing will hurry you.
Read my full story
Every book in the series is written to the same promise, whichever loss brought you here.
Your loss is never compared to anyone else's. Grief is distilled from a love and a life only you shared.
No stages to complete and no lessons you are expected to learn. Open any chapter, on the day you need it.
Warm and never preachy. What comes after is yours to believe; these pages stay with the life in front of you.
Gentle Goodbye Studio
Alongside the books, I make editable memorial templates: photo boards, orders of service, prayer cards and slideshows. Edit them in Canva and download instantly, with no design software needed.