Love in the Face of Grief

Love in the Face of Grief is a heartfelt, practical guide for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Chocked full of stories from Lorraine’s extensive career speaking with people who are dying and those who are living with grief, this book delivers a refreshing approach to grief to offer healing words and rituals for those who live with a broken heart. Whether you have lost someone recently, or your pet of many years has died, or you have silently held the grief of a loved one dying years ago, Love in the face of Grief will speak to ease the yearning that comes when miss those who are no longer living.

Available Dec 1, 2026

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The Crafting of Grief

The Crafting of Grief focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief, supporting people by helping them craft their own responses to bereavement rather than trying to squeeze experiences into a model. This book can guide professionals who work with those living with grief to create loving conversations following the death of a someone they love.

Authors Hedtke and Winslade argue convincingly that therapists and counselors can support people more by helping them craft their own responses to bereavement rather than trying to squeeze experiences into a model. In the pages of this book, readers will learn how to develop lines of inquiry based on the concept of continuing bonds, and they’ll discover ways to use these ideas to help the bereaved craft stories that remember loved ones’ lives.

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Keeping Relationships Alive

When a person dies, the bereaved are often tragically encouraged to say “goodbye” and complete unfinished business. Remembering practices aim to keep relationships alive by drawing on practices of story-telling, narrative legacy and rituals. Using these stories and rituals, relationships can develop new qualities following the death of a loved one. Grief becomes an evolving and creative opportunity for story development and change, rather than an unpleasant task to be worked through as quickly possible.

 

Supporting the Continuation of the Life of Stories

Remembering practices support the continuation of the life of stories rather than dwelling on the finality of death. When we understand that a relationship continues long after a person has died, we can appreciate how death provides opportunities for the telling loving stories that can be formed to construct future memories and guide our way through painful life transitions that often comes with the death of a loved one. We can employ the power of story to transcend physical mortality to promote the remembering of lives and the importance of maintaining connections.

 

Watch Lorraine’s Ted Talk Defining the Future of Grief Psychology with Love

The Fabula Center

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At The Fabula Center, we work with the raw material of stories and weave them into narratives that are life, and love affirming. For those who are living with grief, memories are connected together to create stories to honor ongoing connections, rather than insisting on separation from dead loved ones. We support and help people to find their way moving forward, with the love and stories of their loved one along side of them, inspiring and guiding to put one foot in front of the other.

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