Transformative Books for People Living With Grief and Professionals Who Work With Them
Love in the Face of Grief
A deeply human guide for anyone experiencing loss.
This book rejects the rigid pressures of conventional grief psychology. Drawing on decades of experience, Lorraine offers a layered, relational approach that helps you continue your bond with your loved one—gently, naturally, and with profound emotional honesty.
Pioneering the Narrative Approach
These works serve as the theoretical and practical foundation for “re-membering” conversations, used by clinicians and educators worldwide.
The Crafting of Grief
Focuses on helping people chart their own path through grief as a work of art rather than a medical model.
Bereavement Support Groups
A structured guide for facilitators to breathe life into stories of the dead within a group setting.
Remembering Lives
Conversations with the Dying and Bereaved. A revolutionary text that rejects the need for “closure” in favor of “membership.”
My Grandmother is Always With Me
Co-written with a twelve-year-old “expert,” this heartwarming picture book addresses death from a child’s perspective. It includes a “Grown-up's Guide to Remembering” to help parents and educators support children through the storytelling process.
The Crafting of Grief: Constructing Aesthetic Responses to Loss
Translated into Japanese by Yasunaga Komori (2019)
by Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade (2004)
Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved
Remembering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and Bereaved is a ground-breaking book about speaking to people who are dying and living with grief by Hedtke & Winslade (2005). The Japanese translation by Yasunaga Komori; Chikako Ishii & Hikaru Okuno brings this innovative approach for those in Japan.
An International Legacy
Dr. Hedtke’s work is a global resource, with titles available in Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and German, ensuring the message that “love does not die” reaches every corner of the world.