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inside grief
Inside Grief: Understanding the Brain After Loss is a self-guided workbook and companion to The Grieving Brain book by Mary-Frances O'Connor. Launching on Amazon and private sale through the author on October 15!
Grief changes more than how we feel.
It can affect the way we think, remember, concentrate, sleep, understand time, relate to ourselves, and move through an everyday world that no longer feels quite the same.
Inside Grief: Understanding the Brain After Loss was created to help make sense of those changes.
Written by grief educator Genna Reeves, Ph.D., this science-informed workbook translates contemporary grief research into approachable explanations, meaningful reflection, and practical opportunities to explore your own experience of loss. Rather than offering a formula for grieving—or telling you how you should be doing it—Inside Grief invites curiosity.
What is your brain trying to learn after loss? Why can someone know intellectually that a person has died while another part of the brain still seems to expect them to walk through the door? Why can grief make time, memory, identity, routines, and even familiar places feel different?
Across six self-guided sections and 42 reflective activities, you’ll explore questions like these while learning about concepts including the grieving brain, neuroplasticity, prediction and attachment, the Dual Process Model, grief trajectories, identity, routines, meaning-making, and the ways the brain gradually learns to navigate a changed world.
Inside the workbook, you’ll find:
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42 guided reflective activities to help connect grief science with your own lived experience
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Six sections for self-guided exploration
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Accessible explanations of how grief can affect the brain, memory, attention, sleep, identity, and daily life
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Chapter summaries, key concepts, and ideas to make complex research easier to understand
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Opportunities for reflection, grounding, meaning-making, and noticing what is changing over time
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A compassionate framework that recognizes there is no single correct way to grieve
Inside Grief can be used independently, alongside grief support or counseling, or by family members, friends, educators, and helping professionals who want to better understand grief from the inside.
It was developed as an independent companion workbook for readers of Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain, offering a way to slow down, reflect on key ideas, and consider how grief science connects with your own story.
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