Grief & Loss for Young & Middle Adults: Affirming Support for Your Rawest Moments

Some days you can answer texts and show up to work. Other days, getting out of bed feels impossible.

You might be juggling jobs, school, bills, caregiving, or kids while trying to survive a loss that's blown your world apart. Friends don't always get it. Family may have expectations you can't meet. And the world keeps moving like nothing happened.

You're not broken, dramatic, or "too sensitive." You're grieving—and you deserve support that matches your life.

Written by registered nurse Denise Brege, with more than three decades in emergency and critical care, Grief & Loss for Young & Middle Adults offers grounded, trauma-informed guidance without platitudes, pressure, or timelines. It honors chosen family, invisible losses, and identities often ignored in traditional grief books.

Inside you'll find:

• Practical strategies for surviving work when you can barely function

• Scripts for setting boundaries with people who don't understand

• Guidance for parenting through grief when your kids still need you

• Support for losses others dismiss—estranged relationships, pregnancy loss, pet death, job loss, and more

• Tools for navigating relationships that are helping—and ones that aren't

• Real talk about grief and your body, brain, sleep, and appetite

• A "Continuing Bonds" section with 30 one-page readings for staying connected to who you've lost

Short sections. Real-life examples. Practical tools you can use in five minutes or less.

Your grief is valid. Your identity is not up for debate. You get to heal at your own pace—no "moving on," no gold stars, just one honest step at a time.

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Also available: A Companion Workbook & Journal with fill-in scripts, checklists, and journal space for the days when you need something concrete to hold onto.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.