A Guide Through Grief – First Aid for Your Heart and Soul

Practical tools, creative activities and yoga exercises to help you cope with loss.

Grief hurts. It hurts like hell. It’s only natural to want to run as far and as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Trouble is, the further you run, the greater the spectre of your grief becomes, growing into a terrifying monster, hot on your heels.

Don’t be afraid. Use this book to help you turn and face that monster of grief. Maybe you’ll find it’s not that scary after all. Discover ways to tame your grief and make it a wise friend to walk beside through life.

There is a way forward. You will feel better. You will learn to smile again. One day at a time. One step at a time. Breath by breath.

Let me take your hand and gently guide you towards healing the pain of losing someone you love. A new dawn is on its way.

Whether you’re struggling with the loss of someone or something you love, or just your sense of meaning or self, this book will bring comfort and help you find a way forward.

A Guide Through Grief is the book I wish I’d been given when I was fourteen, experiencing grief for the first time after the death of my father. It has the tools I needed when I was twenty-one and my younger brother killed himself after a long painful battle with schizophrenia. The tools I had when, many years later, I lost my third child a few days after birth. In A Guide Through Grief I share those tools with you in the hope that they will bring you comfort and make your journey through the pain of loss easier. With gentleness and love.

‘Part-memoir, part-guidebook, this will serve as a comforting ally to those whose lives have been turned upside-down by grief.

Dr. Warren Ward – Psychiatrist and writer

‘Just wonderful – heartfelt and wise. A soothing balm for your soul. A comforting hug in a book.’

Favel Parrett, best-selling author of Past the Shallows, When the Night Comes, and There is Still Love

“Edwina Shaw understands grief in many ways – through devastating personal experience, in her work as a yoga teacher, and through facilitating workshops that explore emotions through writing. Brimming with wisdom, comfort and practical suggestions, ‘A Guide to Grief’ is a tender and compassionate handbook for negotiating loss.”

Dr. Fiona Robertson, medical practitioner and writer.

It’s available now on Amazon as an ebook to read for free, or at a small price so that it can reach those who really need it. Just waiting a day or so for it to be available as a Print on Demand edition for the US and UK markets.

And here in Australia I’m printing some of my own. In Australia you can buy print copies directly from me or if you’re in Brisbane from AVID READER BOOKSTORE.

Please help my little book shine in the Amazon firmament by downloading or buying, you don’t even have to read it – though of course I hope you will.

In other news my story “Pinwheels” has been awarded one of The National Association of Loss and Grief awards in the 8th Annual Grieve Project Anthology – also available now.

And if you’d like a taste of my writing on grief, here’s my essay “The Gifts of Grief” published online at UPLIFT CONNECT.

A Guide Through Grief is the first book I’ve released through my own publishing house – Red Backed Wren Publishing. I hope there will be many more. I love those little birds – joy lives in their tiny beating hearts.

With love and gratitude,

Edwina xx