Pre-orders for Grief is a Hurricane are now open. Reserve your copy today.
Pre-orders for Grief is a Hurricane are now open. Reserve your copy today.
By Robin A. Gillette
Poems of Empowerment in the Face of Loss
About the Book
Grief Is a Hurricane maps the journey of loss not as a tidy set of stages, but as a living, breathing storm with a ferocious landfall, a moment of grace in the eye, and the return of the back wall. Through this cycle, readers discover wisdom, resilience, and ultimately, a way to carry their loved ones forward.
– Catherine McIntyre, retired social worker
The Journey
Phase 1
Loss arrives suddenly and overwhelmingly like a hurricane making landfall. It knocks you off your feet. Nothing could have prepared you for the force of it.
Phase 2
A moment of stillness arrives. You find your footing. Joy visits unexpectedly. In the quiet center there is breathing room, grace, and a gathering of strength.
Phase 3
Grief returns through muscle memory: a birthday, a song, a smell. But now you carry wisdom. You know this storm. And you know, that you can navigate it.
Who This Book Is For
No matter your faith, background, or the nature of your loss, this book welcomes you. It was written to reach people exactly where they are in the storm.
Praise for the Book
This thoughtfully crated book will be the one you turn to when you need some comfort and validation that your grief is yours and is okay to feel at any time – not on the clock of what well-meaning people may expect.
Through a reflection of her personal journey, Robin’s poetry offers a mix of relatable sorrow, heartbreak, memories, humor, and most important, love.
This book will stay on my ‘active’ shelf and will serve as a comforting reminder that I am not alone when the waves of grief arrive in my heart.
Reading Grief is a Hurricane takes us on a restorative journey through the rawness and pain, transcendent moments, integration points of grief. You will visit stages of survival, mending, and revival. The healing power of nature is present throughout. What a gift this book is to anyone experiencing loss and the soup of emotions that come with it.
As this collection deftly navigates a hurricane of loss, the speaker stands in the evolving vantage points of authority, healing, and self-cultivation. She invites the reader with her to a new kind of acceptance, a living alongside grief, and the kind of homecoming that no one wants yet one that comes for us all. This book is an unforgettable field guide through the storms of devastation back to the quenching thirst of hope.
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As this collection deftly navigates a hurricane of loss, the speaker stands in the evolving vantage points of authority, healing, and self-cultivation. She invites the reader with her to a new kind of acceptance, a living alongside grief, and the kind of homecoming that no one wants yet one that comes for us all. This book is an unforgettable field guide through the storms of devastation back to the quenching thirst of hope.
– Sage Cohen
author of Writing the Life Poetic
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Reading Grief is a Hurricane takes us on a restorative journey through the rawness and pain, transcendent moments, integration points of grief. You will visit stages of survival, mending, and revival. The healing power of nature is present throughout. What a gift this book is to anyone experiencing loss and the soup of emotions that come with it.
– Lisa Tener
Author of the multiple award-winning books
Begin when you are ready
These poems were written for you. Whether you are deep in the storm, standing in the eye, or helping someone you love find their footing.
