Speaking Grief

Making space for grief, at your own pace

Book cover of Speaking Grief by Laurie Hole, a gentle guide offering reflections and journal prompts to support people navigating grief and loss.

Speaking Grief is a gentle guide to navigating loss in early adulthood. It offers calm, compassionate support through reflections, relatable insights, and guided journal prompts to help you process your grief at your own pace.

Whether you’re grieving the death of someone close to you, or struggling with the ripple effects of loss in other areas of life, this book creates space to slow down and reconnect with yourself. It covers themes such as anger, anxiety, identity, disconnection, fear, and more — offering words and prompts that meet you where you are, without pressure to “move on” or “get over it”.

Written with warmth and understanding, Speaking Grief invites you to meet your loss with gentleness, self-compassion, and a sense of quiet permission to heal in your own time.

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  • ☆☆☆☆☆

    This book is absolutely perfect for young grievers. It is easy to understand and not too complex. It truly made me feel less alone in my grief journey, it makes you feel so so heard when navigating a world that is so lonely and isolating. This book truly made me feel like I wasn't alone in how I felt, that even negative/conflicting emotions were normal, that all ways to grieve are normal. This book makes you feel NORMAL!! An essential in early grief and also to dive in and out of when needed too.

    ~ Amazon Customer ~

  • ☆☆☆☆☆

    This is a really powerful read in a really accessible format. Reading this book helped me understand my own grief process in a way that felt gentle and supportive. The exercises throughout were useful for journaling and reflecting. Overall a lovely read and I will certainly be recommending this to others.

    ~ Amazon Customer ~

  • ☆☆☆☆☆

    This book is life changing! Laurie does the most beautiful job of deconstructing and normalising so many confusing and heartbreaking elements of grief that no one often prepares you for.

    This book has been my absolute go-to, not only for figuring out my own feelings but in being able to better support those I love who are also grieving, too!

    ~ Amazon Customer ~

  • ☆☆☆☆☆

    I thought this was a fabulous read. It's written with such warmth and sensitivity - clearly by someone who has navigated what they're writing about - and they could have been speaking to me and many of my experiences. I've found it very moving to read, and helpful in unexpected ways; I will be recommending it to others. Well done Laurie, this is an amazing and rather lovely book.

    ~ Amazon Customer ~