What does grief feel like? A psychotherapeutic book for young children
Written for children aged 8 and under.
Gentle and reassuring, What Does Grief Feel Like? shares the many ways people can grieve when a loved one dies and validates children’s unique grief experiences. Open-ended questions throughout the book invite children to share what they are thinking, feeling, and going through:
What did you feel after your special person died?
What happens when your grief gets too big?
What do you do in your family and community to help your grief?
It wont ever be the same: A teens guide to grief and grieving
Written for ages 11 and up.
It Won't Ever Be the Same is a validating and reassuring book that speaks directly to teens experiencing grief, providing them with tools to understand, express, and cope. This book touches upon big milestones in the grief journey, starting with new grief and continuing through the days, weeks, months, and years after.
Each chapter ends with a Give It a Try activity idea to help teens build an understanding of what they're going through. Other moments throughout invite teens to reflect on a specific question or experience, tune in to what they're feeling, or try out a new way of viewing or being in their grief.
Cover Reaveal: July 2025!
When everything changes: Parenting through loss and grief
Written for the adult reader.
When life turns upside down, When Everything Changes is here to help through life’s hardest moments. This gentle, thoughtful guide is designed for parents and caregivers navigating loss―whether it’s death, illness, or separation.
This book provides clear, manageable information―right when you need it most. She also shares practical tools to help you support yourself and your kids as you parent through grief. You don’t have to have all the answers―just a willingness to show up, listen, and heal together, one step at a time.
What People Are Saying About: It Wont Ever be the Same: A Teens Guide to Grief and Grieving
“A useful, jargon-free guidebook to navigating sorrow’s undiscovered country.”
“Leigh offers a calm look at dealing with loss that acknowledges people’s widely varying reactions”
“Leigh directly addresses grieving readers, although other readers, who might simply be seeking insight on how to support a bereaved friend or relative, will find much to appreciate here.
— Kirkus Review
“Grief is never easy, and it’s especially hard for children and teens. With decades of experience in the field, Leigh provides a visually engaging book full of extremely helpful information to help teens through grief and the grieving process. Including firsthand accounts from teens about their experiences of grief, the book is laid out in a way that makes it easy for the reader to identify moments to reflect, try something new, set intentions, or sit with their feelings. Like a therapy session, the reader is encouraged to pause reading and complete those moments so that, as they read, they have an opportunity to work through their grief. Features include easy-to-understand definitions, descriptions of how we respond to loss, a grief wheel, breathing and grounding exercises, and body-mapping exercises. The book ends with a fantastic list of activities teens can do to work through their feelings and grief, as well as a list of resources. Recommended for all library types, especially organizations that work with teens.
— Booklist
“Grief can be especially overwhelming in adolescence. Dr. Leigh provides a compassionate and carefully created roadmap to assist teens in learning how to healthfully grieve, a skill that will help them mightily throughout their lives”
— Dr. Adam Dorsay, psychologist and host of the award-winning SuperPsyched podcast
What People Are Saying About: What Does Grief Feel Like?
“This gem should be in every school. This little book should be in just about every home and workplace, too. It’s high time that we brought this necessary and fundamental human experience out of the shadows. Thank you, Dr. Leigh, for doing exactly that and just in time.”
— Dr. BJ Miller, Palliative Physician, and author of A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
“A beautiful and tender book for children that will expand the emotional capacity and depth of understanding for them and the adults who love them.
— Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, author of Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
“The ways in which children grieve are often mysterious, both to themselves and to the adults around them. This book is an incredibly valuable resource that helps kids understand the grief process and at the same time provides practical information for the adults who are supporting them on their journey of loss.”
— Claire Bidwell Smith, Author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief
