Filled with compassion and hope, this book helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love for the person who died in a different form, and like that love, it's also natural and necessary. Built on the author's Ten Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to take to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum toward healing, this second edition maintains the content of the first edition, but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new topics such as the myth of closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, unmourned grief, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more.