Author event! Meghan Riordan Jarvis x Julie McFadden

Zibby's Bookshop is so excited to welcome Meghan Riordan Jarvis and Julie McFadden to celebrate Meghan's new book, CAN ANYONE TELL ME?!

About the book:

From psychotherapist and leading grief expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis comes answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about grief, offering hopeful real-world lessons and practical steps for navigating loss.

If you’ve experienced the trauma of loss, you might find yourself struggling with the “whys” of grief: Why can’t I remember anything? Why can’t I sleep? Why do I feel angry and isolated? Why do I suddenly dislike my friends? Psychotherapist and grief specialist Meghan Riordan Jarvis shares a research-based resource filled with clinical insights to these questions and more, along with practical steps for navigating loss. “Though each experience is unique, we all grieve in our bodies,” says Meghan. “By recognizing grief as a kind of trauma, we better understand why our mind and body respond in sometimes perplexing ways to loss.”

In this accessible guide, Meghan provides the answers you’re seeking on the grieving process, offering profound real-world stories and hopeful lessons, informed by neuroscience and biophysical science. Whether you’re grieving or are supporting someone who’s going through loss, you’ll find valuable insight. From sorting through the physical materials left behind to honoring the experience of continuing bonds, Meghan breaks things down into manageable bites as a series of commonly asked questions on the brain, body, emotions, sense of self, relationships, timeline expectations, and how to get the right support. Here you’ll explore:

• Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the grieving process
• Explanations for what you’re going through
• Guidance, tips, support, and practice ideas for grievers and their support network
• For grievers: assessment of symptoms and history with loss
• For supporters: potential offerings for support that feel most authentic
• Ways to engage and move through the experience

Grief and loss are inevitable parts of life. What you’re going through is normal, and becoming grief-informed will help you begin to feel less confused and alone. Whether you’re currently grieving or are looking to support a loved one, here is guidance to uncover the answers to why and discover what you can do to help.

About the authors:

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW is an author, podcast host (Grief is My Side Hustle), two-time Tedx Speaker, sought after key note speaker, psychotherapist, educator, and consultant specializing in trauma and grief and loss. Meghan is trained in a host of intensive healing modalities (including IFS, EMDR, sensorimotor psychotherapy, IMAGO and integrative nutrition and Reiki). Meghan’s twenty years as a clinician combined with personal experience with grief and trauma helped to create the Grief Mentor Method (TM) an interactive therapeutic process that helps everyone from C-suite leadership teams to individual grievers to create a structured, personalized grief process. She is the founder of the Grieftastic Book fair—think your middle school book festival only sadder and sits on the board of The William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing (DC) and The New Normal (UK/LA) ). Meghan’s memoir about her personal experience with PTSD after the successive deaths of her parents titled “End of the Hour” published with Zibby Books in November 2023. Her next book “Can Anyone Tell Me Why: Essential Questions About Grief and Loss” published with Sounds True Media in October of 2024.
Julie McFadden, BSN, RN has been a nurse for 16 years. Julie is an experienced ICU, and now Hospice/Palliative Nurse.

Julie has been featured in Time magazine, Newsweek, GMA, USA today, and several other articles worldwide.

Julie has been passionate about normalizing death through education to the masses using social media and now her new NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING book, Nothing To Fear!

Her tiktok has 1.6M followers, and you can find her on all social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube) at Hospice Nurse Julie.

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