Grief is a Sneaky Bitch at Elliott Bay Book Company

Name: Grief is a Sneaky Bitch at Elliott Bay Book Company
Start: 2024-06-26T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Elliott Bay Book Company

Schedule

Wed Jun 26 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle, WA

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss
Presented by Elliott Bay Book Company
Wednesday. June 26, 2024 | 7:00 pm
1521 10th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122
Event Details
Elliott Bay Book Company hosts author Lisa Keefauver in-store with guest Steph Jagger for a book signing and discussion.
ABOUT THE BOOK
When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we're living in a grief illiterate world. In her work as a therapist, and in her search for help in the wake of her own loss, Keefauver began to see how the misguided stories we consume about grief lead to unnecessary suffering. Responding to the problematic narratives that grief is something to move on from after completing the five stages like some sort of to-do list, Keefauver became a grief activist. Through this book and her hit podcast of the same title, she creates a safe place to be inside the messiness of it all, to discover the full spectrum of grief, and to find the tools that help grievers move forward, not on. Grief is a Sneaky Bitch is a comprehensive guide—serving as both a manual full of insights and skills and more importantly, as a thoughtful companion that helps readers feel seen and held.
Keefauver shares her personal and professional wisdom alongside the lessons she's learned from clinicians, authors, poets, and friends. In place of rigid instructions and must-do checklists, Grief is a Sneaky Bitch invites reflection, encourages self-compassion, and explores the therapeutic power of humor with, yes, a bit of profanity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Keefauver is a social worker, grief activist, and founder of Reimagining Grief. She is an adjunct professor of loss and grief at the University of Texas at Austin, an organizational consultant, and a keynote speaker (including at TEDx). In 2019, she created the popular podcast Grief is a Sneaky Bitch.