A Place for Grief
Companionship in Difficult Times
There are many ways a heart can break, and many forms of grief that accompany us through a lifetime.
A Place for Grief is a free collection of eleven reflections on loss, longing, and the quieter forms of sorrow that are not always easy to name. Alongside the grief of losing someone we love, there is also grief for the lives we imagined, the parts of ourselves we left behind, and the experiences that never quite came into being.
These pages are offered as a little companionship, without a method to follow or any particular way you’re supposed to feel.
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“Still, something that has remained alone for a very long time begins to have a little company.”
Matt Licata, from the Introduction
Inside
- iA Grief Without a Story
- iiWhat We Left Behind to Belong
- iiiPerhaps in the End, All Therapy Is Grief Therapy
- ivWhat Could Not Be Lived
- vAnger Work Is Grief Work
- viWhat Cannot Be Repaired
- viiThe Life We Thought We’d Have
- viiiThe Blue Regions
- ixGrief Is a Form of Earth
- xKneeling Beside the Ruins
- xiWhen Hope Does Not Come
“And sometimes, in the middle of an otherwise ordinary day, we find ourselves missing a life we never actually lived.”
From “The Life We Thought We’d Have”
We can let the tears come without interrogating them. We can allow grief to move through the body without requiring it to tell us its story.
From “A Grief Without a Story”
About the Author
Matt Licata, PhD, is a psychotherapist, author, and teacher whose work explores the meeting place of psychological healing, contemplative spirituality, and the inner life. For more than 35 years, he has accompanied people through experiences of grief, loss, emotional vulnerability, and the often-unexpected ways we come to know ourselves more deeply.
His writing draws from depth psychology, contemplative practice, and the ordinary experiences of love, relationship, and being human. At the heart of his work is an invitation to make room for the parts of ourselves and our lives that have been difficult to understand, express, or welcome.
He is the author of A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020) and The Path Is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You (Wandering Yogi Press, 2017). His forthcoming book, The Unfinished Work of Love, is expected in 2027.
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