Written by Chloe Zelkha, Katherine Evering-Rowe and Noah Cochran & illustrated by Sol Weiss.

BOOKS WILL SHIP BY NOVEMBER 2023

About the Book

Being With Grief is a new, creative workbook for young adults (and beyond) who’ve experienced significant loss. Part coloring book, part journal, and part ritual guide, this 67 page workbook offers a low-stakes, self-directed way to engage with loss on your own terms.

Our culture has a hard time being with grief. Talking about grief. Acknowledging grief. Knowing what to say to people who are grieving. You may know what it’s like to live with grief, and you may know what it feels like to be surrounded by people who don’t “get it." We do, too. And we decided to make a resource that we wished existed all along–for ourselves, for our communities, and for all those learning to navigate the wilderness of grief.

Grieving in a death-denying culture is often lonely, and a lot of people, even well-meaning ones, attempt to censor, direct, or fix us. This book does not. It offers a series of openings for whatever work the reader wants to do. It is an invitation and an offering given with full permission to feel all the ways.

We hope it offers a sense of company to those who feel they’re going it alone, a place to rage and cry and wonder, and a portal into considering the vast and wild landscape of grief as it reveals itself.

Size: 5.75”x8.75”

Who is this for?

This workbook was made with young adults who've experienced the death of parents, siblings, partners, and dear friends particularly in mind — but we invite folks of all ages with all different kinds of grief to give it a shot.

Everyone's grief, relationships, and story are different, so no one workbook can meet everyone in everything; some parts of this book will resonate for one person, and be completely irrelevant for another (or even piss them off!). Our advice in using it is to go with what works, and discard the rest.

About the Authors:

Noah Cochran (Co-Author) found their way to the grief world following the unexpected deaths of their parents as a teenager. Now trained as a licensed clinical social worker and working as a therapist at Smith College, Noah believes in the healing power of relationships and community. They’ve teamed up with the collaborators of this book to launch the COVID Grief Network and to facilitate weekend grief retreats, and they also host a both-parent-loss affinity table with The Dinner Party. They currently call Western Massachusetts home, where they live with their two cats, a jungle of houseplants, and many books.

Katherine Evering-Rowe (Co-Author) started doing grief work after a less typical loss: her father’s life- and personality-altering traumatic brain injury. She has helped run grief groups at the Bryn Mawr College Counseling Service and for the COVID Grief Network, which she helped launch alongside Noah, Chloe, and a big team of generous, brilliant people. Katherine works as a licensed clinical social worker in private practice and is passionate about supporting folks moving through grief of all kinds. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her perfect cat, and feels lucky to live within walking distance of many dear friends, Chloe included.

Chloe Zelkha (Co-Author) got interested in grief after a season of personal loss: her partner’s car accident, and her dad’s sudden death. She’s loved serving as a chaplain at organizations like UCSF Mission Bay Hospital, the COVID Grief Network (which she started with the authors of this booklet, and other friends), and Urban Adamah, where she leads weekend grief retreats. She currently lives across the street from Katherine in Philly, where she is studying toward rabbinic ordination.

Sol Weiss (Illustrator) is a visual artist and cultural organizer raised on Lisjan Ohlone lands in the Bay Area, California. They recently left their position as Co-Director for Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish community farm project where they managed operations and and held programs and workshops for anti-colonial Jewish land connection, healing and liberation.  Today Sol works as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer, representing musicians, organizers and world builders. Sol believes in the profound importance of grieving, and is honored to get to illustrate this special book.