Coming Winter 2026

The Landscape of After:

A Therapist’s Memoir of Moving Through Grief

In the wake of my son Oliver’s sudden death in 2021 and my mother’s anticipated passing two years later, I offer a rare dual lens on sudden and companioned loss. If Oliver’s death dissolves my sense of future and identity, accompanying my mother through dying becomes a quiet, corrective experience—one marked by preparation, presence, and grace.

After more than thirty years as a psychotherapist, I am no longer only witnessing grief from the therapist’s chair but inhabiting it, forced to reckon with how to care for clients while navigating my own bereavement. Braiding intimate narrative with psychology, neurobiology, spirituality, art, and grief theory, this memoir traces how these deaths reshape my work, relationships, and understanding of continuing bonds. Readers are invited into the embodied realities of motherhood, caregiving, and clinical practice as I learn to release the unanswerable “why” and meet absence with reverence rather than fear. Ultimately, The Landscape of After offers a compassionate, grounded vision of grief not as a fixed state but as a living process—one that expands empathy, honors love, and creates movement even in the midst of profound loss.

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