Winner of the 2011 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. In MOSSLIGHT, Kimberley Pittman-Schulz invites readers on a walking meditation, a crooked path through loss and longing where solace shimmers in the shadows, rooted in the rhythms of the natural world. Each poem is a small epiphany offered by unlikely mentors-decaying redwood logs and indifferent ravens, "the golden gel" of a banana slug and a blur of wet bees, tiny fish caught in a shoe, a dog's black face leaning from a truck window, even "eight rusty ants dragging a dead wasp through the grass" that challenge us with, "Who are you, anyway?" Like a lost explorer-part-naturalist, part-Buddhist-the voice in this collection leads the reader deep into the present moment, "stark and lush," reminding us that while "alone each foot burns/into cold layers" there is a larger interconnectedness, as "even in wet snow falling, /the wren sings.

Mosslight

Literature & Fiction

Pittman-Schulz, Kimberley

Poetry

FutureCycle Press

Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living with Loss Without Losing Yourself

Loss comes along.First it breaks your heart. Then it stays.How do you live with loss without losing yourself?Death happens. It touches those you love and changes your world in unimagined ways. While loss comes along with you for life, grief doesn't have to be forever. This book is about learning to live with loss and with joy every day. Through storytelling and simple practices, you'll take a break from grief, find new ways to hold on to the one you love, and design your life-support-system for living with loss. How? You'll harness the power of:?	Telling your Loss Story & Setting a Feeling Intention ?	Implementing Tiny-Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Rituals ?	Building Joy Habits to Become the Next Version of You?	Creating Your Emotional Flak Jacket by Shifting MindsetsGrieving Us is an upbeat field guide for living your one-and-only, heart-broken-and-still-beautiful life.

Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living With Loss Without Losing Yourself

Parenting & Relationships

Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

What happens to you when someone you love dies? Who was that person or animal companion in your life? 
Loss comes along. First it breaks your heart, then it stays. 
How do you live with loss without losing yourself? 
This book is about learning to live with loss and with joy every day. While loss comes along with you for life, grief doesn’t have to be forever.\nThrough storytelling and simple practices, you’ll take a break from grief, find new ways to hold on to the one you love, and design your life-support system for living with loss.\nIn Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living With Loss Without Losing Yourself, Kimberley Pittman-Schulz shares how she discovered the power of Tiny-Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Rituals to turn her two-year struggle with unrelenting sorrow after the death of her mother into a life of deeper meaning and joy. While writing the book, she also explored the realities of anticipatory grief as she helped her husband navigate advanced heart failure in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nUltimately Kimberley offers those living with loss a fresh perspective that: 
• explores grieving mindfully, including grief healing concepts based on experience & science, 
• pushes back on societal biases that value some losses as more grief-worthy than others, 
• challenges the idea that you should ‘bounce back’ from loss, 
• encourages curiosity and reconnecting to what she calls “your animal body” to cultivate well-being, 
• offers the missing “how-to” instructions for navigating a new world in which you get to go on living but have to do it without the person or animal companion that you love.\nKimberley speaks to you from a place of empathetic wisdom, with a poet’s sensibility and an understanding that human beings need to laugh and sing even when they’re sad.\nHer life shaped by loss, beginning with the death of her two sisters in a house fire as a toddler, Kimberley went on to spend 25+ years as a philanthropic and end-of-life planning advisor. She’s worked with incredibly diverse people looking for meaning after the loss of a spouse, partner, child, parent, grandparent, sibling, friend, or beloved animal to illness, accident, suicide, or traumatic death.\nGrieving Us is an upbeat field guide for living your one-and-only, heart-broken-and-still-beautiful life.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

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