It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand - Megan Devine
"It's OK That You're Not OK," written in reaction to society's treatment of grieving as something that needs to be repaired and eliminated from our lives as soon as possible, presents Megan Devine's method of dealing with devastating loss or life-shattering tragedies. She claims that grieving is just love in its most wild and agonizing form, and that it is a natural and rational reaction to loss.
Megan, who has experienced loss as a therapist and seen her partner's accidental drowning, rejects the idea of returning to a "normal" life. Instead, she substitutes it with a compromise of living a healthy life while grieving.
This book, which has been featured in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, HuffPost, and NPR's Radio Times, contains good counsel, wisdom, anecdotes, research, life suggestions, and creative and mindfulness-based activities for coping with and living with loss.
Pros:
- honest and open
- relatable and accessible writing style
Cons:
- excludes certain losses (such as parents)
- may feel repetitive to some readers
