- MDMA and Grief
- Come As You Are: Three Years Later
- Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief
- Come As You Are: Five Years Later
Grief Begins in Chaos. Meditation Helped Me Stay With It.
Grief is Not a Problem to Fix—It’s an Experience to Embrace
Loss changes everything. When someone we love dies, we are thrown into a world that no longer makes sense. Well-meaning friends offer clichés. Society expects us to “move on.” But grief isn’t something to get over—it’s something to live with, carry forward, and integrate into who we are.
In Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief, G. Scott Graham offers a raw, unfiltered, and deeply personal exploration of grief—woven with the power of meditation to provide guidance, clarity, and peace.
This is not a book about “healing.” It does not offer a step-by-step grief recovery plan. Instead, it is a collection of essays, reflections, and meditation practices that invite you to sit with your grief, honor your loss, and discover what it means to carry love forward.
A Unique Approach: Merging Meditation & Grief
Through powerful storytelling and practical meditation techniques, this book explores:
- Why Grief is a Gift – Challenging the myths of “stages” and timelines, Graham reveals how grief is an ongoing, transformative experience.
- What Not to Say to Someone Who is Grieving – A blunt, eye-opening critique of common phrases that do more harm than good.
- How to Support a Grieving Person – Beyond empty platitudes, this book teaches you how to show up, listen, and truly be there.
- Meditation for Grief – Three powerful meditation practices—Ānāpāna, Vipassanā, and Mettā—designed to help grievers cultivate presence, equanimity, and self-compassion.
- Personal Reflections & Journal Entries – A rare, unedited look at the author’s own grief journey, written over the first months of loss, providing deep validation and connection for those who feel alone in their grief.
More Than a Book—A Companion Through Grief
If you are grieving, this book will remind you that you are not alone, you are not broken, and you don’t need to be "fixed." If you want to support someone in grief, it will help you understand what real support looks like.
With honesty, wisdom, and unflinching authenticity, Graham offers a radically different way to approach grief—one that acknowledges its pain, honors its presence, and makes space for love, loss, and meditation to coexist.
Come as you are. Grieve as you need. This book will meet you there.
Heather DeFilippis on Goodreads wrote:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wow. This was a hard and yet, powerful read. For those in grief or supporting one in grief, this book shows that there is no one path in the journey. Scott shares his truth, no excuses or apologies offered. This just might be what we all need to hear about the impact of major loss in our lives or in those lives of people we love.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Raw, Honest, and Deeply Powerful
This is the first book I’ve read on grief that truly gets it. Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief is raw and compelling, written with honesty that hits hard in the best way. It doesn’t try to fix grief or package it neatly—it simply invites you to sit with it, feel it, and find your own way through.
The meditation instructions are clear and grounded, making the practices accessible even if you’re new to meditation. They don’t offer a cure—but they offer presence, and sometimes that’s everything.
This book isn’t just something you read; it’s something you feel. A must-read for anyone walking through loss, or supporting someone who is.
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