A series of ten books
A Day in the Life of Grief
Ten books, one for each of the ten Secondary Losses. Each book is read through four threads: the Myth, the Secondary Loss, the Virtue Family, and the Life Lesson from The View From Above.
You can begin with any thread. There is no required order and nothing to finish, and you can stop and return whenever you like. What you recognize, write, or say along the way stays yours.
It works alongside Defying Grief and connects with the tools AVAIA already has.
Four threads in every book
Thread
The Myth
The Grief Myth: the belief associated with this loss that can continue influencing how a person understands, responds to, or participates in their grief.
Thread
The Secondary Loss
What a loss can quietly take alongside the one already named.
Thread
The Virtue Family
The family in the Chemistry of Virtue that this book connects to.
Thread
The Life Lesson
The lesson from The View From Above that belongs to this loss.
Any thread can be your way in. None comes first.
The books
Book One is the reference for how every book connects. All ten books, each with its companion workbook, are included with AVAIA Membership. Members can read, download and print them from each book’s page, which also shows how the book connects to AVAIA.
Book One
Loss of Meaning
Reference book, included with Membership
Book Two
Loss of Connection
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Three
Loss of Control
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Four
Loss of Dreams or Opportunities
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Five
Loss of Capacity
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Six
Loss of Identity
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Seven
Loss of Life's Vision
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Eight
Loss of Attachment
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Nine
Loss of Reality
Included with AVAIA Membership
Book Ten
Loss of Self-Trust
Included with AVAIA Membership
Use it alongside what AVAIA already offers
- Defying Grief
AVAIA's guided journey through loss, in three conversations.
- The View from Above
Ten classes, one for each loss. Each carries the life lesson for its book.
- Secondary Loss
The ten Secondary Losses.
- The Chemistry of Virtue
The ten virtue families and their elements.
- The Living LibrarySign-in
Explore entries by Secondary Loss.
- JournalSign-in
A private place to write. It is yours alone.
- WorkbookSign-in
Where your conversations and what you choose to keep gather.
- Virtue SignatureSign-in
Where you choose to keep a virtue you recognize in yourself, in your own words.
- Shared Rooms
A Guide-led space for a group. Each person's private conversation stays their own.
- Unsung Heroes
Notice and recognize virtue in other people.
- Certified Guides
Learn about the Certified AVAIA Guides who can walk through this material with you.
About conversations
AVAIA’s conversations follow one sequence in your own Journey: the Individual Awareness Profile, then Conversations Across Time, then InnerCompass. The first is free; the second and third are part of AVAIA Membership.
Reading a book here never starts or changes a conversation. To go on with a conversation you have already begun, open your Journey. A class page in The View from Above also offers to begin a private conversation; that begins a new one only if you are not already in one.
AVAIA is not therapy, counseling, medical care, legal advice, or crisis intervention. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (U.S.).