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Still Standing: When Grief Isn't Just One Thing
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when grief doesn't arrive one at a time?
When your grandmother dies and you barely have time to breathe before your father drops dead three days after Christmas? When your mother suffers a stroke that gets missed by the very doctors who were supposed to help her? When your husband has been confined to bed for six years by a medical system that looked the other way? When the person holding it all together - the nurse, the caregiver, the strong one - finally breaks?
This book was written from inside that grief. Not from the other side of it.
Still Standing: When Grief Isn't Just One Thing is for everyone whose loss is too complicated, too layered, too ongoing for the grief books that already exist. For the caregivers who are quietly falling apart while the world asks about everyone except them. For the people who have been dismissed, delayed, and failed by the systems that were supposed to protect the ones they love. For the neurodivergent grievers whose brains loop and fixate and feel everything so deeply that moving on was never a realistic option. For the strong ones who have spent so long holding everyone else together that they have forgotten - or perhaps never learned - how to fall apart.
Written by Sara Jacques, a Registered Practical Nurse, a mother of four, a daughter, a wife, a granddaughter, and a caregiver who is still in the middle of the hardest years of her life, this book does not offer five stages or a finish line. It does not promise that grief gets easier or that time heals all wounds or that everything happens for a reason.
What it offers is something rarer than any of that.
The truth. Written honestly, from the inside, without apology or softening.
Across 24 chapters and a closing letter, Still Standing moves through anticipatory grief, sudden loss, cumulative loss, caregiver burnout, medical trauma, neurodivergent grieving, the physical toll of carrying too much for too long, and ultimately toward the possibility - not the promise, but the possibility - of rebuilding. Each chapter is drawn from real lived experience, woven together with practical reflection prompts for the chapters where readers need space to process what they are carrying.
This book is for the person who has never seen themselves in a grief book before.
For the caregiver who is grieving someone who is still alive.
For the person whose losses keep arriving before the previous ones have been processed.
For the one who reaches for the phone to call someone who is no longer there.
For the one who is still standing - not because they are okay, but because they simply haven't stopped yet.
Still standing doesn't mean okay.
It just means you haven't stopped yet.
And today, that is enough.
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