Grieftypes Your Grief, Your Way

A new book by Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds, Ph.D.

Grieftypes Your Grief, Your Way.

There is no single right way to grieve. Like a fingerprint, your grief is entirely your own — and when you understand your type, healing finally begins to make sense.

  • 12Grief Types
  • 1Unique You
  • ∞Ways to Heal
Grieftypes book by Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds — front and back cover

About The Book

Mistypes of grief keep us stuck. Grieftypes names twelve distinct ways people mourn — so you can stop asking “am I grieving right?” and start healing in your own way.

your grief, your way
About the Book

Twelve Prints of the Same Heart

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About The Book

Mistypes of grief keep us stuck. Grieftypes names twelve distinct ways people mourn — so you can stop asking “am I grieving right?” and start healing in your own way.

your grief, your way

Grieftypes gently maps the landscape of loss. Instead of judging your grief against someone else’s, this book helps you recognize your own pattern — and gives you language for it.

Written with warmth and clinical insight, each chapter explores one of the grief types Dr. Dodds has encountered across years of practice — how it feels from the inside, how it is often misunderstood, and what genuinely helps.

Misty Scratching Loyal Practical Extrovert Introverted Thinking Judger Perceiver Senser Feeler Intuiter
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Recognize your type

Identify the unique shape of your mourning.

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Release the guilt

Stop measuring your grief against others’.

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Heal your way

Practical, compassionate steps for your pattern.

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About the Author

Meet Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds

LP Ph.D.

Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds

Author · Grief Educator

“Your grief, your way.”

Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds has spent her career sitting with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives — and listening without a checklist.

Again and again she met grievers who worried they were “doing it wrong”: the practical one who seemed too calm, the loyal one who couldn’t put the photos away, the misty one who cried at everything and everywhere. Those conversations became Grieftypes — a compassionate framework that names twelve genuine ways of mourning.

Her hope is simple: that every griever who opens this book finds their own print on its pages — and permission to heal in the way that is truly theirs.

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Testimonials

Words From Gentle Readers

★★★★★
I finally understood why I grieved nothing like my sister. This book gave me permission to mourn as myself — and to stop apologizing for it.
MR Margaret R.Reader
★★★★★
After losing my husband, everyone told me how I should feel. Dr. Dodds told me how I do feel — and that made all the difference.
EK Elena K.Reader
★★★★★
Our book club read it in one sitting. Everyone found their type — and then found their mother's, and finally understood her.
PS Priya S.Book Club Host
★★★★★
I have sat with hundreds of grievers. This is the first book that honors the quiet, practical mourners as much as the visible ones.
MW Marcus W.Hospice Chaplain
★★★★★
Compassionate, clear, and quietly profound. The chapter on practical grievers described me so exactly that I cried — finally.
DS David S.Reader
★★★★★
I bought it for a friend after her loss and ended up reading it myself. Gentle, honest, and never once preachy.
SM Sarah M.Reader
★★★★★
I am the loyal griever she writes about — the one who kept the voicemails. Reading my own chapter felt like being seen for the first time.
TB Tom B.Reader
★★★★★
Every support group should hand this out. It ends the silent competition of whose grief looks correct.
NH Nadia H.Support Group Leader
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