A grief toolkit for the months after everyone else moves on

It takes years to learn how to live through their birthday without them. And it's still hard to explain, even to the people you love.

The Touching Two Worlds Healing Bundle is what to do in the meantime. Dr. Sherry Walling's IPPY Gold and Nautilus Silver-winning grief ebook, an interactive workbook for months 3 through 24+, eight body practices, three guided audio meditations, a grief glossary, and a Supporter's Guide you can forward to friends. All digital, instant access. $27 once.

Dr. Sherry Walling, clinical psychologist
Dr. Sherry Walling, PhD Clinical psychologist. Research fellowships at Yale School of Medicine and the National Center for PTSD. Lost her father, then her younger brother six months later. Then wrote what she wished existed.
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If You're Reading This

You're somewhere on a landscape nobody warned you about.

Maybe it's been three weeks. Maybe three years. Maybe you keep meeting people who clearly think you should be "back to normal" by now, and you're starting to wonder if there's something wrong with the way you're grieving.

There isn't. Grief isn't a stage you pass through. It's a place you live in now. Some days the landscape is recognizable. Some days you wake up and don't know where you are, and the people who used to bring casseroles have all gone home, and the book you read in month one ended at page 300 and your grief kept going.

We never arrive on the other side. It is a landscape we live in now. But I'm doing my best to leave you sketches so that you'll have an idea for how to find your way in this new land. Sherry

And maybe what you've lost isn't a person at all. Loss isn't always about death. It can be the end of a relationship, the death of a dream, or the quiet collapse of a version of yourself you can't get back. The bundle works for that too. Grief is grief. Naming it as such is the first thing.

This bundle is the map she drew. Six tools for the place you didn't choose to live in. A book for the long story. A workbook for the long road. A movement guide for what grief stores in your body. Audio for the 3 AM hours. A glossary for the moments you don't have words. And a guide for the people who keep saying "let me know if you need anything."

Dr. Sherry Walling at home, contemplative. The everyday landscape of grief
What's In The Bundle

Six tools for the same landscape.

One product reaches one part of grief. Together, these six reach the parts no single book or course or therapy session can. The body, the 3 AM hour, the second year, the people walking with you.

1

Touching Two Worlds

The IPPY Gold and Nautilus Silver-winning grief book by Dr. Sherry Walling. Personal essays woven with neuroscience and clinical insight.

For the long, slow read.
2

Grief Work Workbook

Structured prompts for months 3 through 24+. Grief inventory, personal timeline, and "Section B: The Long Road."

For when you need to do something with it.
3

The Body Knows

8 movement practices, 5 to 10 minutes each, no equipment. For grief moments when reading or sitting still won't reach what's happening in your body.

For what grief stores in your body.
4

3 Guided Meditations

Three voice-guided recordings narrated by Sherry. "Landing" grounds you with 5-4-3-2-1 senses and the image of yourself as an old tree, roots deeper than the grief is wide. "Body and Breath" walks a head-to-toe scan of where grief actually lives, the dread in your stomach, the ache behind your breastbone, the unsaid words in your throat. "Holding Both" places you at the edge of the ocean, one foot in grief, one foot in the life still being lived.

For 3 AM. For the bad waves.
5

How to Show Up

A guide for friends and family who said "let me know if you need anything" and don't know what to do next. Made to be forwarded.

For the people walking with you.
6

The Grief Glossary

Names for what you're feeling. Anticipatory grief. Disenfranchised grief. Grief bursts. Anniversary reactions. The "new normal" myth.

For the moments you don't have words.
The Truth About Grief Books

You probably read one early on. Maybe it helped. Maybe it didn't. Either way, you closed it and grief kept going. There was no chapter for "month eight, when nobody remembers it's the anniversary." No section for "the day you laugh and feel guilty for laughing." No prompt for "when grief shows up in your body and won't move."

The Touching Two Worlds Healing Bundle covers it all. The workbook continues into months 3, 6, 12, and 24+. The movement guide reaches what reading can't. The audio is there for the hours when you can't read at all.

Six tools for one landscape. Built to be returned to, not finished.

Meet The Person Who Drew The Map

She did research fellowships at Yale and the National Center for PTSD. Then her dad died. Then her brother. Six months apart.

Dr. Sherry Walling. Clinical psychologist, author, and the person who built this bundle from the floor of her own grief
"I didn't write this from a textbook. I wrote it from the floor."

Dr. Sherry Walling, PhD

Clinical Psychologist · Author · Circus Aerialist

As a therapist, Sherry knew all the "right" things to say to help people through grief. Then she lost her father to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months of each other. She had the unfortunate chance to encounter both kinds of mourning up close, the slow unfolding terminal illness and the sudden, stigmatized death by suicide. She realized we're getting grief all wrong.

Sherry holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Fuller School of Psychology, plus master's degrees in psychology and theology. She completed research fellowships at Yale University School of Medicine and the National Center for PTSD (affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine), then spent years working with veterans and trauma survivors before her own life cracked open.

In early 2017, her father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died the following November, at 65. Six months later, six months to the day, she lost her younger brother Dave. He was 33. She had spent two decades helping other people walk through grief. Then she had to walk through both kinds of it herself, at the same time, while raising two young kids.

What she discovered is that her clinical training had real limits when grief lived in her body and woke her up at 3 AM. So she started writing. She joined the circus (literally; she trains as an aerialist). She built the tools she wished existed. Touching Two Worlds is the book that came out of it. The bundle is everything else.

Education
PhD Clinical Psychology · Master's in Psychology & Theology
Research
Yale School of Medicine · National Center for PTSD
Published
Sounds True · Journal of Traumatic Stress
Speaking
TEDx · UCSF · Boston University Medical
As Featured In
The New York Times · Forbes · Fortune · NBC · PBS · Entrepreneur
Praise For Touching Two Worlds

From psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and grief authorities.

The book at the heart of this bundle has been endorsed by clinicians at Mayo Clinic, Boston University School of Medicine, MAPS, NAMI Minnesota, and beyond.

"As a 15-year-old boy, I lost my mother to cancer. Now that I am a Psychiatrist and my life's work is to help people with their trauma, this is the book I will be offering. Her gentle suggestions on how to move with grief and trauma are evidence based and readily accessible. I wish I had read this when I was 15."
Ranji Varghese, MD
Instructor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic · Asst. Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota
"I cried, I commiserated, I laughed, and I mourned. I will draw on Dr. Walling's pearls of wisdom to help my clients, myself, and my loved ones. Touching Two Worlds will have a prominent place on my bookshelf with many dog-eared pages to return to."
Katherine M. Iverson, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
"Touching Two Worlds is a tremendous resource for anyone struggling to find their footing in the aftermath of loss. Dr. Sherry finds a balance between practical and mystical, and her willingness to share the details of her own healing journey is an act of courage and generosity."
Michael Mithoefer, MD
Senior Medical Director, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation
"Touching Two Worlds is an honest examination of the grief in losing a father and a brother within a short time frame, and the differences when one dies due to cancer and the other to a substance use disorder and mental illness. Anyone who has lost someone to suicide will find a connection to this book."
Sue Abderholden
Executive Director, NAMI Minnesota
"Touching Two Worlds communicates our mysterious human solidarity in pain, the intimate twins of grief and love. This book has bravery on every page."
Jerry White
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate · Professor of Practice, University of Virginia
"While grief is universal, few of us know how to do it well. In Touching Two Worlds, Dr. Walling offers practical, compassionate wisdom to help grieving people (and those that love them) feel less alone in the darkness."
Jordan Harbinger
Lawyer · Host of The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Touching Two Worlds Healing Bundle

All six resources are digital. Instant access after purchase. Yours to keep forever. No subscription, no expiration, no upsells. The workbook saves your progress locally so you can pick up where you left off, six months from now or six years.

The Touching Two Worlds Healing Bundle on laptop, tablet, and phone. Book, workbook, body knows guide, audio meditations, supporter guide, and grief glossary
Less Than A Single Therapy Copay

Everything for $27.

  • Touching Two Worlds. The IPPY Gold + Nautilus Silver-winning ebook (EPUB + PDF)
  • The Body Knows. 8-exercise movement guide
  • Grief Work Companion Workbook
  • 3 Guided Audio Meditations
  • Bonus: How to Show Up. Supporter's Guide
  • Bonus: The Grief Glossary
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What You Get: The Four Core Pieces

Built to be returned to, not finished.

The book gives you the story. The other three give you somewhere to put your hands when the story isn't enough.

Touching Two Worlds. The IPPY Gold and Nautilus Silver-winning grief book by Dr. Sherry Walling, photographed in close detail
Core 01 · The Ebook

Touching Two Worlds

A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss

52 short essay-chapters across four parts: Two Griefs, Cancer, Suicide, and Life After Death. Personal narrative woven with neuroscience and clinical insight. The way grief actually feels when nobody is watching.

"A ballpoint pen burst in the washing machine. Every single item of clothing had ink on it. Death is like that. It leaves a stain on everything in life." From Chapter 7, "Pen in the Wash"
  • Take-a-moment reflection exercises at the end of each chapter
  • Talking to kids about death, including suicide
  • How to cry in public (and on airplanes)
  • Marking grief anniversaries. A chapter most books skip
  • Movement and embodiment as grief medicine
Nautilus Silver IPPY Gold Foreword INDIES Goodreads 4.41 Instant download · EPUB + PDF
A woman seated in silhouette against a warm amber sunset sky, body still and contemplative. The embodied quiet The Body Knows movement guide is built around.
Core 02 · The Body

The Body Knows

8 movement exercises for what grief stores in your body

Drawn from Sherry's circus training and clinical practice. Each one is built around a specific grief moment, not a generic mindfulness pitch. Five to ten minutes. No equipment. Each comes with the neuroscience of why it works (vagal nerve activation, somatic release, nervous system regulation).

  • Grounding Walk. For the foggy, untethered days
  • Chest Release. For the days grief feels physical
  • Shake It Out. For the days you can't sit still
  • The Vocal Sigh. For the moments words won't come out
  • Grief Stretches. For the days that feel heavy
  • Pendulation. For sudden grief waves
  • Sleep Preparation Sequence. For the nights you can't sleep
  • Anniversary Ritual. For the dates you're dreading
A Play Audit page from the Grief Work Companion Workbook. Three slider questions about avoidance, obligation, and body disconnection feed into a Your Play Audit score of 67 out of 100, followed by a Find Your Way Back grid with six lanes: Moving, Making, Connecting, Learning, Competing, Exploring.
Core 03 · The Long Road

Grief Work Companion Workbook

Structured prompts for months 3, 6, 12, and 24+

The part that keeps going when the book ends. Meaning-reconstruction writing prompts (research shows these outperform freeform journaling). A grief inventory, a personal grief timeline, a "what I need right now" decision tree, and progress checkpoints so you can see where you've been even on bad days. The workbook saves your answers locally so you can pick it up six months from now.

  • Section A: The First Months. Anchor exercises for the early fog
  • Section B: The Long Road. Months 3 through 24+, the part most resources skip
  • Anniversary planning sheets for the dates you're dreading
  • Persistent checklists with progress bars (private to your device)
  • Decision tree: "what kind of help do I actually need right now?"
A woman speaking onstage in warm theatrical lighting, gesturing with both hands as she shapes a thought aloud. The voice work behind the Three Guided Audio Meditations.
Core 04 · 3 AM

Three Guided Audio Meditations

Built for the hours when reading is impossible

Voice-guided meditations for acute grief moments. The 3 AM wake-ups, the sudden grief waves at the grocery store, the days when brain fog makes the workbook feel like calculus. Each is built around a specific moment, not a generic mindfulness pitch.

Landing full length 6 min
A grounding meditation for when grief hits without warning
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Body and Breath full length 10 min
A head-to-toe body scan that names where grief actually lives, with breath given to each place. Stomach, chest, throat, jaw.
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Holding Both full length 8 min
Sitting with grief and gratitude at the same time, the book's central practice
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Free Bonuses Included Today

Two more tools. For what's outside your own head.

Grief is private. The two pieces almost nobody builds for it are: a guide for the people walking with you, and a vocabulary for the things you're feeling. These are both included.

A friend sits beside a grieving woman on a couch, hand resting gently on her shoulder. The grieving woman is looking down with hands clasped in her lap, soft daylight from a window behind them. The kind of quiet showing-up the Supporter's Guide teaches.
Free Bonus 01

How to Show Up. A Supporter's Guide

The guide you wish someone had handed your friends at the funeral. What NOT to say (and why those phrases hurt). What actually helps, with specific scripts. A whole section on month-three drop-off, when the casseroles stop and grief is just getting loud. Printable "What I Need Right Now" cards the griever can hand to anyone who asks.

Made to be forwarded. Send it to your sister. Your boss. The people who keep saying "let me know if you need anything" and then disappearing. It tells them what to do.

Standalone value: $19. Yours free
The Grief Glossary product page. Header reads 'The Grief Glossary · Names for What You're Feeling,' followed by a 'Most of what you're going through already has a name' intro and category filter pills (All 15, Types of Grief, Grief Responses, Social Experiences, Physical). Two entry cards visible: Anticipatory Grief and Ambiguous Loss, each with definition, validation quote, and a 'Try this:' tip.
Free Bonus 02

The Grief Glossary

Names for things most people don't know have names. Anticipatory grief. Ambiguous loss. Disenfranchised grief. Grief bursts. Secondary losses. Anniversary reactions. The "new normal" myth. Each entry includes a description, a validation statement, and one practical thing to do about it.

Built for the 3 AM moments when you need to read "this is a documented experience" and feel less alone. Lives on your phone. Open it whenever you need it.

Standalone value: $15. Yours free
Less Than A Single Therapy Copay

Everything for $27.

  • Touching Two Worlds. The IPPY Gold + Nautilus Silver-winning ebook (EPUB + PDF)
  • The Body Knows. 8-exercise movement guide
  • Grief Work Companion Workbook
  • 3 Guided Audio Meditations
  • Bonus: How to Show Up. Supporter's Guide
  • Bonus: The Grief Glossary
Today: $27
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Maybe you're thinking…

"My loss was years ago. Is this still for me?"

Yes. And probably more than if it were last week. The workbook's "Long Road" section is built for month 12, year 2, year 5. Many readers find the bundle more useful at year two than they would have at week two. Year-2 grief is the part most resources skip.

"I already read a grief book. Why this?"

Most grief books end when you close them. This is six tools that work together. Book for the story, workbook for the work, body for what reading can't reach, audio for 3 AM, glossary for the words, supporter guide for everyone else.

"Is this a replacement for therapy?"

No. Sherry is a clinical psychologist who strongly supports therapy. This is what fills the other 167 hours of your week, the months therapy is six weeks out, and the gap between what therapy charges and what you can afford right now.

60 Day

Open every file. Use every meditation. Then decide.

If the bundle doesn't feel right for where you are, email us within 60 days for a full refund. No hoops. No guilt. No questions about whether you "really tried." You're going through enough already.

Real Reviews of Touching Two Worlds

"If you are grieving anything, this is a must-read."

Verified ★★★★★ Amazon reviews from real readers of the book at the heart of this bundle.

★★★★★

"Raw, honest, vulnerable. A must read."

"If you are grieving anything, this is a must-read. Sherry Walling tackles (the often taboo in polite conversation) topics of grief, cancer, and suicide with raw honesty and well-placed humor that makes grief a little less lonely. Be prepared to cry and laugh and feel comforted all at once."
J. Larson Jones
Verified Amazon review
★★★★★

"A compelling book on loss, grief, and hope."

"I simply could not put it down. This book is such a gift to the world. There are so many helpful ideas and recommendations in each chapter. There are wonderful experiences at the end of each chapter for readers to actually try. As a bereavement trauma specialist and also a grief survivor, I strongly recommend it."
Sherry Cormier
Bereavement trauma specialist · Verified Amazon review
★★★★★

"Heartfelt and tender."

"I listened to this book on Audible over the summer and loved it so much I decided I needed the physical copy as well. I have since listened to it a second time. I highly recommend this book to everyone, whether you are in the midst of grief, you love someone who is grieving, or you are just a tender soul who cares for the stories of others."
Hether W.
Verified Amazon review
★★★★★

"Sherry magically brings life to the process of grief."

"I felt my heart being torn apart and put back together as Sherry somehow brought life to death. She opened a new context for my own grief at the vast loss I've experienced already and somehow, in opening herself to the world, held the space for me to process it in a way that left me reconnected to this wonderful life I have today."
Jeff
Verified Amazon review
★★★★★

"You can FEEL her care."

"When I listen to Sherry speak, I feel safe and seen in my experience. She is someone who isn't just trained to support people through loss, but someone who has LIVED through her own. You can feel the depths of her empathy and understanding in the way this piece of art was written. Essential reading for all human beings."
Raj
Verified Amazon review
★★★★★

"Relatable and thought provoking."

"Sherry Walling draws the reader in for a close look at the process of grief through her personal journey. As one who has been on a similar journey with a parent, this book has helped me to identify and deal with a grief I had not fully processed. Thank you for your real, raw and relatable look at grief and for the 'take a moment' sections that help one to process their own journey."
Maria Stockstill
Verified Amazon review · July 2022

Questions

Is this useful if my loss was years ago? +

Yes. Grief doesn't follow a timeline, and neither does this bundle. The workbook's "Long Road" section is built specifically for people at 12 months, 24 months, and beyond. Several Body Knows exercises (Anniversary Ritual, Pendulation) target late-stage grief waves. Many readers find the bundle more useful at year two than they would have at week two. Once the shock wears off, the real processing begins.

What format is everything in? +

Everything is digital and accessible instantly after purchase. The book is a standard ebook (EPUB + PDF). The workbook, movement guide, supporter guide, and glossary are interactive HTML files that open in any browser on phone, tablet, or laptop. The audio meditations are MP3 files. The workbook saves your answers and progress locally so you can return to it months or years later.

Can I share the supporter guide with my family and friends? +

Please do. That's exactly what it's for. How to Show Up was designed to be forwarded. Printed, texted, emailed to anyone who has ever said "let me know if you need anything." It includes specific scripts, printable cards, and a section on the three-month drop-off. Share it with as many people as you want.

Is this a replacement for therapy? +

No, and it doesn't pretend to be. Sherry is a clinical psychologist who strongly supports therapy. This bundle is a companion for the other 167 hours of the week when you're not in a session, the months when you can't get an appointment, and the cost gap between what therapy charges and what you can afford right now. It works alongside professional support, not instead of it.

What if I'm grieving a different kind of loss. Divorce, miscarriage, a friendship? +

The book is rooted in death-loss (Sherry's father and brother), but the Body Knows exercises, the Grief Glossary, the meditations, and the workbook prompts apply to any grief you can name as grief. The glossary explicitly covers ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, and secondary losses. Categories most grief resources don't acknowledge.

I'm buying this for someone else. Will that work? +

Yes. Many people buy this for a sibling, parent, or friend in the early months of loss. We'll send the access details to the email you provide at checkout. Forward them to the recipient with a personal note, or use the gift option in the checkout flow. The supporter guide is included as a bonus, which is also helpful for you as the person showing up for them.

A Note From Sherry

Thank you, in advance, for accompanying me.

I didn't particularly want to write this book, or build any of these tools. As a clinical psychologist, I was already practiced at helping people walk through grief. I didn't want this level of personal expertise. No one does.

But here we are. Bound by grief. Co-opted into the least desirable club in which all humans will eventually find themselves. My experience is specific. Yours is yours. But much of what's in this bundle is not unique to my family, and most of what makes grief survivable is not unique either.

I hope these words and exercises and prompts will function for you the way they did for me. Like a messy, hand-drawn map. Truth be told, we never arrive on the other side. It's a landscape we live in now. But I'm doing my best to leave you sketches so that you'll have an idea for how to find your way in this new land.

"There is no precise GPS for getting through grief. I'm doing my best to leave you sketches."

From my broken heart to yours.

Sherry
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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