The Pretty Painful Grief Book: A Journal To Help You Face Your Pain and Live With Loss

"Bereavement: we're not very good at talking about it. William Hunter Howell's book is superb." - Stephen Fry An instant TikTok sensation, gaining over 2 million views in the first 30 days, The Pretty Painful Grief Book is a journal for anyone that's ready to stop pretending they're okay. There’s no escaping it. Grief sucks. It’s messy, ugly, brutal, and at times, more than we can handle. It crashes into your life, flips your world upside down, thrashes around your head and heart, and hits you with a hundred emotions you don’t know how to process. But what if the only way to heal is to stop pretending you're okay? Not your average grief journal, The Pretty Painful Grief Book doesn’t sugarcoat the reality of loss. There's no fluffy clichés. No “just stay positive” BS. And there's no pretending that moving forward is easy. Instead, this is a journal that lets you show up exactly as you are—raw, vulnerable, heartbroken, and human—so that you can confront your grief head-on; one page at a time. Inside these pages, you'll find prompts that help you unpack the chaos of loss and sit with your emotions—all of them—so that you can start healing on your own terms. Whether you're angry, sad, numb, or feeling completely overwhelmed, this journal gives you the permission you didn’t know you needed: to feel it all. Not to fix it, not to “move on,” but to be unapologetically real with yourself, no matter how ugly or uncomfortable it gets. Through the empowering act of writing, The Pretty Painful Grief Book is for all those done wearing the “I’m fine” mask. It’s a space for raw honesty, vulnerability, and the messy art of navigating your own grief. It’s an invitation to be brave, look inward, face all those feelings you’ve been too afraid to confront, and do the only thing there’s left to do: grieve. After all, you have to feel if you want to heal. "Bereavement: we're not very good at talking about it. William Hunter Howell's book is superb." - Stephen Fry