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Launch & book signing · August 30, 2026 · National Grief Awareness Day

Grief
Etiquette

A practical guide for the grieving, their supporters, and professionals.

So many of us freeze when someone we love is grieving. This is the guide for that moment: what to say, what to avoid, and how to simply show up.

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Three books, one system.  The guide, the workbook, and the pocket guide.
The Book

Some words are not just unhelpful. They can hurt.

Grief is often met with quick fixes and well-meaning advice. But when we are hurting, what we need most is not a solution. It is presence.

Grief Etiquette is the guide no one handed you. It names the many forms grief takes, gives you the words to offer and the words to hold back, and speaks to the grieving, their supporters, and the professionals who meet loss every day.

Written by a mother who has buried two of her three sons and chosen healing over bitterness, it does not rush you. It does not look away. It meets you where you are.

Wherever you are in your grief, this book was written for you. You are not alone.

Three books, one system.

Grief Etiquette is three books, not one, meant to work together. Read on its own, or use all three as a complete set.

Grief Etiquette, the guide, front cover

The Guide

Hardback & Paperback

The heart of the system. What to say, what to avoid, and how to show up, including the grief our world too often overlooks.

$29.99 HB / $27.99 PB
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Grief Etiquette Workbook front cover

The Companion Workbook

Paperback

For going deeper, on your own or in a group. Reflection prompts and room to do the work grief asks of us.

$19.99
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Grief Etiquette Pocket Guide front cover

The Pocket Guide

Paperback

Small enough to carry, for the moment you need the right words fast. Made for the front lines of loss.

$8.99
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Who it is for: the newly grieving, the friends and family who want to help but fear getting it wrong, and the professionals who walk with the bereaved every day.
Tyra K. Little, author of Grief Etiquette
About the Author

Tyra K. Little

Author · Veteran · Survivor Advocate

Tyra K. Little writes from the place where lived experience meets practice. A mother who has outlived two of her three sons and chosen healing over bitterness, she has turned profound personal loss into a life of service and a body of work devoted to how we grieve and how we show up for one another.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Both Sides of the Coin Initiative, a nonprofit grounded in the conviction that healing must reach every side of loss, and the Founder and Chief Strategist of Living Proof with Tyra, a trauma-informed strategy firm. A Certified Trauma-Informed Practitioner who holds a Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practices from Columbia College and a B.S. in Legal Studies from South University, she brings both discipline and compassion to the work.

Tyra is also an Everytown Survivor Fellow and a United States military veteran with nearly 21 years of combined Navy and Air Force service. Her commitment to service continues in public office, where she serves the people of Richland County, South Carolina, as Councilwoman.

Faith anchors everything she does. A proud grandmother, she writes to give grief the dignity it deserves.

Every page comes from a place I have actually stood. This is not theory for me. It is lived.

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“My grace is sufficient for thee.” · 2 Corinthians 12:9

A monthly letter on grief, presence, and healing. One quiet cup, once a month, for the grieving and the people who love them.

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