(Sounds True, 2024)
Grievers and those trying to support them ask the same questions over and over because fundamental grief education has yet to permeate mainstream culture. CAN ANYONE TELL ME? offers hopeful lessons on loss informed by rigorous neuroscience and biophysical science, but communicated to readers in manageable, understandable bites and profound real-world stories. Along the way, Meghan also provides readers with concrete tools and exercises that she uses with her patients and have been adapted from an array of treatment modalities to help grievers understand and manage their trauma.
Meghan Riordan Jarvis is a trauma-informed psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss with more than twenty years of experience in the field. She is trained in a wide variety of treatment modalities including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Imago, PACT, EMDR, IFS, and many others. She runs a thriving private practice based in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD, that has helped hundreds of clients.
A writer, trainer, and sought-after consultant, Meghan hosts the popular podcast “Grief is My Side Hustle.” Meghan also offers a free grief writing program called “grief mates” on her FB and IG pages, hosts frequent IG Lives with educational guests, and has been a guest on dozens of podcasts. With Hope Edelman, Meghan is the co-founder of the Grief Leadership Coalition consisting of twenty-five leaders in the grief and loss field who share a vision of providing grief-informed resources aimed at changing the culture of grief and loss. She is also the author of the memoir THE END OF THE HOUR (Zibby Books). For more on Meghan please visit meghanriordanjarvis.com.