As a trend journalist, Alix Strauss has always been on the cusp of culture change. After 20 years, her newly reissued book couldn't be more relevant. It's raw and real- replete with tales of sex, death and loneliness. Think Six Feet Under meets Sex in the City.

In her highly personal, yet universally relatable book, Morris talks openly about loss, debilitating grief, relational healing and the process of writing it all down.

Mary-Frances O'Connor is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry who researches the physical and emotional responses to grief. According to O'Connor, a neuroscientist, grief is an immediate emotional state that knocks you off your feet like a wave. While grieving is a form of adaptive learning over time - a period when the brain is changing and teaching us how to adapt to the absence.

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