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Recognize your type
Identify the unique shape of your mourning — name the pattern behind the pain.
A new book by Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds, Ph.D.
GriefTypes Your Grief, Your Way.
There is no single right way to grieve. Like a fingerprint, your grief is entirely your own — and when you understand your type, healing finally begins to make sense.
- 12Grief Types
- 1Unique You
- ∞Ways to Heal
About the Book
Twelve Prints of the Same Heart
No two hearts mourn alike. GriefTypes names what has always been true — that your grief is as unique as a fingerprint.
GriefTypes gently maps the landscape of loss. Instead of judging your grief against someone else’s, this book helps you recognize your own pattern — and gives you language for it.
Written with warmth and clinical insight, each chapter explores one of the grief types Dr. Dodds has encountered across years of practice — how it feels from the inside, how it is often misunderstood, and what genuinely helps.
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Release the guilt
Stop measuring your grief against anyone else’s — there is no “wrong” way.
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Heal your way
Follow practical, compassionate steps shaped around your own pattern.
The Twelve Prints
Which Grief Type Is Yours?
Every chapter of the book unfolds one type — its quiet logic, its hidden ache, and the path that truly helps it heal.
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Misty
grieving in a fog that rolls in without warning
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Searching
seeking what was lost, in every face and room
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Loyal
keeping every voicemail, every shirt, every habit
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Practical
loving loudly by fixing, organizing, getting things done
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Extrovert
mourning out loud, surrounded, never in silence
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Introverted
grieving privately, deeply, one quiet room at a time
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Thinking
making sense of loss before feeling it fully
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Judger
planning the grief as carefully as everything else
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Perceiver
drifting through loss in waves with no schedule
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Senser
holding grief in the five senses — taste, touch, song
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Feeler
feeling it all, first, wholly, without apology
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Intuiter
finding meaning, symbols and signs beyond the loss
About the Author
Meet Dr. Lisa Prosser-Dodds
Praise
Words From Gentle Readers
★★★★★
I finally understood why I grieved nothing like my sister. This book gave me permission to mourn as myself — and to stop apologizing for it.
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As a counselor, I recommend GriefTypes to clients constantly. Naming the type of grief changes the entire conversation about healing.
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After losing my husband, everyone told me how I should feel. Dr. Dodds told me how I do feel — and that made all the difference.
★★★★★
Our book club read it in one sitting. Everyone found their type — and then found their mother’s, and finally understood her.
★★★★★
Clinically sound yet deeply human. The twelve-type framework now sits on my desk, dog-eared, beside my DSM.
★★★★★
I am the loyal griever she writes about — the one who kept the voicemails. Reading my own chapter felt like being seen for the first time.
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