About Emily J. Pearson

Emily reads the research on grief and explains it in plain words. She writes the Whenever You’re Ready grief journals.

What she does is read. The actual studies, the original sources, the research behind the advice everyone repeats. Then she writes down what holds up, in words a tired person can take in.

Everything here follows two rules: nothing that blames the grieving person, and nothing we can't back up. No "everything happens for a reason". No stages you're failing to complete. No timeline you're behind on.

She's also the author of the Whenever You're Ready grief journals, guided journals built around what the research on writing and grief actually found. You can read about the first one here.