The Loss Prescription
A compassionate, psychologically grounded guide to grief, loss, and healing. Published by HarperCollins · Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell
If you are reading this, you are probably carrying something heavy.
Maybe you have lost someone you love. Maybe the loss is harder to name than that - a relationship, a future you had planned, a version of yourself that quietly disappeared. Maybe you have been told, in so many words, that you should be over it by now.
You are not over it. And there is nothing wrong with you.
The Loss Prescription was written for you.
About the book:
Drawing on 25 years of clinical practice, counselling psychology, existential insight, and the neuroscience of grief, The Loss Prescription offers something the wellbeing industry rarely provides: honest, humane, psychologically rigorous guidance for meeting loss without pressure, judgement, or artificial timelines.
This is not a book about the five stages of grief. It does not offer a checklist for recovery or a promise that things will be fine if you follow the right steps.
It offers something more valuable: a framework for understanding what is happening inside you when you grieve - psychologically, emotionally, and in the body - and how healing unfolds when experience is allowed to be met rather than managed.
The Loss Prescription recognises grief not as a problem to be solved, but as an expression of love, meaning, and attachment. And it invites you into a different relationship with your own pain - one rooted in presence, compassion, and emotional truth.
Widely read by individuals navigating personal loss as well as professionals working in health, mental health, education, and caring roles.
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Coming next- The Stranger Within:
My forthcoming book explores what becomes possible when we stop running from loss and begin to meet the person it has been quietly making us. A book about freedom, identity, and the deeper self that grief reveals. Join our newsletter to be notified of publication.
Also by Dr Chloe:
If you found The Loss Prescription helpful and are navigating divorce, see my specialist guides: Healing Through Divorce and Supporting Your Children Through Divorce available in the Therapeutic Guides section.
The Stranger Within: How We Lost Ourselves and the Way Back Home
Forthcoming
Something has gone wrong, and it is not what we think.
The people who find their way to my consulting room are not, for the most part, in crisis. They are high-functioning, educated, self-aware. They have done the work - the mindfulness, the journalling, the therapy. And they are still, quietly and persistently, suffering.
What they suffer from does not yet have a name in the popular conversation. But it has a felt quality that is immediately, uncomfortably recognisable: the experience of performing one's own life from a slight but permanent distance. Of being present at every meeting, every dinner, every school run - and somehow not quite there.
This is not depression. It is not burnout, though it often accompanies both. It is something subtler and, in some ways, more insidious: self-estrangement. The slow, cumulative process by which a person loses contact with their own inner life.
The Stranger Within is the book about that condition - written by a clinician who has spent 25 years sitting with exactly these people, and who has developed a grounded, practical, usable model for the way back.
Be among the first to know when The Stranger Within publishes.