Dr. Robert Neimeyer has invited me to present for the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition In lieu of an in-person book launch for “Writing the Self in Bereavement”, I will be doing several of these talks over the next little while. And maybe a Zoom “virtual launch” at some point!   Here is the …

Updated: January, 2023 – My book on grief can be ordered with this 20% discount code – FLE22 or follow the link below “Part tribute, part love story, part memoir, part investigation into our most nascent drive to confront death on its own terms, Reinekke Lengelle’s Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, …

My book can be preordered from Routledge via this link: https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Self-in-Bereavement-A-Story-of-Love-Spousal-Loss-and-Resilience/Lengelle/p/book/9780367643348 “As human beings, we seek a life story we can make sense of, and that can make sense of us.  In this autoethnography of loss, as lucid as it is captivating, Reinekke Lengelle not only reveals but also reflects candidly on her grief over …

Book cover image, “Widow maker” by Darrin Hartman My book will come out in hardcover, softcover and in electronic format by early 2021! It will be published with Routledge Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience By Reinekke Lengelle Writing the self in bereavement is balm for readers experiencing …

The “Widow Project” manuscript was the working title for the book described below that will be published with Routledge in 2021. Writing the Self in Bereavement: A story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience by Reinekke Lengelle BOOK SUMMARY To lose loved ones is our common fate. Yet death is something we frequently (and perhaps wisely) …

Writing the self in bereavement  At the beginning of December 2019, two weeks after Frans’s death, I started writing what I called The Widow Project. This project helped me to explore how writing for healing in grief and bereavement could be done in practical terms. This work became a full-length book which is now published with …

“Poets might get a bad rap when it comes to career success, but their way of thinking and playing is exactly the kind of creativity that is useful for developing a career story that can set someone on a useful course.” In this free webinar, Reinekke Lengelle will introduce you to Career Writing, co-developed with …