Reimagining Grief
by Kate Doerge with Sara Bliss
An inspiring guide that reimagines the stages of grief into five healing actions.
There is no way to spin grief. It's hard. It's messy. It's destabilizing. And every single one of us has to go through it.
Author and Grief Coach Kate Doerge knows this too well. Over six years, she lost her father to heart failure and her mother in a car accident five days before Christmas. She also faced the hardest challenge for any parent, losing her sixteen-year-old daughter, Penny, to complications from a rare genetic condition.
After Penny's death, Kate knew she had a choice, she could lose herself to a grief so powerful she might not come back from it—or she could find another way through. Reimagining Grief is the result of that search.
Drawing from her own experience, the latest research, and conversations with others who have faced devastating loss, Kate offers five actions that can help ground you when you feel out of control, lift you when you're depleted, and help you process the pain of loss.
In this book, you'll learn:
● Why there isn't one right way to grieve—and how to find your own path
● An approach to saying goodbye that honors both you and your loved one
● The 5 Actions Through Grief and how to use them to heal–Connect with Others, Celebrate Your Loved Ones, Be Open to the Signs, Get Moving, and Turn Pain into Purpose
● What post-traumatic growth really looks like
● How to find joy again
These actions won’t make grief vanish or disappear; everyone has to go through the difficult path that you are put on after losing someone you loved deeply. However, Reimagining Grief offers some light and healing in the midst of darkness and a different way forward.
This is the book Kate wishes she'd had. She wrote it for you.
Available for pre-order online
✨ UPCOMING EVENTs ✨
Kate Doerge in Conversation with Norah O’Donnell: Reimagining Grief
Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 6pm EST
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128
Overview
Join bestselling author and life coach Kate Doerge with Norah O’Donnell for a conversation about grief, healing, and Doerge’s new book, Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength, and Joy After Loss.
There is no way to spin grief. It’s hard. It’s messy. It’s destabilizing. And every single one of us has to go through it. Kate Doerge knows this all too well — over six years, she lost her father, her mother, and experienced the hardest challenge for any parent: losing her 16-year-old daughter to complications from a rare genetic condition. Drawing from her own experience, the latest research, and conversations with others who have faced devastating loss, in Reimagining Grief she offers a guide that can help ground you, lift you up, and use the pain of grief to grow — offering light and healing in the midst of darkness and a different way forward.
In a candid conversation with Norah O’Donnell, hear Doerge discuss her grief journey — and find out how you can make your way back to joy after loss.
Reimagining Grief @ NEW CANAAN LIBRARY
Wednesday June 17, 2026, 7:00PM
New Canaan Library
151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840
FREE
Registration is required
Overview
Join bestselling author and grief coach Kate Doerge for a conversation about grief, healing, and her new book, Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength, and Joy After Loss.
Reimagining Grief @ Bedford Playhouse
Thursday June 18, 2026, 7:00-8:30PM
Bedford Playhouse
633 Old Post Rd, Bedford, NY 10506
FREE
Registration is required
Overview
Moderated by Nancy Steiner.
Join bestselling author and grief coach Kate Doerge for a conversation about grief, healing, and her new book, Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength, and Joy After Loss.
Kate Doerge in Conversation with Laura Lynne Jackson: Reimagining Grief
Friday, June 19, 2026, 5:30PM
The Creek
1 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY
$65 per person
Includes a copy of the book
Light fare will be served
Overview
Join bestselling author and life coach Kate Doerge with Laura Lynne Jackson for a conversation about grief, healing, and Doerge’s new book, Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength, and Joy After Loss.
“For anyone walking on a path of grief they never wanted to be on, this book is full of hope and light.”
—Laura Lynne Jackson, NY Times Bestselling author of Signs, Guided, and The Light Between Us.
Laura Lynne Jackson, an international speaker, teacher, and psychic medium, is the author of the New York Times best-sellers The Light Between Us, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe, and Guided: The Secret Path to an Illuminated Life. She has been featured on Netflix’s Surviving Death, the History channel’s The UnXplained, The Goop Lab, The Today Show, Fox and Friends, Good Day New York, Telemundo, the Huffington Post, Goop.com, Oprah.com, and various other media outlets throughout the United States and abroad. Laura works with the Windbridge Research Center and serves on the board of the Forever Family Foundation and The Rhine Research Center. She is dedicated to teaching people how to embrace their own psychic and intuitive abilities.
AUTHORS Kate Doerge & SARA BLISS: Reimagining Grief
Monday, June 22, 2026, 6-7PM
Zibby's Bookshop
1113 Montana Ave, Santa Monica 90403
Free
Sara Bliss is a creative brand consultant and bestselling author who specializes in collaborating with high level founders and brands on books, content marketing and founder positioning. Sara is the Founder of Scribes & Stories a full-service story agency that helps brands and authors produce books and content.
Sara has written 14 books across genres—memoir, business, wellness, beauty, design and travel. Her books includeTake the Leap: Change Your Career, Change Your Life and Hotel Chic at Home. She is the co-author of Aspen Style with Aerin Lauder, and three bestselling books with beauty guru Bobbi Brown. Her latest book as co-author is Reimagining Grief with Kate Doerge. Sara's articles have run in the Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, and Travel & Leisure.
Reimagining Grief at HAPPY WOMEN DINNERS
With Author Natasha Gregson Wagner
Tuesday, June 23rd, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Private Home in Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
$125 registration includes a signed copy
of Reimagining Grief and dinner.
Reimagining Grief at Godmothers Gather
Wednesday, June 24th, 6:00 to 7:00 pm
Godmothers
2280 Lillie Avenue
Summerland, CA 93067
$49.87 for a ticket + book
Reimagining Grief at Penny’s Flight 4th Annual Fam jam
Saturday June 27, 2026, 5:30 - 11PM
Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY
We are so excited to share that BIG plans are
underway for the FOURTH Annual ‘Penny’s
Flight Fam Jam’ Concert being held on
June 27, 2026 at the historic Planting Fields
Arboretum! The evening will include live music
performances with Drew & Ellie Holcomb and
the Neighbors and 2 sets from Eggy, activities
for kids, food trucks, and much more.
Reimagining Grief at NORTHPORT BOOKS
Monday June 29, 2026, 7PM
Northport Books
127 Main St, Northport, NY 11768
Author Reading with Kate Doerge
Get your tickets and reserve your book below.
“Part memoir, part roadmap, Reimagining Grief is a deeply personal yet practical guide for anyone navigating the aftermath of devastating loss. Kate doesn't offer easy answers -- she gives us something far more valuable: her own story, and proof that a life can be rebuilt, not in spite of sorrow, but through it.”
— Belle Burden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“Every one of us will face grief, but how we move through it shapes everything that comes after. Reimagining Grief is a rare guide—clear, compassionate, and exceptionally useful and healing. Kate Doerge’s book shows how loss can be met with strength, connection, and even growth. A needed companion for all of us learning to live forward after loss.”
— David Magee, bestselling author of Dear William
“Kate Doerge has written the book so many of us desperately need but never knew existed. In Reimagining Grief, she doesn’t ask you to simply endure your pain, she shows you how to move through it with intention, connection, and even moments of joy.
As someone who has spent years helping people process difficult emotions, I can tell you: this is a rare and profound gift. Kate’s five actions give grieving hearts something the traditional model never did: agency. This book is a lifeline.”
— Nick Ortner, NY Times bestselling author and Co-Owner of The Tapping Solution
“With a devastating level of intimacy, Kate Doerge recounts how personal tragedy transformed into action, growth, and joy.
A unique literary marriage of memoir & battle plan, Reimagining Grief is the urgent announcement of a new emotional movement.”
— Lea Carpenter, NY Times bestselling author, Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law
"Reimagining Grief has a similar composition to a Roman Candle. A firework ignites just once, but Kate Doerge's masterful book will illuminate over and over in the hearts of every person who reads it.
Kate Doerge has written a master class on a new way to mourn; her book on grief is inspiring and joyful. You will be talking about "Reimagining Grief" at your next dinner party."
— Karen Duffy, NY Times bestselling author, actress, chaplain, and pain patient advocate
“In Reimagining Grief, Kate Doerge guides the reader onto a new path through grief, using the inspiration she found in her own grief journey as a model. This is the book she wishes she had had: it is one she has written as a gift to us all.
It teaches that we are never alone on our journey, and that the path of grief, while painful, is also filled with love and connection. For anyone walking on a path of grief they never wanted to be on, this book is full of hope and light.”