Entering the Healing Ground: The Wild Edge of Sorrow Official Workbook--Reflections, Rituals, and Meditations for Grief and Renewal

What does it look like to bring grief into the body, the breath, and the page — to move from reading about sorrow to actually working with it? Entering the Healing Ground is the official companion workbook to The Wild Edge of Sorrow, offering structured reflections, rituals, and meditations to help readers move through each of the five gates of grief with intention and care.

Weller has designed this workbook for both individual use and group settings — for grief circles, therapy groups, rites-of-passage programs, and anyone who wants to go deeper with the practices introduced in the original work. Each section invites a slowing down, a turning inward, and a tending to what has been left unmourned.

For readers drawn to contemplative literature, Entering the Healing Ground is a rare thing: a workbook that doesn't rush healing but instead creates sacred space for it — for therapists and clients alike, for grief groups, and for solitary seekers doing the quiet work of integration.

Explore more on grief and healing: Begin with The Wild Edge of Sorrow for the foundational framework this workbook accompanies, or explore Anchored by Deb Dana for body-based practices that support nervous system healing alongside grief work.

What You'll Discover

• Reflections and writing prompts for each of the five gates of grief
• Rituals and ceremonies for moving sorrow through the body
• Meditations drawn from depth psychology and indigenous wisdom traditions
• Guidance for facilitating grief circles and group work
• A compassionate, unhurried pace that honors the depth of loss

Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist whose work bridges depth psychology, indigenous wisdom, and the restoration of communal grief practices. He has trained thousands of healers and is one of the most trusted voices in contemporary grief work.

Perfect for: Readers of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, therapists and grief counselors, rites-of-passage facilitators, grief circle participants, those in therapy or recovery, anyone integrating loss at their own pace, and readers drawn to somatic and ritual-based healing practices.

Paperback edition. Francis Weller's guided companion to the sacred work of grief — rituals, reflections, and meditations for renewal.