still here

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You don't have to be okay to keep going. You don't have to be healed to still be here.

There is a version of your life that exists before the phone call - and there is everything that comes after.

Kristyl Kuhn knows that line intimately. Her mother died suddenly on Kristyl's birthday. Less than a year later came her father's terminal diagnosis, and three years after that, another goodbye. What followed wasn't the grief people talk about - the casseroles, the condolences, the visible tears. It was the part no one prepares you for: the shock that looks like functioning. The first night in a house gone quiet. The guilt that lies to you. The depression that settles in after everyone else has moved on.

Still Here is not a book about healing. It won't give you five stages, a timeline, or a path back to who you were before. That version of you doesn't exist anymore - and pretending otherwise only makes the weight heavier.

Instead, this book sits with you. In honest, unflinching, deeply personal chapters, it puts words to the parts of loss that usually go unspoken:

Why shock makes you calm when you "should" be falling apart

What to do when grief becomes depression and you can't get out of bed

The anger that has nowhere to go - and the guilt that follows it

Surviving anniversaries, birthdays, and random Tuesdays

What to say to people who say all the wrong things (scripts included)

Learning to carry it - because you don't move on, you move with it

Woven throughout are gentle, practical survival tools: a bad-day list of tiny actions, the 10-minute rule, and simple words for asking for help when you don't know how.

Written for anyone grieving the loss of a parent - or any loss that split life into before and after - Still Here is the companion for the days when getting through the day is the whole accomplishment.

If all you did today was survive - that is enough.