You will be alright : A guide to navigating Grief

by Sonali Gupta

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 14, 2024

About the author

Mumbai based Sonali Gupta is one of India’s leading clinical psychotherapists with twenty years of work experience.
She works at the intersection of relationships, grief, anxiety, intimacy and compassion. She works as a consultant with Spotify India on Project Pause which focusses on mental health.

Sonali was awarded the Elle Mental Health Expert Award for 2023.
She won the Cosmopolitan Mental Health Advocate for the year 2023-2024.
Sonali writes a fortnightly column for the national daily Hindustan times called Adulting sucks and for Mint Lounge called ‘Heart of the Matter’

Her first book 'Anxiety: Overcome It and Live without Fear” was released May 2020 on by the prestigious HarperCollins. Her second book, 'You will be alright :A guide to navigating Grief published by Penguin Random House, releases on 14th October 2024


With over 1 lakh subscribers, her YouTube channel “Mental Health with Sonali’ is one of, if not the, largest for a mental health professional in India. Sonali’s work and expertise has been recognised by mainstream media. She is also deeply loved and respected within the mental health community.

Reviews

[Amit Bharti]

Grief is the sense of feeling lost, generally experience when we loss something very personal to us. It affects us and makes us vulnerable to grief. This book has greatly manifested how to acknowledge the grief and the feelings associated with it. Along with the coping mechanisms which should be done to get some relief after getting into such a condition.

✴️We always strive to educate ourselves regarding the topics related to mental health and its awareness as it lead to help us in understanding the phenomenon of happening such situations so we can meet the needs of it to cope it easily or handle it out understanding.

✴️ Sonali's works on mental issues always helps me in understanding the core issues which lead to develop these conditions. This book is really a concept to deal with unpredictable situations which we can face in our life. We never want to lose our loved ones but life is unpredictable in serving and we should be aware of mental cognition to work in the right direction so we can maintain the composer and be able to navigate problems. This book helps in recognising those issues where we feel stuck and unresolved.

✴️The book offers practice set in the form of questionare on the understanding of the topic to reflect and implement the learnings. It's a good exercise to understand the concept of implementation.

I hope you will find this book equally helpful in dealing and understanding grief and its associated emotions.

I would recommend this book to all who keep interest in reading about mental health issues and learn to address the problem by understanding them. This will also help you to become resilient in the condition of uncertainty.

[Dixita]

Grief is a strange thing to process. It sneaks up on you when you least expect it, and sometimes, it feels like there's no way out. You Will Be Alright by Sonali Gupta is a gentle guide through that maze of emotions.
The author shares her own personal experiences and those of her clients, making the book both relatable and deeply insightful. Instead of offering quick fixes or easy solutions, the book encourages readers to sit with their pain and understand that healing takes time. It reminds us that grief is different for everyone, and there’s no one right way to experience it. The book emphasizes the importance of self-care, understanding the impact grief has on both our mental and physical health, and how reaching out for support is essential.
It also touches on how finding small ways to honor a loss can help with the healing process. This isn’t a book that pressures you to move on, it’s about allowing yourself the time and space to grieve at your own pace. It offers comfort and practical advice that helps you feel less alone in the process.
Definitely a must read!