Love like Thunder, Grief like Rain is a collection of stories, meditations, and practices for grieving loss. Grief is a labyrinth – this book is the map. Learn how to access the emotions in your body through gentle reflection and movement exercises.

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Embrace grief in a radical way – through your inherit connection with Earth.

LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir about Laura’s experience with trauma healing, and practices that anyone can apply to their own grief. The work is an offering that teaches us how to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises.

Grief is the start of a journey to inner freedom. This book demonstrates how to metabolize trauma, make peace with life experiences, and apply the knowledge of Earth as a practical healing tool.

Reframe your relationship to grief. In “Love like Thunder, Grief like Rain,” discover the signs that life is on your side – and Earth is ready to help you heal.

Orders ship April 2026

Author and Designer: Laura Winn
Story Editor: Jacqueline Suskin
Publisher: Wood Lily Press
Distributor: Itasca Books

Early Reader Reflections

“What a calm, soothing, uplifting experience for the soul. What an expansive definition and exploration of grief and its healing power.”
- D.

“As a lover of memoirs, my favorite part was your personal stories, reflections of life experiences, and how you moved through them.”
- C.

Even if I'm not actively experiencing intense grief at the moment, the book can be a tool to help when I do in the future, or help others through it.
- A.

Laura Winn is an artist and designer in San Francisco, California. Creativity is a wellspring of her life. Many of the guided meditations in this book are adapted from leading in-person community sits across the Bay area. Laura is a loyal student of the natural world who views Earth as a blueprint for how to live our lives as a true expression of love and devotion.

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