The Loss Prescription
A Soulful Guide to Healing Grief and Reclaiming Life
Grief doesn’t follow a five-step formula — and neither should your healing.
In The Loss Prescription, Dr. Chloe offers a compassionate, psychologically rich, and soul-led approach to navigating grief, loss, and emotional pain. With practical tools, heartfelt reflections, and clinical insight, this book invites readers to honour their unique journey and discover their own way forward.
▶️ Now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook
Psychological Growth After Trauma - Living with Traumatic Bereavement
Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of ‘psychological damage.’ Each chapter promotes an understanding of difficult experiences as learning opportunities that help us attune to the reality of existence and become more at ease with the truths that trigger our anxieties.
The book holds close to a phenomenological stance in which understanding emerges through experience and reflection. This is not a book that argues for a model that practitioners would be required to adopt and impose on their clients. Instead, Psychological Growth After Trauma brings insights and explorations together, allowing the reader to build their own framework for understanding.
Available in paperback & Kindle, 28th August 2025
Exhale Festival - Mental Health Festival, 4th & 5th October 2025
How to grieve living losses - Healing Heartbreak & Disappointment
Sunday 5th October 2025
11.15am (Uk time)
90mins
Not all grief is about death. Sometimes we grieve the things we’ve lost or never had, the versions of a life we imagined, the relationships that ended, or the parts of ourselves we had to let go just to exist. These are living losses: quiet, often unrecognised, but just as real and painful.
In this masterclass, grief expert Dr. Chloe will help you to name what hurts, hold space for your own experience, and begin the process of healing; without rushing, fixing, or minimising your feelings.
You will learn to allow the grief that is vital for your growth and development.
Exhale Festival - Mental Health Festival, 4th & 5th October 2025
Hyper Independence: Exploring self-reliance as a trauma response
Sunday 5th October 2025
2pm UK time
90mins
If asking for help feels like failure, if “I’ve got it” is your default even when you’re running on empty, this session is for you.
In this masterclass, psychologist and author Dr. Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell invites you to unpack the roots of hyper-independence: where it comes from, what it’s trying to protect, and how it can quietly disconnect us from the support we need.
You will explore:
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How hyper-independence can form as a response to grief, trauma, or unmet emotional needs.
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The hidden cost of always “holding it all together”.
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How to begin softening the edges of over-self-reliance, without losing your strength.
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Practical ways to create safety in asking for support.
This is not about becoming dependent, it’s about allowing interdependence. It’s about remembering that strength isn’t just in carrying everything alone, but in letting yourself be held, too.
Because you were never meant to do it all by yourself.
Dying to Live, Living to Die
Existential Academy Conference
31st October & 1st November 2025
Keynote: Navigating Loss & Embracing Life
This 45-minute interactive workshop offers a compassionate and practical exploration of grief as a natural part of life—not something to fix, but something to understand and grow through. Rooted in existential psychology and inspired by The Loss Prescription, Dr. Chloe guides participants through the emotional, physical, social, and spiritual dimensions of loss.
Ideal for individuals, therapists, wellbeing leads, and HR professionals, the session invites deep reflection and provides meaningful tools for both personal healing and supporting others.
What You’ll Gain:
– A deeper understanding of grief as a transformative process
– Tools to regulate emotions and nurture self-compassion
– Insights into how loss impacts identity, purpose, and connection
– Practical strategies from The Loss Prescription for continued growth
– Confidence to support yourself and others through times of ambiguity and pain
Expect:
A safe, reflective space combining gentle psychoeducation, therapeutic insight, and the Four Pillars of Grief Recovery to help you meet grief with courage—and life with renewed meaning.
Media Appearances
Podcast Interview for "We don't talk enough about" with Helen Marie
Grief & Loss with Dr Chloe (Episode 46)
In this deeply tender and honest conversation, I’m joined by psychologist and grief specialist Dr. Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell to explore the many layers of grief and loss. Together, we define what grief truly is — not just the sorrow we feel after the passing of a loved one, but also the heartbreak that comes with life transitions, endings, and unmet hopes.
We talk about what happens in the brain and body during grief, how it affects our mental health, and why so many of our reactions are not only normal, but deeply human. From navigating the “firsts” after a loss, to wondering how long grieving is “supposed” to take, to finding your way through the fog — we gently unpack your questions and offer reflections to help you feel less alone.
Most of all, we speak to the healing power of compassion — for yourself, for others, and for the full range of emotions that grief brings.
If you’re carrying loss, or supporting someone who is, I hope you find that this episode is a soft place to land.
Listen on your usual podcast platform.
As seen and heard in
Broadcast & Audio
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BBC Radio 2 – The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show
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BBC Radio 4 – Sideways with Matthew Syed
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BBC Local Radio (Nationwide)
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Scala Radio – Mindful Parenting Special
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CNN International
Commentary on well-being and mental health.
Press & Print Media
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The Guardian - Article on How to Grief
Led a Guardian Masterclass on “How to Grieve” during the pandemic, supporting the public through personal and collective loss. -
The Daily Telegraph
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Huffington Post
Contributed articles on mental health, emotional burnout, grief recovery, and anxiety.
Podcasts
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"I Don’t Think We Talk Enough About…" – Episode 46: Grief & Loss
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"A Guide to After Life" – Season 2, Episode 21: How to Heal Your Nervous System After Loss?
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"Stompcast" Part 1 – The 5 Stages of Grief Are a Myth
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"Stompcast" Part 2 – Why We Need to Talk About Death
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"Stompcast" Part 3 – Navigating Grief: Tips for Self‑Care and Emotional Wellbeing
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"MQ Open Mind" - Understanding Grief
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"The Trauma & Mental Health Report" - Healing Identity during grief
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"Stolen Goodbyes" – Surviving Grief – A Special Episode
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"Grief is my superpower" - Understanding Grief
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"Learning to Adult" - Grief with Professor Green
🎤 Book Dr Chloe For:
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Keynote Speaking & Corporate Talks
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Mental Health & Grief Masterclasses
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Podcast Interviews
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Panel Events
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Media Commentary & Thought Leadership
Featured Topics Include:
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The Psychology of Grief in a Fast-Paced World
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Healing After Emotional Collapse
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The Body’s Call for Change: Listening to Pain as a Message for Healing
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Workplace Grief and Compassionate Leadership
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Post-Traumatic Growth and the Power of Inner Work
For Speaking & Media Enquiries:
Please contact:
Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell
📩 cpaidoussis@me.com
For Book & Publishing Enquiries:
Eleanor Birne, Literary Agent
📍 RCW Literary Agency
📩 eleanor@rcwlitagency.com
🌐 www.rcwlitagency.com
