Gentle books for the hardest seasons — and for calling in the life you want.
Straight from Lou Lou Press, the small independent press that makes them. No middleman: when you buy here, the book comes to you from us.
Cora Bellamy
Gentle, body-first workbooks for sensitive people moving through life's hardest seasons — loss, caring, and the body.
Mother, the Monster
For the adult daughters and sons of a mother who was cold, or cruel, or frightening, or simply never quite there behind her eyes.
Childless Not by Choice
For the woman who wanted children and did not get to have them — on whatever road brought her here.
When Your Partner Falls Ill
This book is for the person nobody asks.
Fear of Recurrence
For anyone who finished cancer treatment and now lives braced for it to come back.
While You're Still Here
For the part nobody explains: the part of you that is quietly breaking while you hold everyone else up.
Who Will Hold My Hand
For the woman growing older without children who lies awake at 3 a.m. with the questions no one lets her say aloud.
When Caregiving Ends
It is for you if the caring has ended and nobody around you seems to understand why you are not relieved, or not sad, or not better yet.
Denied the Grandchildren
They're still here — and you're grieving them anyway.
The Money Fear After He's Gone
A warm, secular, body-first companion for the widow suddenly facing the money alone.
The Body No One Will Name
For the woman in diagnostic limbo — dismissed, undiagnosed, and quietly starting to doubt herself.
The Smallest Goodbye
A gentle, body-first workbook for grieving a miscarriage or early pregnancy loss.
Loving Someone Through Depression
This gentle, body-first workbook is for you — the well partner — and it is not about fixing him.
The Quiet Estrangement
For the parent grieving an adult child who has gone no-contact — or whose contact flickers.
The Empty Collar
Written for anyone who loved an animal like family — a dog, a cat, a companion of any kind.
Still Here, After the Stroke
Everyone measures your recovery. Nobody measures your grief.
It Was Real to Me
Your marriage was not a lie. And you are allowed to grieve it.
More Than a Bad Gut Day
For the person living with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis — newly diagnosed and terrified, or years in and worn thin.
The Invisible Stepmother
A soft place to land for the stepmum no one sees.
The Flare and the Quiet
A gentle, body-first companion for the woman living with lupus — or any unpredictable autoimmune or invisible illness.
The Worry That Follows Them
A gentle, body-first workbook for the mother whose fear has fixed on her child's health.
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