The author examines grief, belonging, life transitions, and the role of reflection and connection during challenging periods.
NEW YORK CITY, NY, September 29, 2026 — Author Ken Breniman has released Love Yourself to Death: A Guide for the Reluctant Mortal, a book exploring grief, mortality, belonging, emotional awareness, and the search for meaning during periods of personal change.
Drawing on more than two decades of professional and community experience, along with personal experiences of grief and loss, Breniman examines how people respond to uncertainty, changing relationships, shifting expectations, and questions about identity and purpose.
The book encourages readers to consider which circumstances, habits, expectations, or relationships may need reconsideration and how reflection, connection, and intentional change can influence the way people approach difficult periods of life.
Rather than presenting simple answers, Love Yourself to Death creates space for readers to examine challenging emotions and life transitions with curiosity and greater self-awareness.
The book also reflects Breniman’s broader interest in grief literacy, including how people recognize loss, develop language for grief, and communicate about difficult experiences with greater understanding and compassion.
Breniman’s creative and educational work spans nonfiction, fiction, children’s literature, filmmaking, and community education. His film Primates, Privilege & Possibility extends themes of loss and reflection into conservation, examining relationships between people, other primates, and the natural world.
Throughout Love Yourself to Death, Breniman considers how experiences of loss and change can influence relationships, priorities, and personal perspectives. The book emphasizes reflection, communication, and connection as readers consider how they understand change and meaning in their own lives.
Written for readers interested in grief literacy, mortality, personal reflection, and life transitions, the book offers a framework for considering difficult experiences without promising specific outcomes or transformation.
Love Yourself to Death: A Guide for the Reluctant Mortal is currently available on Kindle, with paperback and audiobook editions forthcoming.
About Ken Breniman
Ken Breniman, LCSW, is an author, filmmaker, licensed clinical social worker, certified yoga therapist, certified death doula, and adjunct professor of thanatology at Marian University.
His work examines grief literacy, mortality, personal reflection, community connection, and the ways individuals and communities understand experiences of loss and change.
Breniman is also the author of Subversive Acts of Humanity, A Three Body Solution, and the SEE-SOUL children’s series. Through his writing, filmmaking, professional work, and educational activities, he explores themes of grief, connection, mortality, and meaning.
For more information about Ken Breniman and his work, visit:
kenbreniman.com
Book Availability
Love Yourself to Death: A Guide for the Reluctant Mortal is available at:
amazon.com/dp/B0HK8MQPBT
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