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As a hospice nurse, I help families let go of someone they love. I tell them it isn’t failure. It doesn’t mean they love their person any less. Yet when it came to my own marriage, I couldn’t seem to give myself permission to leave.
My patients’ stories and my own meet in a question so many of us struggle to answer: How do we let go when we know it’s time, but still don’t know how?
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Available January 12, 2027
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Early Praise for How To Let Go
“How to Let Go came into my life at the perfect time. As someone who was navigating a life change that absolutely devastated me, I found Hadley’s book gave me the permission that I needed to acknowledge the heartbreak, have gratitude for the good things, and find meaning in starting a new life that belonged to me. This is the book for anyone grieving, whether it’s the loss of someone they love or the loss of a future they thought they were sure of.”
“Hadley Vlahos knows something most of us spend our lives trying not to learn: There are things we cannot save by loving them harder. How to Let Go is a beautiful, brave, profoundly human book about death, marriage, grief, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to stay. Deeply comforting, deeply confronting, and completely unforgettable!”
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The In-Between presents a vulnerable, moving memoir about the unraveling of her marriage and her evolving journey to find beauty in life's endings and beginnings.
As a hospice nurse, Hadley Vlahos helps people navigate grief and major life transitions. After the success of her first book, The In-Between, Vlahos’s professional career was on the rise, and from the outside, everything looked picture-perfect. But behind the scenes, her personal life was falling apart, and it was now her turn to confront the loss and upheaval that she spent her days counseling her patients through.
In How to Let Go, Vlahos recounts her journey of rebuilding her life and coming into her own after her fairytale marriage turned out to be not what it seemed. With grace and vulnerability, Vlahos reveals what it took to walk away from her relationship and the myriad ways in which her patients inspired her to put herself back together. She draws lessons from the challenges people encounter with a loved one in hospice, like taking advantage of the time you have left while simultaneously dealing with anticipatory grief, and how—or even whether—to say goodbye to an estranged parent. Along the way, she comes to see that letting go is not a failure but an act of profound courage.
Like her beloved first memoir, How to Let Go is a beautiful reminder that every moment—even a difficult and complicated one—is an opportunity: Until we take our final breath, we always have the ability to connect, to grow, and to begin again.