When There's No Amen: Learning to Grieve the Loss of a Child and Faith

By Kayla Brooks

For anyone grieving without faith, this is the book that says: you're not alone.

When There's No Amen is a grief memoir for anyone who has lost more than a loved one but those who have also lost the faith that once held them together.

After the devastating loss of her son through stillbirth, the author found herself not only grieving his absence but also unraveling the spiritual framework she had been taught to lean on. The prayers, the platitudes, the well-meaning verses that no longer comforted. Instead, they left her more alone.

With raw honesty and tender courage, she shares what it means to sit in grief when faith has gone silent. Each chapter unfolds in deeply personal stories from pretending in pews, to navigating the clich s of others, to raising a daughter in a world of belief while no longer holding it herself. Woven throughout are reflections that invite readers to pause, question, and reimagine what hope and love can look like without a script.

This book is for:

Those who have stopped believing but still ache for language around loss.

The friends and family who want to support them but don't know how.

Believers willing to listen without fixing, and love without conditions.

When There's No Amen is not a story of finding your way back to God. It is a story of finding your way back to yourself, to your voice, and to a love that stays even when the prayers don't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMYSRQ1J
• ISBN13: 9798298630856
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"