We help you navigate grief through creative expression and movement.

Touching Two Worlds invites you to process pain through story, movement, and collective experience. Discover the award-winning memoir, original circus shows, and workshops that help heartaches find their way through the body and mind to land gracefully in life.

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Award-Winning Book

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Mental Health Professionals Trained

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THE BOOK

A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss

In Touching Two Worlds, a trauma psychologist explores the inner workings of her own grief—and leaves a kind of hand-drawn map for those rebuilding hope in the aftermath of loss.

An invitation to honor loss, carry love forward, and reimagine what it means to live fully after heartbreak.

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CIRQUE SHOW

Healing through circus arts.

Grief is heavy. Sometimes, it feels impossible to put into words. Here, you don’t have to explain it—you just have to show up.



There’s something powerful about watching bodies move through grief— in the motions of others, we are invited to feel for ourselves. This show is an invitation to feel. To see your own journey reflected in movement. To unclench, to soften, to make space for what’s inside. To honestly express.



To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Sherry partners with circus professional Lynn Lynn to create an original show exploring grief, healing, and resilience through circus arts. We are thrilled to announce a new show premiering in May 2025.

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Movement as a Healing Practice

WORKSHOPS

Tell the story of your grief—in words, in motion, in connection.

In Touching Two Worlds, and in her TEDx talk, Dr. Sherry talks about joining the circus to ease the intensity of her traumatic grief. She launched Circus for the Brokenhearted to help others heal through movement. Workshops are offered a few times per year and are open to people of all levels and abilities.

Touching Two Worlds was born from loss. It became a movement of aliveness.

After losing her father to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months, psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling joined the circus and found healing through artistic movement. Touching Two Worlds is her invitation to you—to grieve and to celebrate aliveness.

You don’t have to move on

Grief is not brokenness—it’s love, still reaching, looking for expression.

At Touching Two Worlds, we make space for both loss and aliveness. We let our joys and our hurts shape our movements and our creative expression, and believe that our bodies hold what words cannot.

Heartache becomes the fuel for the art that we make.

 FAQs

  • Touching Two Worlds is a book, a circus performance, and a series of workshops exploring grief, healing, and resilience. Created by psychologist and performer Dr. Sherry Walling, it offers a unique approach to navigating loss—one that moves beyond traditional grief narratives. Through storytelling, movement, and creative expression, Touching Two Worlds helps people process grief in ways that feel natural, embodied, and deeply personal.

  • Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist specializing in grief, trauma, and mental health, particularly for high-performing individuals. After losing both her father and brother within six months, she turned to aerial arts and circus performance as a way to process her own grief. Her approach blends psychology with movement, embodied healing, and psychedelic-assisted therapy offering an alternative to conventional talk therapy. She is the author of Touching Two Worlds and an advocate for innovative, expressive approaches to emotional well-being.

  • Unlike traditional grief books or support groups, Touching Two Worlds goes beyond words. It recognizes that grief lives in the body, not just the mind. Through a memoir that speaks honestly about loss, a circus show that gives grief a physical form, and workshops that help people move through their emotions, it offers an immersive, non-traditional way to heal. It is not about “moving on”—it’s about integrating loss and aliveness in a way that feels real and personal.

  • You can purchase Touching Two Worlds online through Amazon, major bookstores, and independent booksellers. Upcoming events, including circus performances, workshops, and live discussions, are listed on our website. You can also sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on new opportunities to connect.

  • Grief is not just emotional—it’s physical. It can make you feel heavy, disconnected, or stuck. Movement-based practices, like circus arts, aerial performance, and expressive workshops, give people a way to process grief beyond talking. When words fail, the body can still tell the story. Physical movement helps release stored emotions, regulate the nervous system, and create new ways of experiencing connection and relief.

  • Beyond traditional therapy and grief counseling, many people find healing through movement, art, ritual, nature, breathwork, and community experiences. Touching Two Worlds embraces embodied healing, which can include expressive arts, physical movement, and immersive storytelling. Other alternative approaches include meditation, psychedelic-assisted therapy, journaling, sound healing, and body-based trauma work—all of which help process loss in ways that go beyond words.

  • The best way to stay connected is by signing up for our newsletter on the Touching Two Worlds website. You can also follow @dr.sherrywalling on social media for updates on upcoming shows, book events, and workshops.

  • The book and workshops are designed for adults and young adults processing grief, though mature teens may also find them helpful. The circus show is family-friendly, and all ages are welcome. Families attending with children may benefit from this helpful guide: How to Talk to Kids About Mental Health.