Her Personal Journey

What is the Issue the Reader is Struggling with That Will be Answered with this Book?

After never really being sick, my beloved son, Matt was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer and died in a week.

This memoir is a gut-wrenching account of a mother’s story of grief and the journeys she embarks on to find her way back after her unimaginable loss. In this poignant blend of memoir and travel, the author takes the reader on her gratifying expeditions by chronicling her road to healing and recovery. Her stories are filled with love, light, laughter, and living life to the fullest in the midst of her grief. She offers a compassionate message after each chapter.

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What is the Problem to be Solved?

The problem to be solved (managed) is living with grief while finding hope. This encounter with grief is essential for learning to live with the indescribable loss. The goal is not to eliminate the grief, but to rediscover ways that give grieving souls a reason to wake up every morning and see that life still matters.

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What is the Solution the Author is Proposing?

The solution proposed is a blend of journaling and  journeying to a create path forward of healing. The author recalls stories of Matt, retracing his steps in life. The author will take the reader on her own personal journey. Through her thoughtful perspective, she listens to what her son is telling her now. After each journey, the author thoughtfully provides compassionate-inspired messages at the end of each chapter.

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What are the Benefits the Reader will Receive from this Book?

The author has written a memoir about the untimely death of her son, a relentless mother (and nurse) who harnesses her own resilience to overcome grief after her tragic loss. Without being too prescriptive and since each person’s grief journey is unique, the reader will benefit from the author’s heartfelt journey and each compassionate message.

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How Does the Author Have the Authority to be Solving the Problem?

The author is a PhD prepared emergency nurse practitioner with several decades of clinical and teaching experience. She has been an invited speaker to several countries on nursing topics (including grief and loss). She is uniquely qualified to write this book because she has personally experienced the heartbreaking struggles that many of her patients and their families have had to endure---the loss of a child.

These travel journeys were thoughtfully chosen to discover what she initially needed to do to survive---and now to thrive. This was her path to restorative healing. 

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Why is Now the Right Time for this Book to Come Out?

The timing is right for this book since more than half of Americans have experienced the loss of a close loved one during their lifetime.  Since my son’s death, I have been sent over 20 books on the subject of grief, loss, and healing by other bereaved parents. People are reading these types of books and are sharing them.

 

 

Who Will Want to Read this Book?

I contacted several other grieving parents. I received an outpouring of responses from family and close friends who have lost children. 

I sent out individual email queries to several colleagues. I received positive feedback that there a place for this type of book on the their shelf.

Only a handful of authors retraced their child’s steps to reframe their trajectory of grief---this book is targeted to the niche market of bereaved parents and their loved ones.