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Finding Hope: Embracing Grief After Trauma
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After a life-altering stroke, the journey from despair to renewal is rarely linear—but it is possible. In Finding Hope: Embracing Grief After Trauma, the author shares a deeply personal account of loss, transformation, and the courageous quest to reclaim life after profound change.
In this moving memoir, the reader is invited into a transformative process marked by the raw realities of grief. The author describes the experience of losing not only physical abilities but also the identity built over 50 years—a loss so deep it felt as if life had been paused. Through moments of vulnerability and self-reflection, they introduce the concept of a "bracket"—a sacred pause where the end of one life chapter meets the uncertain beginning of another.
Drawing from heartfelt conversations with a psychologist and the creation of a personalized liturgical service, the book offers a unique perspective on mourning the loss of who we once were, while celebrating the emergence of a new self. This service, which became a turning point in the author’s recovery, opened doors to new opportunities and a renewed sense of purpose, including speaking engagements, media interviews, and the inspiration to write this very book.
Finding Hope: Embracing Grief After Trauma is more than a memoir—it’s a guide for anyone facing the pain of loss and the daunting challenge of rebuilding. Whether you are struggling with trauma, loss, or the grief that follows major life changes, this book provides compassionate insights and practical tools to help you close the bracket on old wounds and step confidently into the future.
Embrace your grief. Discover hope. And begin your journey toward becoming the best version of yourself.
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From despair to hope
What to Remember When Waking ~ by David Whyte
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans.
What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.
You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents
you were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged.
Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be
what urgency calls you to your one love?
What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?
Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
In the trees beyond the house?
In the life you can imagine for yourself?
In the open and lovely white page on the writing desk?
-- David Whyte
