How can you begin rebuilding your life when the sudden loss of someone you love shatters the happiness and contentment you have created together?
This is the dilemma author Ruthann Reim McCaffree faced when her husband Terry fell from a ladder and died, suddenly, at the age of 61.
One moment they were a happily married couple of 40 years facing a normal, hectic, work day. The next moment Ruthann found herself faced with the task of making arrangements for her husband’s memorial service, all while dealing with intense feelings of sorrow and despair.
As a means of coping with the aftermath of losing Terry, Ruthann began keeping a record of the events following his death. This journal became “Suddenly Single: A guide for Rediscovering Life After Tragic Loss”, where Ruthann shares her personal journey following the devastating shock of losing her life partner. Ruthann has shaped this into a touching memoir and tribute, which also serves as an inspirational guide to help those who are experiencing a similar loss in their own lives.
Provided within the context of Ruthann’s story are her “Ten Survival Steps” serving as a thoughtful framework to help others work through many of the overwhelming aspects of grief. She offers tips for answering the most basic of questions (“How are you?”), as well as how to learn to laugh again. All of this comes with one goal in mind: helping others restructure their lives after losing a loved one.
Woven through the narrative that is both candid and poignant, “Suddenly Single” is a life-affirming gift for those who are ready to embrace the first hopeful steps of healing and recovery from the pain of loss.
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From Amazon.com:
This book is such a gem, I can’t recommend it enough! It is so much more than the story of one woman’s heartbreaking loss. It is the portrait of a courageous, wise and irrepressible spirit that has charted the path from the deep pit of despair back to solid ground. Her tale is engaging and honest, told with a poignant and genuinely moving authenticity. Her storytelling will make you cry and laugh and capture your heart. McCaffree is not afraid to take her readers with her down an incredibly personal road, and while the path is often painful, he words always firmly facing toward hope and light.
The insights and revelations that she shares are not only moving, they are profoundly inspirational. McCaffree candidly describes the moment that she “chose life”, that in the midst of the most severe body-blow to her life she consciously decided that there is still happiness and joy to be found in this world. In that moment she reveals the buoyancy of her spirit that is the true gold of her book. Any reader who has suffered such a grievous loss will be wrestling with the painful question of whether life will ever get better, of whether the pain will ever end. McCaffree takes your hand and tells you that it will be OK, that she was able to walk through the fire and survive, and that you will be able too. This is just such a message and story that those in the midst of deep grief are hungering for, yet her story
applies to grief of all shades. Loss is an inescapable part of the human experience, we are all grieving to greater or lesser degrees for all sorts of things. Most anyone will find some nuggets of wisdom to apply to their lives. Her book is ultimately a bold and powerful affirmation that life, even in its darkest and
most difficult moments, is always an adventure worth living. Highly recommended!!