If you have ever loved so deeply that the loss of someone or something has caused you pain, this book can lead you from sorrow to gratitude, pain to acceptance, brokenness to wholeness. Unraveling Grief offers everyone the realization we can embrace life in new and empowering ways, using what grief offers us to transform how we live that not only makes a difference in the world around us, but in honoring the legacy of who or what we grieve. Have you ever been gripped by grief from the pain of loss? Or, maybe you're are in the midst of the intensity of grieving now and wonder, how will I ever find a way to live again? How do I heal my broken heart? How do I move forward, when my world is shattered? Author Meghan Smith Brooks says, "... as grief has taken up residence in who we are...I decided my only option is to make friends with grief since we hang out so much together. I realize it is a lifetime relationship whether I like it or not." There is no "getting over grief" as our culture seems to want to push us into believing, so we can get back to "normal". Meghan inspires us to realize instead, we must gently "move through it", allowing the energy to transform us as we learn to integrate grief into our "new" self, a better self, with a deeper more empowered capacity for living. Unraveling Grief: A Mother's Spiritual Journey of Healing and Discovery is a story of courage, forgiveness and gratitude, offering a deeper understanding of grief and the gifts hidden within it. Based on her own traumatic experience after the murder of her 29-year-old son, Meghan walks you through the process of unraveling grief to embracing life with a new sense of meaning - using both her personal grief journey, and her spiritual education as a minister and grief coach. She writes from her own raw emotional pain, the loss that takes, one to the depths of despair, and the very real process of finding our way back into our bodies and living again, as grief is a life altering experience no matter what the cause. Offering what she learned about the power of feeling to allow for healing, acceptance as a way forward, and the discovery of what grief has to offer us as something to enhance who we are, not diminish the life we have. Here is practical and spiritual guidance for healing and transformation from any loss of any kind. In these pages you will find multiple gifts to aid you in your recovery from loss, that include: ~ A Practical and spiritually-based approach toward wholeness after loss ~ Foundational steps that focus your intention on creating a living legacy as your new vision for life, based on finding the hidden gift within grief.