Charlie Bynar
Goodreads Author
Born
in Sun Valley, Idaho, The United States
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Influences
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February 2022
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/charliebynar
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Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
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Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side:
"I am in awe of this courageous brilliant woman. Through the Darkness is an incredibly beautiful tribute to Charlie’s beloved son Isaac, who tragically passed at age 16. Her journey through the
impossible tragedy of child loss is inspirational, to say" Read more of this review » |
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Suzan Kavusi's review
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Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side:
"This book is one of the most compassionate and validating works I’ve encountered on grief—especially the unbearable grief of losing a child. The author speaks with such tenderness and honesty that I often felt as though someone was finally giving wor"
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Through the Darkness has received the following awards.
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Winner, Death & Dying category. 2025 IAN Book of the Year A ...more " |
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“When you go into the heart—not the body’s heart, but the heart deep within your soul—you’ll accept that things truly are as they should be, and you are not alone.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“People intersect many crossroads in their lifetime, and the crossroad your mom faces now will force her to either hold on to her preconceived view that death is the end or reevaluate it. If she chooses to hold on to her views, she will likely take her own life. But Charlie has one thing working to her advantage—love is greater than pain and darkness combined. Since her love for you is unwavering, hopefully, it will give her the strength she needs to reevaluate her views of death and obtain the wisdom she’s seeking—that death is a transition, not an end. If she succeeds, Charlie will know that nothing can truly separate the two of you! She’ll emerge from the darkness, able to find a renewed purpose in life.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“Many things—especially the nonphysical—can’t be measured or understood through science. Take the unseen forces of guilt and shame. You can’t measure them, but they can drive people to destruction. The same is true about love. You can’t put your finger on it, but it can cause people to move mountains.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“Nothing can divide us, not even death!”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“You know, the ego is very insecure. . . . It uses judgment as armor to protect itself. The ego judges others to shield itself from its own insecurities, which are based on fear. The ego, needing to be special, feeds on constant approval and needs enemies in order to be superior—it raises itself up by putting others down. . . . In other words, by judging others,” Ethel explained, gathering the ingredients for piecrust. “People have a never-ending fear-based dialogue with their egos, which is a source of much unhappiness. They’re afraid of not being good enough, being wrong, not being in control, losing their possessions, being shamed, being judged, not being smart enough, being ugly, being rejected, being destitute, being old and alone. And ultimately, they’re afraid of dying.”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“Energy is a potential—it remains dormant without time. Therefore, time is the greatest force in nature because, without time, nothing happens. And regardless of whether time is linear or nonlinear, as it is here, it doesn’t matter. The point remains the same: No matter what order you put the past, present, and future in, without time, none of it happens!”
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
― Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
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