Especially For You - Finding a New Purpose After Catastrophic Loss

by Ken Brack

Awakened to the death of his son in a car crash, reeling in the desolate place that no parent ever expects to be, Ken Brack sets out to find how people rebuild their lives after catastrophic loss. A journalist and former high school teacher, Brack gathers the wrenching and ultimately uplifting stories of grieving families who grow through extraordinary trials by finding a new purpose.

Especially For You casts fresh light on our responses to horrific ordeals, including healing oneself by lifting others up. Driven by an arresting emotional intimacy in the author’s narrative voice, the book speaks passionately to readers trying to make sense of calamity and to our shared capacity to transform pain into something good.

In 2008, Denise and Ken Brack opened a nonprofit bereavement center that has become a leading resource for families in southern New England. Proceeds from this book will support the outreach of Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center in Kingston, Ma. (http://www.hopefloatswellness.org)

624 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2017

About the author

Ken Brack is a narrative nonfiction author moved by how people grow through catastrophic ordeals. His first book, Closer By The Mile, is the story of the country’s leading single-event athletic fundraiser, the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon for cancer research.

A native of Natick, Ma., he blogs for Psychology Today and contributes to other publications such as Grief Digest. In 2008 Ken and his wife Denise founded a nonprofit bereavement center, Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center, in Kingston, Ma. A longtime journalist in New England, Brack has a M.Ed. from Northeastern University and taught high school English in Boston.

Previously an editor at business publisher Reed Business Information, Brack also reported for The Patriot Ledger, the Kennebec Journal, and freelanced for others including the Boston Sunday Globe West Weekly, North Shore Sunday and The Phoenix’s New Paper.

His author's website is http://www.kenbrack.com, and Ken’s LinkedIn profile is: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ken-brack.... 

Hope Floats (http://www.hopefloatswellness.com) supports grieving family and children with support groups, counseling, and wellness programs. 
The Bracks created the center in memory of their son, Michael Thomas Brack, who died in 2002.