Where Did You Go?: The Surprising Truth of Life Beyond Life and the Transformative Journey to Find Those We’ve Lost

by Christina Rasmussen

An acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches readers how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife.

Christina Rasmussen has helped countless people break out of the "waiting room" of grief and rebuild their lives through both her "life reentry" program and her respected book Second Firsts. Yet, she discovered that even as her students rebuild their lives and thrive again, many are left with the same burning questions: What happens when we die? Are we capable of connecting to those who have passed on?

Christina herself wrestled with these spiritual questions after losing her thirty-five-year-old husband to cancer. As a professional grounded in science, Christina was a skeptic who shied away from the conventional mystical, supernatural, and religious descriptions of the afterlife—but her loss, pain, and deep need to understand drove her to find answers about what really happens after we die.

With Where Did You Go? Christina reveals we all have the ability to connect with our loved ones who have passed on and teaches us how to harness that power—so that we may at last say the unsaid, discover peace in our own lives, and see a world in which we will all continue to exist, far beyond death. A step-by-step guide to journeying to the other side—as well as a groundbreaking exploration of what happens after we die—Where Did You Go? leads readers through practical exercises that serve as tools to help us experience the unseen world for ourselves, become comfortable with the experience, and trigger it whenever we desire—no psychic abilities required.

Fiercely honest and practical, Where Did You Go? bridges the gap between the metaphysical and the measurable, changing the way we grieve, the way we live, and how we define our potential—in this life, and the hereafter.

Genres: Grief, Nonfiction, Spirituality

Audiobook

Published December 18, 2018

About the author

Christina Rasmussen is an acclaimed grief educator and bestselling author of Second Firsts (Hay House,
2013), Where Did You Go? (Harper One, 2018), and Invisible Loss (Sounds True, 2024). In 2010, four
years after her thirty-five-year-old spouse passed away from Stage 4 colon cancer, she created the Life
Reentry process, which launched her on a mission to bring compassion, grace, and validation to
thousands, while simultaneously establishing an exit from what she termed the Waiting Room. Christina
holds a master’s degree in guidance and counseling (University of Durham). She is currently finishing her
master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing (Academy of Art). Her grief work has been featured on
ABC News, Psychology Today, in Women’s World, the Washington Post, and the White House Blog.

Reviews

[Blythe Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

If anyone is paying attention (doubtful), I’m reading a lot of this sort of thing right now and it’s pretty obvious why. What I am finding is that everyone who writes this sort of book has the answers. Or, they say they do. What I actually think is that many have interesting ideas or pieces of them. No one has the answers, and all of them seem bizarrely hung up on terminology and their particular way of seeing things. I just don’t think we all experience mystery in the same way.

[Deb Ristow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book as part of the Goodreads Giveaway program. I have always believed that our loved ones are surrounding us when they die and that death is not a finality but rather an extension of the life that we have lived.

Rasmussen shares a process to connect with loved ones upon their death. Through this process, the reader is guided in a step by step process on this journey. There were a few statements that really stuck with me in this book- ‘that our beloveds are still alive-just without their bodies’ and the following statement upon looking for her husband upon his passing- ‘I should have known to look not up but to look everywhere.’ These, in my opinion, were the two sentences that stuck with me and made such an impact on how I view death.

While I did not go through this process as I have had my own experience with passing, I found enough value in this book outside of the process itself. My only criticism is that I wish there would have been more personal testimonials included. Interesting read!

[Mia · Rating 1 out of 5]

A weird amalgamation of "here is some stuff about physics" and "now you know you can reach your dead loved ones by focusing on ...I don't even know--the spaces between particles? Energy? Projections in the hologram world?" I couldn't follow Rasmussen's loopdy-loop reasoning to any positive end.

I'm in favor of reaching out to our deceased loved ones--in speech, in journaling, in prayer, dreams, seances, you name it. I can read about near death experiences and past life regression all the livelong day, but I could not make sense of this book.

[Cathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book. I am open to the idea but… It is so convoluted, with lots of repetition and talking in circles. I’m not sure if the author can communicate with those on the other side, but I wish she had communicated better with those of us on this side in this particular book.

[Alexandra Jamieson · Rating 5 out of 5]

When my mom died too early of cancer, I felt lost and confused. Ours was the toughest, yet most important relationship of my life thus far. I picked up Christina's book because Second Firsts, her first book, had been so profoundly helpful.

Where Did You Go? introduced me to totally new topics, and honestly it blew my mind.

I've used her practices and insights to help me continue to heal and even enrich my relationship with my mother - I never knew that was possible.

Highly recommend for anyone still confused by loss.

[Brenda Eaves · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book. I had recently lost my youngest daughter far too soon to what was an entirely preventable condition. It was as if she chose to die rather than hang around. So I needed to read about the after-life. I was comforted by this book.

[Jennifer]

DNF. I tried to be open minded bout this material. It became impossible. I love CR but not this book.

[Sharon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although I love the premise of a world beyond this one, I found the book confusing and hard to understand. The author wrote of walking through an imaginary door to the another realm or afterlife.and meet or visualize your loved ones. I found the concept difficult to understand and I believe in an afterlife. The book fell flat for me.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting concept of contact with the spirit world.

[Elaine Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Narration took away from the creditability of the information and process.

[Kristi Newcomb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, I see where she was going with her concept. However at the end I feel she dropped the ball in in a way made everything she write previously irrelevant.

[M. Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, thoroughly enjoyed it! Highly recommend to anyone open to the field of metaphysics.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed the last part. I didn't do the exercises; wasn't in a mind-place for that, may read the book again in the future. not what I thought it would be.

[Don · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love!