Finding Joy After Loss: My Journey Through Grief

by Wendy Benning Swanson

A poignant story of loss and how a young mother picked herself up and found the courage to move forward in the search for answers about death, loss, and grief while foraging a new path in her desire to find joy again. Wendy’s life was forever changed when her husband passed away from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in 2009. She had already experienced a traumatic loss when her mother had passed away a year earlier, and now she was left with a one-year-old son and a new path that she had to forge alone. This is a story about the loss of her spouse and her journey to finding her way out of the challenges of loss, grief, and sadness and back into joy. It is her story of hope, how she moved forward one step at a time and how her quest to understand life after death helped her heal and move forward.

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2019

Reviews

[Cary Wheeland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finding Joy After Loss is a thoughtful, well written book. The author shares her story without holding back. After being widowed at a very young age due to her husband’s accidental death and with a one year old to raise, the author wrestled with grief and came to an early conclusion - as William Johnsen wrote: “If it is to be, its up to me!” She picked herself up by the bootstraps and decided she was going to make things happen, for herself as well as her young son.

The author, indeed, finds joy again and is enjoying life to the fullest.

Finding Joy will be helpful to anyone who has gone through traumatic loss and is seeking answers and direction.