What Must Be Carried

Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-394-31199-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

A guide to start living again for those who have lost a loved one, written by a mother and widow

What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss is an empathetic guidebook that walks readers through the grieving process, giving them the tools they need to carry the pain of their loss and start truly living again. With relatable personal narratives from Whitney Lyn Allen Gadecki, mother of two boys, Jackson and Leo, certified grief educator and coach, and a widow whose life has been forever altered by the loss of her husband, as well as actionable advice for those grieving, this book is a perfect, steady companion for anyone impacted by a devastating loss.

This book explores ideas including:

- The emotional range of processing grief, from numbness, to agony and rage, to cascading waterfalls of tears and beyond
- Patience, experimentation, time, curiosity, and practice as difficult but essential foundations of living with and healing from grief
- How to discover contentment, peace, love, and beauty anew, even when it often feels like life is all downhill from here
- Grief's hidden gifts of helping you live more authentically, ambitiously, purposefully, and fearlessly despite its heavy burden

What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss is an important, helpful, and cathartic read for widows and all those who have lost someone precious to them seeking to once again shine brightly in the face of darkness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gadecki, Whitney Lyn Allen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Letter to the Reader xi 

Introduction xix 

Chapter 1 The Weight I Carry 1 

Chapter 2 He’s Not Coming Home 9 

Chapter 3 Don’t Let Them Steal Your Joy 31 

Chapter 4 When the Grief Lasagnas Stop Coming 55 

Chapter 5 The Unraveling 75 

Chapter 6 The Art of Practicing Living Before You Feel Alive 87 

Chapter 7 The Scarlet “W” 97 

Chapter 8 A Love That Feels Like Coming Home 109 

Chapter 9 It’s Not About a Refrigerator 131 

Chapter 10 Wings to Fly 141 

Chapter 11 I Carry It All with Me 155 

Afterword 169 

Acknowledgments 173 

About the Author 175

Über Autor(innen)

WHITNEY LYN ALLEN GADECKI is a mother of two boys, a certified grief educator, and an attorney. She was a medical malpractice attorney for 10 years before her late husband, Ryan, suffered anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, resulting in his death. Whitney wrote about her grieving journey in her memoir Running in Trauma Stilettos. She is currently a full-time grief coach.