Missy LeBlanc Ivey's Reviews > Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

Your grieving process is your grieving process. Nothing you feel or do is right or wrong. I went through every emotion available. There is no time limit. You find ways to plow through, and I plowed through and am still breathing and living life.

This book is a day-to-day helper and right on point. The author has already experienced what you are going through with the death of her daughter. She knows. No matter what you are feeling, it is alright. Just don’t sit there and dwell in it until you feel you can’t dig yourself out of a grave. That’s not alright.

I joined The 365 Hiking Challenge to help exert some negative energy and push myself through fears of being alone and doing things on my own. I hiked for months either alone with my dog, or with certain family members. But, they all petered out on me. I wanted to do more. Then, I met my new hiking buddy and now new partner.

My life has changed since the passing of my husband a little over a year ago now. I will always love and cherish him. But, whether I was ready for it or not, I had to learn to live life in a whole new way. God has shed his grace on me, even though a lot of times I still don’t feel like I deserve it. But, it is what it is, and I am once again able to feel happiness in my life.