The Season of After: Finding God in the Ashes of Grief

The Season of After: Finding God in the Ashes of Grief

Some seasons change us. Others require us to learn how to live again.
 
After losing my mother in 2024, I found myself navigating a kind of grief that words couldn't always capture. There were things I couldn't articulate, emotions I didn't know how to process, and moments when I needed somewhere to put everything I was carrying. So, I started writing. What began as journaling became a deeply personal journey of sitting with my grief, confronting the realities of loss, and learning to navigate life in the absence of someone whose presence had shaped so much of me.

For two years, I carried it, wrote through it, questioned it, reflected on it, and allowed myself to experience the uncomfortable and often unexpected dimensions of healing. As a therapist, I understood grief through the lens of psychology, human behavior, and the clinical understanding of how loss affects the mind and body. As a woman of faith, I also understood that my relationship with God would be integral to how I navigated this season, but experiencing grief personally introduced me to dimensions of the human experience that professional knowledge alone cannot fully capture.

I began to recognize that grief is not exclusive to death. We grieve relationships, identities, opportunities, familiar places, expectations, and versions of life we thought we would have, and sometimes, the hardest part isn't the moment of loss. It's learning how to live in everything that comes after. Somewhere along the way, what I was writing to help myself heal became something God could use to help someone else.

That is how The Season of After was birthed.

A deeply personal 30-day devotional that weaves together my lived experience, biblical theology, psychological and medical insight, and therapeutic reflection. It explores the intersection of faith, grief, the human experience, and the body's response to loss. Through Scripture, personal reflection, guided exercises, and practical insight, this book invites readers to acknowledge what they have experienced, understand what grief can do to the mind and body, and make room for the ongoing process of healing. This is not a story about rushing through grief, pretending everything is okay, or putting a spiritual explanation over a very human experience.
 
It is about discovering that God is present in the ashes, that healing is not always linear, and that life can still unfold after loss.
I lived through the story. I became through the healing. Now, I am sharing what was born in the process.

The Season After: Finding God in the Ashes of Grief
A 30-Day Devotional Journey Through Grief, Faith, and the Slow Work of Healing.
 
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