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edition:Paperback
category: Body, Mind & Spirit
published: Jul 2019
ISBN:9780228816294
publisher: Tellwell Publishing

When will it stop hurting?

One man's journey through grief

by Glenn Cameron

tagged: inspiration & personal growth, personal memoirs
Description

Crystle was the love of his life. For thirty-six years they had done everything together. As retirement approached all he could think of was spending even more time with his beautiful wife, growing old together. Just three years earlier they had sold their home in the Toronto area and moved to Niagara in preparation for retirement. Then on her 58th birthday, Crystle was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. A terminal diagnosis that Glenn never allowed himself to accept. But just eight months later she had succumbed to her illness and Glenn was thrust into a time filled with uncontrolled grief that seemed to almost suffocate him. This is his real life story. He shares the raw emotions and the dark places he visited in his mind. His story will make you laugh and cry. It will makes you cherish your loved ones. You will be uplifted as you follow his path in overcoming grief. His inspirational story will provide comfort and hope to others struggling with grief.

About the Author
Glenn Cameron

Glenn Cameron

Contributor Notes

Glenn grew up on Canada's east coast. He earned a business degree at the University of New Brunswick and has spent most of his adult working life in the information technology industry in Toronto. In 2017 Glenn's wife of 36 years was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and passed away eight months later. She was the love of his life and Glenn was thrust into a very dark period in his life. Through his grieving process Glenn began volunteering at a local Hospice and found a passion that makes his heart sing. After some time he determined he had to make a change in his career and is dedicated to helping others as they face death and grieving.

Editorial Review

WHEN WILL IT STOP HURTING? is Glenn Cameron’s very personal account of his grief for his much-loved wife and soulmate, Crystle, his wife of over 30 years who died of brain cancer in March, 2018.

This book is not so much a guide to grief or a plan to assist a person in moving through and out of grief, as it is the author’s relation of his own grieving process. While, as he points out, “not all grief is the same,” he hopes that talking about what he experienced will be of use to others trying to get through life after a deep and profound loss. He is not hesitant to reveal the starkest, most painful parts of his experience, detailing moments of jealousy and anger when he felt like accosting happy couples walking together and forcing them to share his pain, and moments of profound guilt, when he wondered whether or not he’d done everything he could to ease his wife’s pain in her last days, or find the best treatments for her. He even talks about the possibility of suicide, about how tempting it was and how he had to draw himself back from the brink by reminding himself that he needed to be there for other family members. But he also discusses the ways in which he found solace, through regaining faith in an afterlife and developing a New Age spirituality with room for meditation, prayer, and mindfulness.

While his particular methods may not work for everyone, there is comfort to be found for those in mourning, in the knowledge that other people have suffered the same sort of losses as they, and have come through the mourning process if not intact, at least more whole and better able to move on and live again. The book is short, and written in clear, simple language, which may help it be more accessible for those who feel unable to handle anything weighty or complicated. The imagery is powerful and thoughtfully chosen, with the force of real feeling behind it. While this book can’t promise to offer the ultimate solutions to a reader’s grief, or provide a scientific guide to the grieving process or anything of the sort, it does offer a simple, shared human experience, and, after all, as the old proverb says, “grief shared is halved, joy shared is doubled.”

A powerful personal account of one man’s mourning process, WHEN WILL IT STOP HURTING? offers hope to those who have lost loved ones and feel trapped in a forest of grief.

~Catherine Langrehr for IndieReader, 4 out of 5 stars

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