“When will it stop hurting?”: One man’s journey through grief by Glenn Cameron

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“When will it stop hurting?”: One man’s journey through grief

by Glenn Cameron

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GENRE: Memoir

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BLURB:

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.

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EXCERPTS:

My story is about grief. It is my personal experience as I worked through the pain I felt in losing Crystle. Grief is a harsh emotion that overcame me in ways I could never have imagined. I faced anger, jealousy, guilt, hopelessness and aloneness. I confess my mind even wandered into the realm of suicide. In the end, I determined life was very much worth living.

I am not a trained therapist, counsellor, or medical practitioner. My undergraduate degree is in business and I have been an IT professional for most of my career. I kept asking myself, “What can I offer people? What is different about my story?”

Experience is what I have to offer. The real-life experiences in Just Stay helped me, so maybe my story can help others, too. I have walked the dark path of grief and emerged into the daylight. The sun looks different now but there is sunshine and for that I am grateful. I don’t think anyone ever completely recovers from loss of a loved one, but you can defeat the grief.

This book is not a guide through grief. There will be no ten steps to recovery. I do not intend to imply that books offering advice and specific steps to overcoming grief are not important. There are many books offering solutions to grief. I recommend anyone going through grief read at least one of these books. I have read many books over the past year relating to grief and each one has given me a small piece of my own personal puzzle. Each time I read a book, some piece would connect with me and slowly I began to get the upper hand on my own grief.

The grief group I attended after Crystle passed allowed me to meet fellow travellers on the road of grief. I was doing reasonably well, at least as I judged myself. About halfway through the eight-week session, one of the members of our group asked the facilitator a question: “When will it stop hurting?” The question pierced through me. If ever I experienced compassion it was at that moment. This member of our group had lost a spouse, too, about the same time as Crystle had passed. I had pondered the very same question myself. But my perspective was different. It was then I realized how unique the process of working through grief is for each of us. This member of our group was lost in grief and the question was framed in the hope that if a certain amount of time passed, the hurt, too, would pass. The truth is there is no time frame by which you should feel better. I have met others who tried to wait out grief, but grief seems to have infinite patience. It won’t simply go away unless we make it go away.

My deepest hope in sharing my story is that some of what I write will be a help, in some small way, so that others can use a part of my path through grief to find their own unique way to healing.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

I grew up in Canada’s east coast and moved to Toronto in my late teens. I was ready to sow my wild oats in the big city. But I met Crystle on a blind date and everything changed. I knew she was the love of my life. I have a business degree from the University of New Brunswick and I have worked in the information technology sector much of my working career. That hardly is credentials for an author, but life makes us all experts, even in areas we may prefer not to hold that title. When Crystle passed my life was forever changed. My grief was so overwhelming I felt I needed to share my story and if even one person is inspired to defeat grief then my writing career will be a success.

Website – https://glenncam.com/

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/626464.Glenn_Cameron

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