Your journey through grief and our uncertain times will continue to challenge you to examine how you are living.
You’ve learned the hard truth that loss spares no one.
Your time is limited to love and be loved, to forgive and be forgiven, and to celebrate and to be celebrated. You or someone you care about can be a heartbeat away from death at any moment.
If today were your last day to live, would you be happy with what you are doing? Would your relationships be full, healthy, and complete? Would you have mattered?
Perhaps you’d desire more meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in your life. Perhaps you’d like to live passionately, love completely, and matter more. Perhaps you’d want to act as if each day really counted and would be remembered.
Use these questions below to take an inventory of your current life, redefine priorities, and uncover new directions.
Imagine living each day as if it were your last and think about what you’d like to start or stop doing.
How Do I Live?
Do I live my life passionately following my needs and values?
Do I act to make life changes that matter?
Do I dream big with high expectations?
How Do I Matter?
Do I make a difference in the world with my unique gifts and talents?
Do I serve my divine purpose with boldness and enthusiasm?
Do I act courageously to leave a legacy that I am proud of?
How Do I Love?
Do I act completely open with my feelings and emotions?
Do I tell my loved ones how much I care about them?
Do I express what I need to say?
When you see and proclaim what you want for your world, the universe will respond…to help you live a life of integrity—an existence you can be proud of, to set an example for your family and future generations.
You may not like your answers to these questions yet. You may question the beliefs you had before sudden loss. You may feel the need to reassess everything. Unexpected loss brings unplanned self-examination and spiritual growth.
As you gradually assimilate loss into your life, you’re gaining more courage and stamina to work on your future aspirations and follow the longings of your heart. You’re becoming a stronger, different person from where you started—one who can begin to overcome any of life’s hardest challenges and savor its beautiful moments.
You’re becoming inspired to live in the way you want to be remembered.
How have you changed because of your losses?
Remembering with More Love than Pain
When a loved one dies unexpectedly, the person left behind often does not know what to do and needs guidance. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn’t know where to turn for help, nor how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson’s The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own healing process and provides an indispensable road map to assist those who’ve experienced a life-changing loss.
The Sudden Loss Survival Guide delivers the necessary tools to survive, cope, and heal from devastating loss. In this book, discover:
Praise for the Sudden Loss Survival Guide
“A wonderful resource that provides many useful tools! Chelsea Hanson has created a heart-centered guide to working through the many aspects of grief…” —Lori Pederson, founder of I Did Not Know What to Say
“The Sudden Loss Survival Guide is a must-read guidebook for everyone who has experienced an unexpected loss of any kind in their life… This book is a wonderful reminder that grief is not insurmountable, and with courage and action you can move through it in one piece.”—Sharon Ehlers, advanced grief recovery specialist and author of Grief Reiki
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