Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss

Narrating a widower's grief journey, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is more than simply a story of the loss of a loved one. It movingly articulates and validates the turbulent emotions and lessons learned in the grieving, while renewing faith and hope for life after loss.

At age forty-one, Chris Martin's life changed forever when he suddenly lost his wife of twenty years to cancer. With refreshing vulnerability and authenticity, this book traces his story of loss and his emotions along the often-confusing road of grief shared through a series of reflective insights, interwoven with a combination of narrative and more than ninety heartfelt poems. It grapples with the difficult parts of the grief journey:

• Questions
• Fog
• Loneliness
• Guilt
• Emptiness
• Pain
• Bitterness
• Regrets
• Lamenting
• Powerlessness
• And deep sorrow

Part grief memoir, part grief poetry book, and part guidebook for grievers, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is a supremely relatable walk through the aftermath of the loss of a loved one, helping those experiencing grief share, embrace, and express their own emotions as part of their grieving process while moving forward toward healing one day at a time.

A balance of raw emotion, encouragement to keep going, and faith, hope, and wisdom for the road ahead, this book is a valuable companion on the grief journey for any griever, but especially for the grieving widower or widow.

From reader reviews:

"Chris takes us into the raw and the real of a life well-lived but gone too soon...This [is] a captivating story that will transform your healing journey."

"...engaging and heartfelt, drawing you in with his candor and vulnerability...this book will be a blessing to many that have endured the loss of a loved one."

"This book was truly heartfelt and beautiful, and I absolutely loved it!"

"...manages to encapsulate the myriad of experiences around profound love and loss with such grace and memorability...and gently offers the wisdom and healing he has gleaned from his journey with the Lord through unexpected loss. No matter your stage of life, I believe this beautiful book will bless you deeply."