Grief to Gratitude

Embracing the Inner Pathway to Healing and Peace

By: Steven Ferrara

Narrated by: Steven Ferrara

How would you handle it when you're forced to deal with the most excruciating moment of your life?

That was Steven Ferrara’s pressing question when his son, Christopher, died in a car accident at age twenty-three. After immense grieving and anger, Steven was devastated. He realized he needed to seek a more productive way of working through the loss of Chris—for himself as well as for his family.

He found daily journaling was therapeutic. At first, he shared only raw emotions, but eventually, Steven’s writing became a new mode of communicating with Chris, like figuring out a new language. One entry was a revelation. Steven asked, “What if I saw this from Chris’s viewpoint?”

Steven had always supported Chris in his endeavors while he was alive. “What if,” Steven asked, “I could see this experience as a continuing journey—and Chris as a spiritual partner?” Combing through those journals became the center of Grief to Gratitude, where he could clearly notice lessons he had taken to heart about searching for a more awakened life. Steven offers those vulnerable entries at the start of each chapter in Grief to Gratitude and asks these powerful questions:

• What if we saw death with curiosity instead of fear?
• What if we saw death from our loved one’s perspective instead of ours?
• What if we considered “What can be?” instead of “What could have been?” after someone dies?
• What if we could simply be grateful for the experience?

Steven finds a way from grief to gratitude—and invites listeners to discover the same journey, whether they are struggling from the death of a loved one or some other heartbreaking loss or tragedy.

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