{"title":"Grief \u0026 Loss","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was 8:20 pm when my dad called. I thought my mom was giving him a hard time. Three streets later, I was on the floor beside her, telling her to hold on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe didn't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNobody told me what came next. The autopilot. The anger. The triggers that found me in grocery stores, on holidays, and on my son's tenth birthday, the one my mom had already been planning to celebrate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe phone number I still haven't deleted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is everything nobody told me. Written not by a grief expert but by a daughter who lives it, who sees coming out the other side clearer, is harder to mess with, and is more certain than ever about what actually matters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you lost your mom suddenly and you're searching for something real, this was written for you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo One Tells You This: What the Spot on the Floor Taught Me About Losing My Mom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Julie-Ann Denny\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-one-tells-you-this-what-the-spot-on-the-floor-taught-me-about-losing-my-mom","title":"No One Tells You This: What the Spot on the Floor Taught Me About Losing My Mom","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was 8:20 pm on an ordinary Sunday evening when everything changed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe call came without warning. No goodbye. No time to prepare. One moment, life was normal, and the next, Julie was on the floor of her parents’ living room, performing CPR, looking into her mother's eyes, telling her to hold on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe didn't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd nobody told Julie what came next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNobody told her about the autopilot, the strange, efficient numbness that would carry her through the phone calls and the funeral arrangements and the meals for her nine-year-old son while her grief sat quietly in a locked room, patient and waiting. Nobody told her about the anger that would arrive without warning and frighten her with its force. Nobody told her that the triggers would find her everywhere, in a grocery store, on the drive past her parents' street, on every holiday her mother had loved, on her son's tenth birthday that Grit had already been planning to celebrate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNobody told her that she would never delete her mother's number from her phone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is everything nobody told her, and everything she wishes someone had.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo One Tells You This\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not a clinical guide to the five stages of grief. It is not written by a therapist or a grief counselor. It is written by a daughter, a woman who dove to the floor to save her mother, who consoled everyone who called to console her, who kept moving because stillness felt unsurvivable, and who came out the other side changed in ways she never expected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is written for anyone searching for something real at 2 am.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor those who lost their mom suddenly and had no chance to say goodbye. For the ones who held it together through the funeral and then fell apart somewhere quiet and private weeks later. For the ones who are angry in ways that frighten them. For the ones who still haven't deleted the number. For the ones who are learning, slowly and imperfectly, to carry a loss that never fully lifts, and to live a life worthy of the person who raised them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrit, foul-mouthed, fiercely loving, raised a daughter who kept going.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is proof of that.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if you are reading this, you are still going too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MahoganyBloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51880680063108,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4108\/4804\/files\/gumroadthumbnail.png?v=1779503404"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4108\/4804\/collections\/gumroad_thumbnail.png?v=1779503144","url":"https:\/\/mahoganybloomdesigns.ca\/collections\/grief-loss.oembed","provider":"MahoganyBloom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}