Notes from Planet Widow - Suesse, Gwen
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"A loving, gracious invitation to a land that is ever so difficult to traverse." - Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Women Food and God Gwen's life was rolling along largely in the way her husband and she expected it would. Ups and downs here and there, for sure, but basically on a mostly predictable trajectory. But on an August day she will never forget, normalcy vaporized with the sudden death of her beloved husband. Boom! Without warning, she landed on Planet Widow, an utterly barren landscape with no roads, no buildings, no people, no trees, no anything in sight-only…mehr

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"A loving, gracious invitation to a land that is ever so difficult to traverse." - Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Women Food and God Gwen's life was rolling along largely in the way her husband and she expected it would. Ups and downs here and there, for sure, but basically on a mostly predictable trajectory. But on an August day she will never forget, normalcy vaporized with the sudden death of her beloved husband. Boom! Without warning, she landed on Planet Widow, an utterly barren landscape with no roads, no buildings, no people, no trees, no anything in sight-only total desolation with mind-bending disorientation and soul-piercing heartache as her sole companions. Gwen had no vision of what life could look like in such a place. Slowly, however-oh, so agonizingly slowly-a landscape began to take shape. Signposts came into focus to reveal a path forward. Insights built on each other to form a trail of breadcrumbs that she used to hold herself together as she learned a new way of being. Notes from Planet Widow is a story of rebirth, describing the trail of insights that knit themselves together to restore one's sense of wholeness within an altered context. While one can't totally eradicate grief, we can learn profound lessons from it. Finding the courage to be open to it as a fierce teacher, Gwen slowly lived her way into a new realization of self that includes grief, transforming disorientation into grounding and a measure of peace."This book is deep, curious, and full of wonder. . .It is a gifted piece of writing. . . sometimes difficult yet elevating to read. Wise and wonderful." - Leigh Steiner, Ph.D., Former Illinois Commissioner of Mental Health "This insightful work narrates Gwen's journey of grief and grace in widowhood. Quoting myriad writers, sages, philosophers, poets, and more, it blazes with personal and universal understandings . . . As a stand-alone, the Resources section at the end is an invaluable tool to help readers pursue their own journeys of self-compassion and acceptance." - Sara J. Glerum, Beatstalkingtomyself.com
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After acquiring a BA from Wagner College, Gwen earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University. She is a certified Martha Beck Life Coach, certified by the Creative Grief Studio as a Creative Grief Support Practitioner, and certified as an administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory¿. Gwen has broad history of professional experience, including teaching, choral conducting, working in human resources, life coaching, leading volunteer organizations, writing, and conducting workshops. She has presented keynotes at women's conferences and charity events. Gwen has lived the modern woman's conundrums. Her first book, Womansong: Balance and Harmony in a Feminine Key, was the natural outgrowth of her struggle to reconcile the patriarchal identity of her youth with the growing awareness in her adulthood that women are entitled to their own dreams and self-realization. The book addresses her quest to find a way to balance family, professional, and personal goals. Womansong won two awards, taking First Place in Women's Issues in the Indie Excellence Contest, and tying for Bronze in the Ippy Awards Contest. Her second book, Notes from Planet Widow: Finding My Way After Loss, picks up her story years later, after the unexpected death of her beloved husband landed her in the alien territory of widowhood. It recounts how a trail of insights knit themselves together to restore her sense of wholeness within the altered context of being on her own. Active in the communities she's been pleased to call home, Gwen served on a Board of Education and on numerous boards of community nonprofit organizations, including presidency of Tryon Concert Association for fifteen years. She lives in Tryon, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. See Gwen's blog, Now It's Time to Dance, and learn more about her work as a life coach at www.act2lifecoaching.com