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Soul Stripped Bare
Soul Stripped Bare
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In an era of happiness, lattes and the ‘quick fix’ Donohoe explores the natural but painful experience of grief. The question on her lips is ‘Am I Grieving Normally?’ She soon discovers there is nothing normal about profound loss. This beautifully written memoir and grief manual is healing and transformative for anyone experiencing loss.

“Grief provided time to heal from the brokenness of loss: my broken heart, my broken spirit, my broken life, my broken future…”

Meet courageous parents who all learnt that love transcends death and that grieving is like breathing – we instinctively know how to do it.

“Death stripped my son of his life yet grief provided the opportunity to strip away the protective walls I’d built around mine. Death was the doorway to his new life in spirit and as my precious son moved on, I too, was moving on. My soul had been stripped bare in preparation for my rebirth.”
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Release dateJan 22, 2021
ISBN9781504322348
Soul Stripped Bare
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Yvonne Donohoe

From school memos to spiritual messages... When a drunken driver killed her son, respected school principal, Yvonne Donohoe, was thrown into the unimaginable world of parental grief. Although she believed in eternal life she had no idea it meant a continuation of the spirit from the moment of death. Embarking on a journey that challenged fifty years of religious beliefs, it took her across the world and into the hearts and lives of those experiencing the depths of loss. Each chapter is laced with the subtle strength of the human spirit, while meticulously exploring current understandings of grief. Yvonne’s fearless acceptance of soul lessons and openness to ‘messages’ from her deceased son will captivate the mind, heal the soul and act as a balm on the heart. “The pain of letting him go was like birthing my precious son into the next stage of his eternal journey.”

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