Corey Stiles - Grief Interrupted: A Holistic Guide to Reclaiming Your Joy

Corey throws out a life preserver to anyone caught in the swirling waters of grief. All one has to do is grab a hold and she will gentle draw you back to safety and wellness again.

Sherry Zak Morris, CEO, Yoga Journey Productions

What a brilliant work illuminating the path of the griever, but also illuminating new possibilities. Corey invites us to go with her on an amazing journey to the awareness that while grief is a timeless aspect of our life experience, it can lead us to open doors to a joyful life that we would not imagine possible after a significant loss.

Kevin Kaiser, Co-founder, Kaiser Institute

A fantastic book! Powerful, practical, and solid advice on tackling the really hard aspects of grief in a very loving transformative way! I came away from this book feeling so inspired and with a much greater context for the often narrow field of grief.

-Sarah Entrup, Founder of Free the She

Grief Interrupted is a book that reaches out and touches your heart. In sharing the story of how she lost her daughter, Corey Stiles reminds us that living with grief is not only possible, but that more importantly, it has a significant role to play in our healing. She walks us through the steps she used herself to recover from the emotional impact of her loss; steps that we often avoid, incorrectly assuming they will add to our pain. Instead, Corey shows us how each step is essential to the resolution of the trauma and how we can grow in spite of grief. Beautifully laid out, these steps make up a path we can use again and again as we deal with the sometimes unexpected and painful circumstances of life.

Sandi Amorim, Master Coach and author of The 100 Day Promise

What a healing, supportive, gentle reminder that grief is a journey that we all experience, and also that, rather than getting mired in the depths of grief, we can also reclaim joy as part of the path. Grief Interrupted highlights a road map of tools including allowing nature to soften you, relieving tension in the body, and cultivating more pleasure. Corey Stiles has written a lovely and supportive guide!

Sue Rasmussen, Clutter Coach and best-selling author of My Desk Is Driving Me Crazy

What a heart-centered, gentle book to guide you through the process of grief, and open you up to reclaim life and joy. Grief Interrupted is written by someone who knows what theyre talking about, including the effects of grief on not only your mindset and emotional state, but on your body - and shares simple, obvious steps that arent so simple or obvious when you are in the midst of a devastatingly dark storm of emotion. Grief Interrupted would be the book to pick up when youve had some time to process the shock of loss and are even vaguely thinking about toeing past the line of all-consuming grief and want to see if you can be happy again.

Sara Blanchard, mothers happiness advocate and best-selling author of Flex Mom

Grief Interrupted

A Holistic Guide to Reclaiming Your Joy

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A Holistic Guide to Reclaiming Your Joy

COREY STILES

NEW YORK

NASHVILLEMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

For Aleisha:
Master Lightbringer

ARE YOU THE KIND OF PERSON who talks to perfect strangers on planes?

If youre flying by yourselfwhether for business or whilst on holidayare you likely to strike up a conversation with someone youve never met?

Ive always kinda admired those people who are good at thatcarrying on with some person they just randomly met seconds agochatting it up in that spirited, small-talk way that some people do. My Mom is the all-time best. Shell jibber-jabber with just about anyone at any time.

But I am NOT one of those people.

For me, flyingwhen solo is a sanctuary experience.

And I fly a lot. 1.57 million miles lifetime.

In all those miles, and on all those flightsIve probably had a legit conversation with all tolled maybe four or five strangers ever. Seriously. Single digits.

Which makes the story of how I met Corey Stiles all the more remarkable.

We were on a Southwest Airlines flight from Washington Dulles to Denver sitting window and aisle in 9A and 9C (if youve ever flown Southwest you know theres no business class availablebut the closest thing to an upgrade is when theres nobody in the dreaded middle seat.) So the first icebreaker in this conversation between perfect strangers was a celebration of not having to endure being squeezed on both sides by some former Nebraska interior lineman in 9B which was mercifully empty as we pushed back from the gate.

We then got on to what do you do for a living? only to discover that we each share the experience of writing a book. Of course, we were compelled (as if by literary law) to ask each other sooooo, whats YOUR book about (I write about how companies can improve their customer service).

But even in her 30 second, courteously minimal synopsis, I knew that what this perfect stranger was telling methe story of this bookwas the single worst story I would ever imagine.

Of all the stuff one might go through in this crazy life the amazing highlight-reel moments of your youth, your family events, your career accomplishments, all the good stuff, as well as the badness that happens from time to time: having a bone broken, having your heart broken, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, watching helplessly as people you love suffers from disease or misfortuneout of ALL the things that could even conceivably happen in the span of ones entire life

there couldnt possibly be anything worse than the experience the woman in 9A was telling me aboutin her short, 30 second story.

The story of losing a teenaged child.

Think about it: Right at that exact moment when you start to see your childyour offspringas a true person, coming of age; full of unearned confidence, and untapped emotions, and exuberant irrationality, beginning to achieve their first ever grown up victoriesright at the exact moment when you start to barely make out the earliest light of your childs transition into self-sufficiency

their light is extinguished. Like THAT.

Ya knowmost of us parents get lucky (our son is now 23). Because for all the stupid hi-jinx kids get into, all the juvenile growing-up awkwardness and horrible decision-making of teenage-hood somehow, they survive it all.