Together Still: Love Beyond Death by Linda Hill. ISBN-13: 9781038323712. Pages: 204
Publisher: FriesenPress. Distributor: Ingram.
Paperback retail price: $27.99 Ca ($18.99 US).
E-Book retail price: $11.99 Ca and $7.99 US.
Audiobook retail price: $17.99 Ca and $12.99 US.
In Canada (because of the high cost of postage), ordering paperback books from FriesenPress may be the least expensive option.
Paperback and E-books available wherever books are sold or from the publisher: FriesenPress.
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Together Still portrays a well researched but little known approach to end of life accompaniment, death care and bereavement called Continuing Loving Bonds.
My beloved spouse John Scull and I spent four decades exploring the world with wonder and curiosity. We loved each other, our families, and friends wholeheartedly. We cared for nature and our community with spirits of generosity.
After John was diagnosed with a terminal illness, we resiliently continued our loving ways of accompanying each other as we travelled to the horizon of John’s life.
When John died, I was utterly unprepared for what was about to happen.
At first, I diagnosed my spiritual experiences as illnesses and dismissed John’s after-death communication as wishful thinking. Fortunately, John persisted in doing everything he possibly could to let me know he was still with me. Our reciprocal spiritual bonds transformed my off-kilter journey through my heart-fracturing grief into a heroic odyssey of what I call “re-orbiting” around love and happiness.
Although everything—absolutely everything—is now so very different, we are together still, loving beyond death.
“With poetic gentleness and vulnerable integrity, Linda Hill’s beautifully written memoir Together Still: Love Beyond Death intertwines romance, spirituality, and the healing power of Continuing Loving Bonds.“ (FriesenPress Publishing)
To this day, John and I are continuing our loving bonds through spiritual communication, messages in nature, uncanny coincidences, dream visitations, meditation, journalling, extra-sensory perception, creative arts, memorial events, legacy projects, and adventures of being alone but not alone.
These ways of actively loving beyond death are resolving my grief and positively impacting my relationships with family, friends, community, and nature.
Each chapter of my memoir highlights a different facet of the healing power of Continuing Loving Bonds during end-of-life accompaniment, death care, and bereavement.
Excerpt from Chapter 5: Two Selves
When I opened my eyes the following day to what I came to call a grief hangover, I was concerned to see a jagged kaleidoscope of twirling rainbows dancing around the periphery of my vision. I didn’t know what to make of what was going on, but my doctor was very reassuring when she returned my call a few hours later.
“I think the stress of John’s death may be causing you to have visual migraines,” she said. “They aren’t serious. Some people call them migraines without the pain. The main treatments are drinking water and resting.”
I turned my phone off, took a break from my computer, and opened a book that had arrived in my mailbox…
When I reached the end of the first chapter, I turned to the first page and read it again. Each short sentence and phrase in this book by Tom Zuba affirmed, clarified, and assured me that every spiritual thing I had experienced and witnessed during the past week had happened…
As soon as I stopped dismissing the reality of what was happening as wishful thinking, I also stopped diagnosing myself as coming down with the flu or dealing with a dissociative disorder. What felt like an illness was actually a dazed state of waves of spiritual shock. My fragmented, distorted, and dissociated feelings were not hallucinations or any other kind of mental disturbance. These strange sensations were the unfamiliar experience of my spirit shifting in and out of my body. I soon realized that if I didn’t have the flu or a mental illness, I probably didn’t have a visual migraine headache either.
This change in perspective motivated me to observe the jagged kaleidoscope of twirling lights around my eyes more closely. I gradually perceived that, instead of a migraine, I was having a vision so amazing that my mind was refusing to process what my eyes were seeing. As I opened my mind to examining the alluring, brightly coloured spirals of light dancing around my peripheral vision, I could now see that the lights were in the shape of an entryway to a bridge. The bridge began at my feet, passed through the window, and continued into the distance in a long rainbow-like arch. I walked out onto the deck to look at the bridge without the window in the way.
I don’t think this bridge ends at a pot of gold, I thought. I think this bridge is reaching all the way to the next world.
Together Still: Love Beyond Death by Linda Hill. ISBN-13: 9781038323712. Pages: 204
Publisher: FriesenPress. Distributor: Ingram.
Paperback retail price: $27.99 Ca ($18.99 US).
E-Book retail price: $11.99 Ca and $7.99 US.
Audiobook retail price: $12.99 Ca and $8.99 US.
In Canada (because of the high cost of postage), ordering paperback books from FriesenPress may be the least expensive option.
Paperback and E-books available wherever books are sold or from the publisher: FRIESENPRESS
Audiobooks available wherever audiobooks are sold or from AWESOUND
CONTINUING LOVING BONDS 