When Every Day Matters, A Mother's Memoir On Love, Loss And Life

Profound and Deeply Moving - This book is for anyone who has been touched by grief and would like to understand the journey.

Bravo MJ! Thank you for the amazing courage and strength you possess that allowed and inspired this magnificent book!

Fourteen years after my father's passing, with this book, I have finally found a way to understand my own complex feelings of grief as well as those of my mother. M.J.'s heartfelt, raw and touching story of her beautiful daughter's sojourn provides a gateway to understanding unconditional love, loss and the inevitable journey back to life and joy. This book will help you to understand some of your own feelings, thoughts and actions as well as those of others during unfamiliar and unconscionable circumstances. MJ's style is conversational, heartfelt and awash with honesty and pure love.

This book is sure to change the world... I know it has already changed mine.

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Wonderful, Inspirational Book!

This book is an inspirational account of how a young woman embraced her life and inspired so many around her during ten years of battling cancer. Katie's wisdom and grace provides the reader with a way to consider hardships in one's own life. Likewise, her mother's honest accouting of her grief, family dynamics and psychological insights gives the reader an example of how to navigate challenges in life.

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A Book To Remember

When Everyday Matters: A Mother's Memoir On Love, Loss and Life by M.J.Hurley Brant is a beautifully written, heartbreaking book about the life and death of the author's lovely, intelligent, funny, amazing daughter, Katie. In my work as a psychologist, I deal with difficult issues of all kinds but there is nothing worse than the death of a child. This forthright and loving book will be an invaluable source of comfort and encouragement to anyone dealing with such a tragic loss. It offers insight into how Katie and her wonderful family lived day in and day out, year in and year out waiting for the other shoe to drop but still managing to embrace everyday with joy and hope. At the end of Katie's story, one is left with a desire to manifest the kind of courage with which Katie lived her brave and selfless life. I highly recommend this deeply touching memoir.

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