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Feeling My Way Through the Midlands

Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss

by Chris Martin

Are you lost in an emotional middle ground after losing a loved one? You’re not alone.

Narrating a widower’s grief journey, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is more than simply a memoir of loss. It movingly articulates and validates the turbulent emotions and lessons learned in the grieving, while renewing faith and hope for the future.

At age forty-one, Chris Martin’s life changed forever when he lost his wife of twenty years to cancer. With refreshing vulnerability and authenticity, this book traces his story of loss and his emotions along the often-confusing road of grief through a series of reflective insights and a collection of more than ninety heartfelt poems. It grapples with the difficult parts of the grief journey—questions, fog, loneliness, guilt, emptiness, pain, bitterness, regrets, lamenting, powerlessness, and deep sorrow. At the same time, it keeps sight of an eternal perspective based in faith in God, reflecting on legacy, gratitude, contentment, and hope in the midst of it all.

Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is a supremely relatable walk through the aftermath of personal loss, challenging readers to embrace and express their own emotions as part of their healing process while moving forward one day at a time.

A balance of raw emotion, encouragement to keep going, and wisdom for the road ahead, this book is a valuable companion on the grief journey.