Working Title and Outline

Grief Shadows is not a how-to book, nor a memoir, but a series of essays relating the emotions and practical issues (like whether to throw away his toothbrush) that immediately followed her husband's accidental death, all the way up to until she re-married.

Valerie Willman reaches out to the reader with honesty and compassion and teaches us how to live with grief, gracefully.

  

"Grief Shadows: One woman's quest for inner-peace after the death of her husband" 

   I. Moments after the accident

  II. Days after the accident

  A. Uncle Phil crying in the limo

B. Sitting at the table calling credit card companies

  III. Months after his death

A.  The swim class

B. Not telling people he was dead

   IV.Seeing the crash site

A. Avoiding driving by

B. Looking at the pictures

    V. Supernatural/Angelic/Spiritual Help and Experiences

  VI. Practical Stuff

A. How to buy a house

B. How to move on

C. Do you really want to?

 VII. Dating again -- Connecting

VIII. Blending families

A. Falling in love again

B. Adopting

C. Hang-ups

D. Baggage

E. Betrayal

F. Fears

VIV. Wearing Grief with Grace -- like a smart accessory