The Heart Remembers
A Memoir of Personal Growth
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Most of us have within ourselves the ability to inculcate changes into our developed framework of how the world is. Whatever we’ve designed to be our model of what is real is necessarily built to absorb, or deny, the experiences that continuously build that framework. The way one perceives herself before the change event can be quite painful to re-associate with new perceptions. Without being too clinical, the ability to change, however slowly, however painfully, is critical to all life. It is helpful to have guideposts, signs, teachings and all manner of knowledge to inform us of how to proceed with inevitable change. It is helpful to know that someone has walked down a similar path before you. It is helpful to know that someone else has survived what feels like at the time to be a life-ending event.
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For many years, J. Lei and her husband, Trent, lived an idyllic life on a Texas ranch, one that had been in their family for five generations. But then Trent was diagnosed with stage four cirrhosis and died unexpectedly. In The Heart Remembers, Lei offers a personal account of how she processed and dealt with the death of her beloved spouse. This memoir follows her journey from the beginning—through the uncertain steps of the initial diagnosis to the inevitable end of a fatal disease. She shares the grief she experienced as a surviving spouse and provides insight into the emotions, actions, and thoughts one might experience in a similar circumstance. The Heart Remembers chronicles the courage and determination that was necessary to pull through one of life’s saddest and most shocking events. It presents an honest, intimate, and down-to-earth account of one woman’s struggle to turn tragedy into enlightenment and shows that hope exists in all things—even death.
About the Author
J. Lei earned a bachelor of science degree in education and a master’s degree in counseling. She is a certified teacher and counselor and has taught writing for more than ten years. A widow, she has two sons and four grandchildren and lives in the Southwest.