In the mid ‘80s and early ‘90s, I enjoyed a successful career in the then burgeoning cable television industry. One day, in 1992, as I was returning to my office after lunch, I literally ran into the man who would be my soulmate and best friend for 23 years. I and my beloved husband, Charlie, lived a blissful, loving life in a beautiful, hand-hewn log cabin at 9,000 in the Colorado Rockies. 

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But then, on April 6, 2015, Charlie took his own life. I was shocked. In an instant, my life as I knew it had been shattered into a million little pieces. I could not have conceived then that I would ever be capable or even desirous of picking up those pieces, let alone emerging from the wreckage a strong, happy, and emotionally empowered woman. I share my story of loss in my award-winning book, Love Loss Light-Illuminating the Path Through Grief with the fervent prayer that it may be of service to my fellow travelers in grief.