About Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss
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 of a spouse. 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 shares 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.
Part grief poetry book, part grief memoir, and part guidebook for grievers, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is a supremely relatable walk through the aftermath of personal loss, challenging readers to embrace, express, and share their own grief 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.
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Author Bio:
Chris Martin is a corporate communications professional and writer with a passion for connecting with people at a heart level. Exploring themes of faith, family, love, and loss, his writing seeks to uplift, comfort, and encourage, while imparting wisdom, insight, and hope.
After he lost his wife of twenty years to cancer, Chris turned to poetry to help process the rollercoaster of emotions he experienced in the grieving. His first book, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss, draws on a combination of narrative, interwoven with the poetry he wrote during his grief journey. It’s a poetic memoir of his loss and his road of grief, written with the hope that others experiencing grief and loss can identify with and find solace in his words.
Outside of writing, Chris is an avid reader of history, an amateur genealogist, a fan of travel, and enjoys exploring beaches. He lives in the Atlanta, Georgia, area with his two children.