In 2006, Ida Marie Kaufman lost her son to suicide. She learned firsthand the emotional dynamics of death and intense grief that demanded to be resolved. She gives an honest and transparent account of her grief work that brought her from the darkness of despair to a new perspective of her values and her acceptance of change.
Ida Marie gives an account of the people who helped her find unity with grief, giving it a rightful place as a normal human emotion. She learned that grief commands acceptance and resolution or it will turn into hopeless despair.