Life After Losses: A Memoir of Self-Healing

James Laveck

James LaVeck, Jan 26, 2021 - Biography & Autobiography - 172 pages

Uplifting and inspiring, leaving hope that it does get better.

In Life After Losses, Author James LaVeck offers help for grieving by taking readers on an intimate journey of love, loss, healing, recovery, and discovery.

After seven happy years with his first love, losing his husband sent him to his knees. He shares an honest and heartbreaking story of healing and ultimately falling in love again, only to face the unimaginable, devastating death after fifteen years of his second spouse.

This touching and raw narrative sets out one man's moving story of his struggle to overcome the tragic label of double-widower by age forty-seven. Combining poignant storytelling with practical advice, LaVeck unveils the true hurdles to the grueling grieving process... and the power of realization paired with coming out the other side.

Life After Losses: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Life is an inspiring look into living after endings. If you appreciate tell-it-like-it-is honesty, reassuring guidance, and heart-wrenching journeys, then you'll be moved by James LaVeck's stirring account.

Buy Life After Losses to reclaim hope today!

About the author

James LaVeck has spent the greater part of his life consulting for financial institutions and providing project management services. He has helped produce two movies and a classical-crossover album. He is also an author and wrote his memoir, Life After Losses. Jim fell in love with his first husband, Bob, and spent seven years with him before losing him. After a number of years, and with much struggle, he got back to himself and began to date again. He married his second husband and lost him, as well. He began to write his memoir as a cathartic exercise, but it began to metamorphose into a profound narrative that addressed the human experience in learning to deal with the loss of a significant other. With his deep and personal story, he has penned what it's like to feel intense passion towards someone, building a life together, raising children, and dealing with an overbearing sense of grief. He is a native Californian who currently resides in Massachusetts with his two teenage children and two dogs. He enjoys music, musical theatre, and movies. He enjoys going to concerts and is at present learning to play the piano. After several years of volunteering in the community, he has also begun to take acting classes and vocal lessons with the hope of participating in community theatre projects.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Life After Losses: A Memoir of Self-Healing
• Author: James Laveck
• Publisher: James LaVeck, 2021
• ISBN: 1735770701, 9781735770703
• Length: 172 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ; Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Self-Help / General