Normal Broken, Kelly Cervantes
Normal Broken, Kelly Cervantes
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Normal Broken
The Grief Companion for When It's Time to Heal but You're Not Sure You Want To

Author: Kelly Cervantes

Narrator: Kelly Cervantes

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/07/2023

Synopsis

In Normal Broken, Kelly Cervantes isn't trying to tell you what to do, how to feel, or the right way to heal. She's also not flinging sunny thoughts, vibes, and prayers at you. After losing her daughter to epilepsy, she knows that grief is many things. Something everyone will have to deal with. But never linear. Just as what we are grieving varies, so do our journeys to process it.

Normal Broken was born out of this desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them.

Normal Broken is divided into "moments" of grief that will allow you to choose what you need at any given time—such as:

● When you're not sure if you want to heal

● When you're facing anniversaries and other meaningful dates

● When you're ready to be okay

Kelly also shares stories from her ongoing journey, along with advice she wishes someone had given her. Normal Broken is designed to serve as a companion through your own grief journey, whether you are mourning the loss of a child, a friend, a family member, or anyone special in your life.

About Kelly Cervantes

Kelly Cervantes is an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate best known for her blog Inchstones, where she shared the stress, love, and joy that came with parenting her medically complex daughter, Adelaide. Since Adelaide's passing, Kelly has continued to write candidly about her arduous and, at times, contradictory grief journey.

She has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Cosmopolitan, as well as quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and People. She is the board chair for the nonprofit CURE Epilepsy and also hosts their biweekly podcast, Seizing Life, where she interviews scientists, doctors, and individuals affected by epilepsy. Kelly currently resides in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband, four children (two physically, two spiritually), and their two dogs, Tabasco and Sriracha.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dana

Grief is a form of madness, and many grievers will recognize themselves in Cervantes' account. Here is a particularly poignant and helpful insight: "Grief and gratitude have a deeply complicated relationship: our grief is more intense when we have the most gratitude for what we've lost." A necessary......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

No matter where you are in your grief journey this book is for you! I am just short of 2 years into my grief. I have read it twice. The validation and feeling of being understood is overwhelming. It is an easy read. I didn't want to put it down. It never felt heavy emotionally. I felt as though I wa......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly

As a Bereavement Counselor, I will be recommending this book to many who have lost a child. Kelly is relatable, raw, and somehow incorporates humor into her incredibly devastating loss and grief story. Kelly tells her story of being a mother and advocate to a child with a chronic, neurological disor......more

Goodreads review by Farah G

This is an interesting and useful guide on how to navigate profound loss in a person's life. In the book, Kelly Cervantes does not, thankfully, take a prescriptive approach. That would be both tone deaf and disingenuous. What this book does have to offer is a whole range of tools with which to analy......more

Goodreads review by Najwa

When a book succeeds in bringing tears to my eyes as I listened to it (I had the audio book), it is considered as an amazing book. As I listened to Kelly's narration, I couldn't help but feel the broken heart she has due to her daughter's illness and then passing. I also could tell the amount of lov......more

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