IF YOU'RE GRIEVING,

I WANT YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING

I understand more than I ever wanted to.

I lost my husband in 2022, and even with everything I had lived through in life and business, nothing prepared me for what grief truly felt like.

I thought I was handling it.


I thought I was coping.

What I did not understand was that my body, mind, and emotions had gone into survival mode long before he died. The exhaustion, relief, numbness, confusion, brain fog, and delayed grief caught me completely off guard.

And almost nobody talks honestly about those parts.

That's why I wrote Coping with Grief and Loss

Not as a textbook.


Not as therapy language.


Not as a collection of clichés people say when they don’t know what else to say.

I wrote it as an honest, deeply personal conversation about the realities of grief that many people experience and rarely understand while they are going through it.

If you are grieving right now, I want you to know this:

You are not failing.
You are not losing your mind.
And you are not alone.

There is a path forward, even if you cannot see

it yet.

There is a path forward, even if you cannot see it yet.

And yes, life can feel meaningful again.

Not the same.
Not untouched.

Not like the person you were before grief changed you.

Because the truth is, some losses change us forever.

I no longer expect to “go back” to who I was before my husband died.

Grief changed me.

It changed how I see life.

How I value time.

How I experience people, freedom, beauty, exhaustion, love, and even myself.

And while I am not the same person I once was, I have come to genuinely like and appreciate who I am becoming.

I think that distinction matters deeply.

Jan Janzen

I hope that when you read this book, it helps you feel a little more understood, a little less afraid, and a

little less alone.

I hope that when you read this book, it helps you feel

a little more understood, a little less afraid,

and a little less alone.

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