After April 9th:: Love, Loss, and Becoming

After April 9th is not a book about death.It is a book about what happens after.After love is tested.After identity shifts.After life no longer looks the way you thought it would.On April 9, 2020, everything changed…quietly,irrevocably. In the space between before and after,grief arrived without ceremony, without witnesses,and without instructions. What followed was not a neatjourney towards healing, but an honest reckoning with loss,love, survival, and the slow work of becoming someone new.Written over five years, After April 9th: Love, Loss, and Becomingis a deeply personal memoir told through lived moments,reflections, and hard…won truths. It explores the unseen middle…theseason where you’re functioning, showing up, even smiling, whilesomething inside you knows you are no longer the same.This is a story about loving deeply, grieving fully, and choosing notto abandon yourself in the process. About learning the differencebetween loneliness and peace. About boundaries, resilience,and the quite strength it takes to keep becoming after everythingfamiliar has been stripped away.For anyone who has loved, lost, and wondered who they are now…this book offers companionship, honesty, and the reminder thatbecoming yourself is not a betrayal of love, but the truest way of honoring it. Read more