It All Belongs: Love, Loss, & Learning To Live Again

For Judy Smoot - artist, spiritual director, expressive arts teacher, retreat facilitator, and innovator of a non-profit organization devoted to supporting people with chronic disease - receiving her own devastating diagnosis of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) meant putting the spiritual practices she taught so many others to the ultimate, personal test. Living fully into her own mortality, Judy models meeting the end of life with grace, humor, humility, courage, and the ultimate hope of our being. But that's only half the story. Following Judy's death, readers are invited to journey with Roy, Judy's husband of nearly 40 years, as he struggles to embrace the twin realities of love and grief. With rare vulnerability and full transparency, Roy offers readers a window into his struggle to learn the rhythms of this bittersweet dance. From observing his day-to-day realities, to joining his search for meaning, to celebrating with him as he finds his new place in the world, Roy takes readers on a voyage that welcomes the full gamut of emotional and geographical landscapes. From the deep introspection of a long road trip out west to a spiritual quest to Iona, Scotland, Roy welcomes readers to travel with him on the path through unthinkable darkness to a triumphant return to full and abundant life. Woven into both sides of this beautiful, heartbreaking, and awe-inspiring narrative laced with art and poetry readers will discover spiritual tools and practices to equip them and their loved ones to find the opportunities for healing and wholeness within their own inevitable end-of-life realities. In this unique pairing of perspectives, It All Belongs brings hands-on help for navigating any unwanted journey to embrace the love, beauty, light, and joy quietly tucked inside.

• | Author: Judy Smoot|Roy Smoot|Melinda Folse
• | Publisher: Sparkpoint Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 299 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 098269606X
• | ISBN-13: 9780982696064