Wendy Saffel, NEVER REALLY LEFT

Wendy Saffel launches her book Never Really Left: Grief, Healing, and a Mother’s Unexpected Relationship with Her Departed Son. Drawing on traditional and non-traditional spiritual beliefs, the growing body of work on the survival of consciousness, and what quantum physics tells us about the nature of reality, Never Really Left shares a wealth of research, experience, and hope for all those who have lost the ones they love. For Wendy, walking the path through grief and toward understanding led her to tremendous healing and a new paradigm of living—where joy can coexist with grief.

Faced with an incomprehensible loss, one mother’s experiences forced her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about life and death—and open her heart to a new reality.

When Wendy Jordan Saffel lost her twenty-year-old son, Hugh, she discovered that grief is a well without a bottom. But even as she felt herself sinking into despair, she was offered an unexpected lifeline—one that changed her perception of the world forever.

A rational thinker, Wendy’s life was filled with facts—the tangible and the measurable. That is, until she began experiencing profound spiritual con- nections with her son shortly after his passing. These initial moments of contact propelled her on a years-long journey to understand what happens when we die, what comprises the afterlife, and how a relationship with our lost loved ones can persist in ways that are real, true, beautiful, and sacred.

“Packed with insights, the journey of a mother who is afforded unusual opportunities to experience her son in a different way . . . is a powerful saga. It deserves widespread attention and delivers thought-provoking moments of realization and recovery for readers, libraries, and book clubs alike.” —Midwest Book Review

Wendy Jordan Saffel authored Never Really Left, her first book—and one she never expected to write. She is the Seattle group co-leader for Helping Parents Heal, an international organization dedicated to assisting parents whose children have passed. She so hopes that the story of her journey to healing, happiness, and purpose can help those who grieve the loss of ones they love. She has worked in marketing for arts and tech for decades, and her writings on holistic healthcare and arts festivals have appeared in multiple publications. Wendy is a longtime Seattle resident.

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