Magnificent, profoundly moving . . . gives encouragement and solace to all.Elaine Mansfield's book with her extraordinary husband through sickness, death, and then on to grief and renewal is heart-breaking and healing at the same time. It is a spiritual as well as an emotional journey, a good companion, a beautifully written story of a woman's journey through bereavement.This book will touch your heart and inform your understanding of love, loss and grief.An instructive guidebook for readers confronting their own losses. . . . Deeply spiritual without being preachy, a comforting guide to mourning for readers of any stripe.Elaine Mansfield knows far more than most people about love and loss, and she tells it with admirable honesty and clarity. Leaning into Love is a manual for healing that offers us the emotional and spiritual tools needed to grow and even flourish through life’s deepest crises. A powerful account of the journey of grief. Reading this beautiful memoir of love and loss and triumph felt to me like a sacred journey into the very heart and soul of the courageous woman who writes it. With finely crafted, poignant as well as powerful prose, Elaine Mansfield tells the moving and inspirational story of her husband’s valiant battle with a rare form of incurable cancer and her own emotional struggles to support him throughout their shared ordeal. . . . Overall this is an uplifting story of courage, hope, determination and triumph—and a very compelling relCY