Author
Alua Arthur
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
May 2024
Today's Price
£14.52
Save 34%
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Briefly Perfectly Human
Today's Price £14.52
Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Author
Alua Arthur
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
May 2024
£14.52
Save 34%
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Briefly Perfectly Human
Today's Price £14.52
Add both to basket for £22.30 and save £9.69
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's preeminent death doula.
"By envisioning who I want to be on my deathbed, I invited life in." --Alua Arthur
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death doula, she's spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death--whether imminent or not--will breathe wild, new potential into your life.
Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air--or maybe not shown up at all--and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments--when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients' anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace.
This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death's periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d'état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her best friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life's calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life's painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you.
Your Hand in Mine is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care--what she calls "death embrace." Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. "Hold that truth in your mind," Alua says, "and wondrous things will begin to grow around it."
Author
Alua Arthur
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
May 2024
Weight
399g
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 22 mm
ISBN
9780063240032
ISBN-10
0063240033
Eden Code
6217033
More Information
Author/Creator: Alua Arthur
ISBN: 9780063240032
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: May 2024
Weight: 399g
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Eden Code: 6217033