{"product_id":"how-to-lose-everything-a-memoir-pb","title":"How to Lose Everything A Memoir PB","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrista Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Lose Everything\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003edelves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEvoking Joan Didion’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand Rachel Cusk’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Life’s Work,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCouture explores the emotional and psychological experiences of motherhood, partnership and change. Deftly connecting the dots of sorrow, reprieve and hard-won hope,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Lose Everything\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003econtains the advice Couture is often asked for, as well as the words she wishes she could have heard many years ago. It is also an offering of kinship and understanding for anyone experiencing a loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrista Couture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster.  She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow or Never\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Next Chapter\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is a weekday afternoon host on 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto, ON.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eCree, queer, disabled, non-fiction writer, singer-songwriter, broadcaster, and filmmaker Christa Couture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Douglas \u0026 McIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48168976613539,"sku":"ccy1789924178875","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/how-to-lose-everything-a-memoir-pb_1.jpg?v=1789924183","url":"https:\/\/stretchfitq.shop\/products\/how-to-lose-everything-a-memoir-pb","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}