This Isn't the Story I Wanted: Grieving the Life You Lost and Trusting the God Who Stays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780825453373)

Life is unpredictable, and when the inevitable losses happen, women often fall into the trap of minimizing the pain they experience because it feels unworthy to name as grief. They measure their loss against death and conclude it does not count, leaving no space to process or heal.

Nicole Langman writes to these women and says loss should never be minimized. When the future is ripped out of their hands, women need a gentle voice to guide them through their feelings--a voice with biblical wisdom, tender understanding, and a therapeutic approach. This Isn't the Story I Wanted offers women practical support, faith-based hope, and guidance from a professional who has traveled the path of non-death grief. Nicole validates women's pain and demonstrates how God's presence can transform the valley of grief into a journey of healing and growth.

Designed with the grieving reader in mind, the book is made up of short, stand-alone, devotional-style chapters that integrate descriptive storytelling and therapy-based reframing techniques to help readers find hope and freedom in their pain. The jagged edges of unwanted goodbyes and brokenhearted living are painful, and real.