"My soul did not break. It cracked wide open." At 3:33 on a Thursday afternoon, Julie's husband, Jim, took his last breath. As their sons each held one of his hands and Julie's hands rested on his knees, they let him go.
The shattering she experienced was raw. Real. And dismantling. It was a doorway to Live and Die Awake, the story of a great love, a sacred dying, and the unraveling and rebuilding that followed.
Read it with a pen in one hand and your heart in the other. Inside these pages, and in the companion library behind the QR codes included, you will find guided meditations, journaling prompts, and reflection pauses to walk beside you in your own season of love, loss, and becoming.
"Live and Die Awake is both a love story and a field guide. Read it slowly, with a pen in one hand and your heart in the other. Julie Wright Halbert writes from inside the doorway grief opens, and what she brings back is much-needed wisdom. The meditations are gentle. The practices are real. Keep it close.
"Read it with your heart open and your hand on your own life. Live and Die Awake is the rare grief book that meets you exactly where you are. Julie's guidance will walk with you for years."-CLAIRE BIDWELL SMITH, grief therapist and author of Conscious Grieving and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief
"Live and Die Awake is a blueprint, a balm, and the beginning of a global movement whose time has come."-SARA CONNELL, best-selling author of The Download and founder of Thought Leader Media
"Live and Die Awake is a must-read for all of us as we navigate this life and beyond."-TINA POWERS, evidential medium and author of Reporting for the Other Side