“Option B: Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy” by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

I have been noodling on this book for a few months, trying to figure out the right way to talk about. This is what I came up with: My mom and I were in London this past summer to see Wimbledon, and we met a nice waiter at the Savoy Hotel who also followed tennis. We were talking to him one evening about the event and he said, “You have been to Wimbledon before?” And my mom said, “Oh yes, this is our third time. We just leave our husbands behind in California and come here together.” I paused. Why had she said that? Dad had died a year earlier. Did she forget? Was she lost? Was she confused? And then it hit me: Grief is exhausting and for mom to be a widow 24/7 was weighing on her. So I realized that just for a night, just for one passing conversation with a waiter at the Savoy Hotel, Barbara Marshall  wanted to be herself, just a regular wife, not a widow. That is the biggest lesson to realize about grief, it is heavy, exhausting and it hurts like nothing else. But does it last forever? No. Does it get easier to hold? Yes. How does that happen? Read “Option B: Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy,” by Sheryl Sandberg about the loss of her husband David Goldberg in May 2015 from a traumatic brain injury while vacationing in Mexico. Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, was left hugging two young children, flanked by her own supportive parents, and many grieving friends and family members. With the assistance of friend and psychologist Adam Grant, Sandberg leaned into own grief and loss head on, and now she wants to help others do the same. This book is heartbreaking, poignant, inspirational, instructional, and a book everyone should have on the family bookshelf. When we reach a certain age, death and grief are inevitable. Why not have a book to help guide you back toward recovery and joy on hand, at the ready? To purchase this book on Amazon click here.