How the Worst Week of Your Life Can Lead You to Your Next Chapter with Bestselling Author Amy B. Scher
What do you do when the worst week of your life hands you your next chapter?
On this episode of The Midlife Makeover Show, Wendy Valentine welcomes back bestselling author — and her own book coach! — Amy B. Scher for a conversation about grief, healing, and hope. In 2011, Amy lost her dad and, five days later, her 22-year-old cousin to murder. Fifteen years on, that grief became her debut novel, The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon Rose: equal parts murder mystery, darkly funny coming-of-age story, and love letter to the people we’ve lost.
Amy and Wendy dig into why moving on doesn’t mean leaving our loved ones behind, how grief pushes us to ask the questions we avoid when life is running smoothly, the signs that our people are still with us, and why the very worst weeks of our lives can quietly line us up for what’s meant for us next.
What You’ll Learn
- Why moving on from grief means moving forward WITH meaning — not leaving your loved ones behind
- How grief pushes you to ask the questions you never ask when everything’s going smoothly
- Why a novel can heal in ways self-help can’t — “doing the work without doing the work”
- What real resilience means: unlike a palm tree, YOU choose what you bounce back to
- How our loved ones keep showing up — signs, synchronicities, and staying connected after loss
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