On my right side

Anna Hentilä Wretling

Softcover with flap, 192 pages

On October 7, 2020, he took his last breath. While I sat holding him and with his forehead against mine, his soul disappeared from his body.

How do you get back up after the unthinkable happens? How do you move on after your soulmate has taken their last breath and left this earth? Do you do what society says and let others decide how you should grieve, or do you look inward, to your soul, and let it lead the way after the initial shock has subsided and the ego has screamed out loud?

The fact is that death does not exist, not for the soul. The light of the soul burns forever, and the souls who have left the earth and are all around us want nothing more than to help us. They want to guide us and make us realize that everything we seek in various forms here on earth is already inside all of us. We just need to step away from our egos and instead live through the soul – the amazing, loving soul that already knows where we are going.

Quote from the book:

"Companies and authorities should have completely different rules for an estate. It should be very easy for someone who has just gone through a trauma to just change the name on a subscription, end things or transfer insurance. If something were to go wrong because you might not really be thinking and functioning the way you should in the weeks after a death, it should be very easy to correct that mistake."

Instead, it's a jungle that you're expected to know everything about. I'd never been widowed before and didn't actually have the map I needed to find my way around here. Yet all the authorities and companies expected me to have both the knowledge and the energy to deal with this just a couple of weeks after Risto disappeared."

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