Every day, people suffer heartbreaks of some kind—bereavement, divorce, loss of a job—and seek to understand why these traumas have befallen them and how they'll make it through. In 2006, after building the wildly successful Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series with her husband Richard, Kristine Carlson faced her own shattering loss following Richard's death. Weaving together the stories of others' losses with her own, Carlson reveals a clear process of healing that goes far beyond ordinary prescriptions for getting through hard times—a life-altering map for navigating the heroic journey from loss to joy, one that results in a love affair with life.