And She Was Never the Same Again ~ Book Review

And She Was Never the Same Again is about you. It is about your family and your friends, everyone you've ever met, and all the strangers you have yet to meet. It takes you on a journey of gains and losses that stretch generations, cultures, identities, and decades of time.It awakens you to the inevitable and makes you look at things most people want to avoid seeing. It explores near-death experiences; medical, individual, and intergenerational trauma; the stigmatized death of a partner; perfectionism; athletics; first loves; and the gaping holes that become permanent fixtures within us when those we love the most die. You will feel, you will learn, you will grown, and you will never be the same again.

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Natasha Pryde Trajillo, Ph.D.

30 April 2024

Violet Echoes Press

Adult 18+ years

Non-Fiction

Multi-Generational Memoir

285 Pages

PG-13: discusses trauma, near-death experiences, grief

My Rating ~ 4 bites and a nibble

Also: 5 hankies

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This book has such a powerful message. We all go through grief at some point in our lives. Some go through it more than others. Everyone processes it differently and not one person has the same experiences. Because every person is different and every family is structured unlike any others.

Each chapter of this book has a traumatic story to tell and how it affects the author and her family. I took something out of each chapter even though my own family experience is very different from the author’s. The grief really hits home for me as I lost my dad 7 years ago and my mom just last year. After her death my brothers and I decided to sell the family farm - something that has been a part of my entire life as my parents bought it the year I was born. My brothers are older so they remember a time before the farm, but it was my whole world. I don’t know what the future holds, but with our last link to the previous generation all gone (my mother being the last of her 10 siblings to die), my brothers and I will have to figure out how to carry on. I know this - we will never be the same again.

Dr. Trujillo is a counseling and sport psychologist, consultant, educator, author, and human. Labels don’t make her better or worse-equipped to deal with inevitable grief throughout life. She’s passionate about the power of storytelling and wanted to illustrate nuanced ways we cope with grief. Like you, she’s had losses and decided risking vulnerability may encourage others to redefine relationships with loss to live more holistic and intentional lives. She hopes this limited collection of stories can build the realization that there’s no “right” way to grieve.

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"Dr. Trujillo has done an exceptional job of opening her life of grief and loss for her audience to experience. The intentional nature in which this book is written provides a welcome comfort of hope. Her words encourage her audience to look at those 'isms' we humans all own and instead of wanting to avoid seeing them, to look at them and learn how to navigate and accept; especially when it is too late to share those sentiments when you could have." —Feathered Quill Book Reviews

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