Into the Silence:the Power of Stillness

Product Description I was by her hospital bed when the surgeon gave her a prognosis of  "....about a year."As he left her side, Mother turned to me and, looking directly into my eyes, she reached gently for my hand and set in motion what was to come, by saying, with such simplicity, "Judith, I'm going to need your help."  And thus the fulfullment of my promise began. So begins the remarkable journey of two women.Judith Ashley had long ago emigrated from England to the United States. Her mother, Enid, still lived in Great Britain and was now dying of cancer of the bowel and liver. Separated by distance for virtually thirty years, Judith traveled back to England to fulfill a promise made two decades earlier—to be the primary caregiver throughout her mother’s last weeks of life.In more than fifty letters written to her husband living six thousand miles away, Ashley recounts—with love and unflinching candor—the conscious way in which her mother approached the last year of her life with dignity, intimacy, and grace.The letters also illustrate how Ashley navigated her way through her own chattering thoughts and roller-coaster emotions to help her have access to an inner source of strength, and keep her promise the way in which her mother needed her to keep it. A moving testament to the strong bond between mother and daughter, Into the Silence captures the challenges of living with dying, for all family members, and for this remarkable woman who faced her own death with such interest and courage. About the Author Judith M. Ashley enjoyed a twenty-five-year career as a human resources consultant for an American high-tech corporation working in Malaysia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. She lives in New England with her husband, HB, with whom she continues to weave a life of joy.
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