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Conversations is for anyone who has experienced turmoil, crisis, and loss, whether from death, a failed relationship, or the loss of their own integrity. This is a book for those who feel as if they are parked at a dead-end street and have no place to go. Conversations is a book to help find another way to live again, to love again, to hope again. It is for those who want to better understand how grief does not have to have the last word.

“If words alone could break a heart, inside the pages of this book are words that would shatter it, and yet, somehow, each of Dr. Stephenson’s poignant stories leave the reader uplifted, as if life might be fraught with pain, but the unstoppable human spirit can conquer all. Teenagers whose faith challenges the best of the clergy; A young boy, whose courage in the face of death equals that of the mightiest superhero; A widow, whose paralyzing grief is finally set free by compassion. Dr. Stephenson’s stories are the stories of our lives. They might resemble nothing that has actually transpired in our own lives, but every story and poem touches something the heart recognizes, resonates with the depth of understanding only the human spirit can know. This is the finest work of nonfiction, and if you read nothing else this year, I recommend you read Conversations.” – Dawn Munro, Author and Poet, Toronto, Canada