A Review of Elaine Mansfield’s Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief
(Larson Publications, www.larsonpublications.com , 2014). ISBN: 978-1-936012-72-5 A decade ago, I lost someone very close to me. My Aunt Annette was not only a favorite family member; she was a spiritual teacher who first instilled a love of myths and stories in me. At the time of her death, her husband, a counselor and spiritual teacher in his own right, suggested that I read Neil Donald Walsch’s Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends to help me process the profound sense of loss I was feeling. In the years since, I have turned to that book many times, as I have lost other family, and some close friends and mentors. I recommended it to those I knew who were dealing with losses of their own. Elaine Mansfield’s Leaning into Love , for the reasons that I will explore in this review, is the book that I will now turn to and recommend first in times of sickness and loss. First, because it is so personal. Mansfield, who was a nutritionist and personal trainer before her h...