About the Book

Are you feeling hopeless because you have lost someone close to you?  Do you need to feel someone else understands your loss?  Do you wish your other family members would respond and help in a different way?  Do you pray your heart will heal and you will find peace again?  If you answer yes to these questions then When Every Day Matters is the book for you.

There are moments in each of our lives when we think we will never recover: the death of a loved one, a devastating diagnosis, a divorce, the loss of our dreams, a catastrophic loss of our home or our livelihood.  Then there is a moment in life when we don’t care if we recover: when our child is taken from this world by accident, natural disaster, illness, violence, a drunk driver, suicide or war.  On that day it is only by the Grace of God that our warm feet hit the cold floor of reality.

In her powerful and intimate memoir, When Every Day Matters: A Mother’s Memoir on Love, Loss and LifeMary Jane Hurley Brant writes to her beautiful daughter Katie, a formidable, courageous and wise young woman who for 10 years lived with a brain tumor.  And while she left her earthly life at 28 years of age, Katie Brant accomplished a hundred lifetimes of good.

In this transforming and deeply spiritual book, MJ, a psychotherapist and grief specialist for 29 years, speaks candidly about the family issues that surround these difficult times.  She talks about what a marriage must accomplish to meet the demands of grief and loss.  She also speaks lovingly to her beloved Katie about the authenticity it takes to live our own life and not someone else’s idea of what our life should be.  Mary Jane literally takes you the reader by the hand into her personal journey as a companion.  She brings home the definition of making choices to make your life meaningful.  Her book will console you and give you hope. 

We all know that after a devastating loss the journey to recovery is a lonely one, but you don’t have to take it alone.  Let Mary Jane Hurley Brant lead you out of the darkness of life’s most bewildering experiences and into the light of day.  Let her words, reflections and guidance of When Every Day Matters surround your heart, soul, body and mind.  Let someone who understands that you cannot “get over it” until you “go through it” be your guide to the other side of life.

Sarah Ban Breathnath’s Simple Abundance Press is publisher of this sensitive, psychological, transcendent and healing book.  Sarah believes When Every Day Matters will become the classic book on grief and finding hope again.

Foreign rights have been contracted with St. Paul Society, also known as St. Pauls and Better Yourself books, Mumbai, India for distribution in Africa, India, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Malaysia.