Grieving mother publishes book on coping with loss

WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI) – If you’ve ever lost a child or parent, you know the pain of one local woman.

She’s written a book to help others cope.

“When he died, something happened to me, and I didn’t know if I was going to be able to get up. But I came back, out of depression and I came back new and much better than I am and much better than I was before,” said author Linda Raleigh Lane.

Lane battled depression for seven years after her son Benjamin Daniel Lane died in a car accident. Writing her new book “Healed: My Journey” is what got her through.

“This book was a part of the healing process. As I began to write, I began to heal from the inside, myself. So, it was very beautiful for me,” said Lane.

Lane says the book helped her ask God important questions like how she was going to get past such a tragedy.

“I asked the questions, and he answered them! It was just revealed to me that I should let other people know how I handle situations and that would help them also,” said Lane.

Friends of the author say they are shocked by the contents of the book.

“She writes from a very unique perspective in that she feels pain or she felt pain and she was able to write that pain on pages. She’s able now to help others through the pain that she experienced in her past life, so she writes from a very good perspective,” said Living Manna Church Pastor R. H. Brown.

Overall, those behind the book say the goal is to help others who may be experiencing loss.

“I hope that they can get beyond the grief. There are so many people who are affected by grief and losing a child, losing a loved one, a brother or sister. This book is another way to look at getting help, and overcoming all of those hard obstacles that we face in life,” said publisher Sherry Hathorn.

“They don’t have to stay depressed. God can move them out of the depression, out of the place that they’re in, away from the hurt and the pain and where you get to thinking that this is it. God can bring happiness and joy even out of death, and I learned that,” said Lane.

“Healed: My Journey” is available on Lane’s website today.

Later next week it will be available for purchase on Amazon.