ELLYN WOLFE
Author, Life Coach, Editor
Writer’s Digest Magazine reviews Grateful for the Color Blue: Surviving the Loss of an Adult Child
“5 stars - Outstanding. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Excellent work here.”
Grateful for the Color Blue:
Surviving the Loss of an Adult Child
Parents aren’t supposed to outlive their children, but they do. Ellyn Wolfe’s journey through hell and out the other side begins with a phone call from 3,000 miles away, “Mom, I have cancer.”
A memoir of loss and survival, optimism and coping strategies, estrangement and reconnection, Grateful for the Color Blue is a compassionate outreach to anyone who has lived through loss and needs to know they are not alone.
Beautifully written with heart-wrenching intensity, diversionary escapes into nature, and revelations about intuition and mindfulness that yield startling results, this memoir reads like a page-turner novel.
Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Color-Blue-Surviving-Adult/dp/1734997109/
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Reviews: Grateful for the Color Blue
Writer's Digest Magazine 5 rating - Outstanding
The author has the energy of someone who has a lot to say and holds tight to her edges in discerning where she goes with her memories. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Well done.
The words ‘I love you’ rise from a dusty place and pulse with emotion. Grief can pull humanity out of people, and I’m teary remembering this beautiful scene. ‘I’m fighting, I’m fighting’ unleashed whatever restraint this reader had with sadness and tears.
We feel for the author’s collection of losses. Excellent work here.
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A Stellar Memoir
This may be the most authentic-feeling memoir I’ve ever read. Ellyn Wolfe chronicles her life from her son Rob’s terrifying diagnosis through the present day. Beautifully written, her memories are as clear as if it were unfolding in the present. In Grateful, we see a thoughtful, sensitive woman relearning how to live in a world where grief will never leave, only recede.
Struggling with heartache, she tries, and tries again, to reason with her life and arrive at new ways of seeing. This is the true value of any memoir, and Ellyn delivers, taking us through the unimaginable, sharing her journey, showing us how she survived, and thus offering a template. A lovely portrayal of the resiliency of the human spirit. - Lynne M. Spreen - Author Dakota Blues, Key Largo Blues, Middle-Aged Crazy
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Everyone Who Has Lost Someone Dear Should Read This Book
Ellyn Wolfe has captured the agony of losing a loved one with words that will touch you deeply. Her experience dealing with the loss of her son to cancer when he was only in his early 30s is heartbreaking, but she has been willing to share with readers the depths of the roller coaster of emotions she endured in an incredibly touching and compelling style. I wish this book had been there when I lost my sister to a brain tumor at age 34. It would have been such a comfort, and I can't recommend Grateful For The Color Blue highly enough. - Suzanne Stevenson
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Could Not Put This Book Down!
I absolutely loved this book. Ellyn is real, honest, and authentic about the loss of her son. She takes us through her life at her most vulnerable time and does not hold back. This is a beautiful story about a mothers love for her son. Any one who has ever loved, can connect with this story. SO well done!!!
- Gail, Grief therapist
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From Actor Rich Speight, Jr.
Watching cancer take my buddy Rob felt like getting hit by a train in slow motion. In this heartfelt memoir, Rob’s mother Ellyn bravely recounts her journey through her son’s sickness and death in a way that only someone who has birthed and buried one of their own can. Her pain, process, and power to find meaning in the darkest of experiences make this an important read.
- Richard Speight, Jr - Actor, Writer, Director, Band of Brothers, Jerico, Supernatural, et al
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Beautiful, Heartwarming, and Heartbreaking
Ellyn has the most beautiful way of telling her very difficult journey of losing her son. I was absolutely touched by every page, so many emotions and many tears! I would highly recommend this incredible book to anyone, especially to those who have suffered such a tremendous loss. It’s heart breaking and heartwarming! - Sharon Pfrang
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Unable to put it down
In Grateful for the Color Blue, Ellyn Wolfe tells of her odyssey through Hell and back; from her son's diagnosis through her struggle to reenter life following his death, to a fulfilling new life.
As a therapist, this is not the sort of story I would usually chose for bedtime reading, but I assure the reader this is anything but a trudge through a swamp of morose musings. I was riveted from the first page by the courage, compassion and humor that permeates every line of this fascinating account.
Set in New England and Los Angeles, Wolfe transports the reader by vivid word pictures from coast to coast, from season to season, with the unobtrusive skill of a talented writer. Thoroughly rewarding read.
- Seamus O’Connor - Therapist, Author, Bitter Oranges
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You Are Now A Sister
My 45 year old son lost his battle with pancreatic cancer one week ago. I was so desperately searching for something to help with the ache in my heart/soul. Thank you for writing this. You are now my sister in this horrible group of grieving Moms. -Karen