This book is about finding joy amidst grief and challenges that we encounter in our life. It is designed to help you find joy and lighten your load that weighs you down. It provides a number of ways and strategies to ease your pain and promotes healing and peace. It will help you design your options and ideas so that the next time you experience pain and trouble, you are ready to find new ways to respond to them just like how I coped with my grief with the experience of losing a husband due to cancer, near death experience of my eldest son and challenges encountered in the workplace and during the Covid 19 pandemic.

This book will benefit those who went through a similar experience or have undergone challenges, difficulties and problems such as loss of job, loss of a loved one, or even those who have retired with no definite plan or without somebody to share their life with.

May this book inspire you to look at the main source of joy that will transform you into becoming a better person.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr.Carmencita Mijares-Africa is a graduate of Maryknoll College and the University of the Philippines with teaching experience from various colleges and universities such as: Miriam College, De La Salle Lipa, Philippine Christian University, and Our Lady of Fatima University. She also held positions as Dean of the graduate school of the Pamantasan ng Makati, Dean of the College of Education and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Colegio de Sta.Teresa de Avila in Novaliches,Quezon City.

She also worked as Manager of the Human Resource Development Department of the Philippine Coconut Authority, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture.

She is presently the Sr. Vice President of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines and Friends Foundation Inc., Central Board Member of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines and National Adviser of the Catholic Women's League of the Philippines which are involved in the spiritual and economic uplirtment of the lives of the poor and the underprivileged. Her mission in life is to do God's will by loving Him and neighbors with faith and joy in her heart.