Laura Munson

Willa's Grove

You are invited to the rest of your life. Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they'd be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends. The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what? Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt--and that's where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa's Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.

In this poignant, wise, and often funny memoir, Munson recounts a period of months in which her faith in herself--and her marriage--was put to the test and when she realized that ultimately happiness is completely within her own control.

A Season of Unlikely Happiness

This is Not the Story You Think it Is--

By the time Laura Munson had turned 40, her life was not how she thought it would turn out. Career success had eluded her; her beloved father was no longer around to be her biggest cheerleader; and her husband wanted out of their marriage. Poignant, wise, and often exceedingly funny, this is the moment-by- moment memoir of a woman who decided to let go-in the midst of the emotional equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. It recounts what happened as Munson set out on her spiritual journey-and provides raw, powerful inspiration to anyone searching for peace in an utterly unpredictable world.

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is...

Op een dag hoort Laura Munson haar man zeggen dat hij niet meer van haar houdt. Laura wil het niet geloven en weigert te aanvaarden dat een scheiding onvermijdelijk is. Haar man lijkt ten prooi gevallen aan een midlife crises en ziet geen andere weg dan zijn huwelijk met Laura en zijn gezin te ontvluchten. Maar Laura legt zich niet bij de situatie neer en geeft haar man alle ruimte die hij nodig heeft om zichzelf weer terug te vinden, zes maanden lang. Laura besluit gewoon door te gaan met haar leven en haar gezin. En hoe moeilijk ze het ook vindt om niet te weten of ze er goed aan doet haar man los te laten, ze kiest voor haar eigen geluk.

Mijn seizoen van ongewoon geluk

You are invited to the rest of your life. Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends. The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what? Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt—and that’s where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa’s Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.

Willa’s Grove

This controversial true story about how a woman saved her marriage has already caused a media storm, forcing the New York Times to shut down their comments site. Every woman will HAVE to read this to have an opinion about it. ′ "I DON′t LOVE YOU ANY MORE. I′M NOt SURE I EVER DID." His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. And once I recovered and composed myself, I managed to say, "I don′t buy it." Because I didn′t. He drew back in surprise. Apparently he′d expected me to burst into tears, to rage at him, to threaten him with a custody battle. Or beg him to change his mind ... I really wanted to fight. to rage. to cry. But I didn′t. Instead, a shroud of calm enveloped me ... You see, I′d recently committed to a non-negotiable understanding with myself. I′d committed to "the End of Suffering". I′d decided to take responsibility for my own happiness. And I mean all of it.′ When Laura Munson′s essay about how she dealt with this heartbreaking pronouncement from her husband of 20 years appeared in the New York times it created a firestorm. the No.1 read, emailed and searched story of the day forced the times to shut down their comments site. Readers sent it to their friends, therapists gave it to patients, ministers read it to congregations, women everywhere argued about it. Her website went from 4 readers to 4000 in a day, then 1500 a day a week later. this is the memoir that spawned the column. Raw, searingly honest, poignant, funny and often enraging, this powerful and timely story is the one book every woman should read this year.

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