How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live: (A Spiritual Memoir)

Loss can either break you open or break you down-your choice. If you choose to allow it to break you open, you can discover who you truly were meant to be before time and the world made you forget. How Learning to Say Good-bye Taught Me How to Live is a narrative journal of the many spiritual lessons and gifts I received during a period of tremendous loss in my life and how they were put to the test during my best friend's battle with cancer. It chronicles the close friendship we shared during this traumatic time and how we worked to stay conscious and move forward with our inner growth despite our pain. When we are asked to say goodbye to what was, we are offered an opportunity to experience what can be-if we do the work. Each chapter highlights the inner battles and the gifts revealed during difficult times. The lessons include issues of control, judgment, needing to be right, forgiveness, self-love, receiving, and the power of our beliefs. The gifts include partnership with your Higher Self, true intimacy, the power of play and laughter, faith and patience, angel whispers, co-creating, and much more. At the end of each chapter is a list of questions and thoughts that aided me to go deeper with the work.

Joffre is a Spiritual Author, an award-winning filmmaker, and the host of a monthly Podcast, Spiritual CommonSense on Healthylife. Reaching approximately 410,000 listeners and consistently ranking among the network's Top 10 programs, her work encourages audiences to embrace practical spirituality, authentic love, and everyday wisdom that transforms lives. Her first book, How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, was inspired by the profound journey of walking beside her best friend through a courageous battle with breast cancer. What began as a deeply personal exploration of grief became a testament to resilience, spiritual awakening, and the enduring power of love. Before becoming an author, Joffre built a diverse career in the arts and media. She spent most of her adult life in New York City as a theatre actress and producer, appearing in and producing several Off-Broadway plays. An avid student of spiritual literature and techniques since the early 1980s, she taught herself filmmaking and founded Sweet Moon Pictures Production Company back in the 1990's. She wrote, produced, and directed two independent films with spiritual themes or overtones: Out of the Blue (1995) and Best Wishes (2002; winner of the "Spirit of the West Award"). Before moving back to Texas to care for her dying mother, she worked as a senior producer and director for a media broadcast Production Company in New York City for over fifteen years. Joffre's second book, The Heart of the Matter (A Workbook and Guide to Finding Your Way Back to Self-love), grew from her own journey of healing old wounds, challenging long-held beliefs, and discovering authentic self-love. After reading her first book, readers asked her how she found her self-love. Unsure how she found it, she embarked on a deeper search that ultimately revealed what she believes are the three essential components of authentic self-love. The Heart of the Matter shares that journey. Joiffre's mission is to spread self-love.