A book by CJ Infantino. Short essays and unsent letters from the year that broke me open and the years that came after.
Torn Pages From a Broken Heart is a brutally honest look at what it really means to be a widower — not a single parent, but a man whose soul was ripped in half.
Left to raise three children while learning to exist without his best friend, his north star, his everything.
Pieces you can finish in a sitting. Designed to meet you where you are without asking you to read for an hour.
Notes I wrote and never delivered — to my wife, to friends who disappeared, to the version of me that didn't make it through.
The shame, the rage, the boredom of grief. The friends who flinched. The advice that didn't help. The things I'm still figuring out.
If you want frameworks and accountability, that's coaching. The book is record, not method.
You'll find pieces of yourself in here and the relief of being seen.
For the third year, the fifth year, the tenth. The pages that say what other people stopped asking about.
If you don't know what to say or do, this is a way in. Read it like a translation.
The book doesn't promise relief — it documents the work of getting there. Coaching is where the work happens.
If the book gave you language for what you're carrying, coaching is where we give it structure and forward motion.
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