For the Love of Cancer

Healing from the loss of a loved one can be a little less painful with reassurance from someone who has traveled that same path. For the Love of Cancer: A passionate pursuit to understand life, death, and spirituality was born from the author’s personal journey as her husband’s cancer caregiver and her immense grief from his untimely death in a motorcycle accident. In this book, Julie Davis Tittenhofer shares the most intimate details of her journey from falling in love with her husband to her discovery of spirituality and faith in God. In her quest to understand why bad things happen to good people, she discovers her purpose in life and passionately pursues it. Her growing faith and belief in life after death grew out of the otherwise inexplicable spiritual experiences that occurred following her husband’s death. This book offers understanding to those suffering from grief or depression while also providing a healing pathway for the reader to follow. The final chapter “Lessons Learned” provides quick tips for dealing with the loss of a loved one that can be referenced throughout the grieving process without having to revisit the book in it’s entirety.

Healing from the loss of a loved one can be a little less painful with reassurance from someone who has traveled the same path. For the Love of Cancer: A passionate pursuit to understand life, death, and spirituality was born from the author’s personal journey as her husband’s caregiver during his battle with cancer and her immense grief when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. In this book, Julie Davis Tittenhofer shares the most intimate details from the beginning of their relationship to the depression that followed his untimely death and her ultimate discovery of spirituality and faith in God. The book begins with the dramatic story of falling in love, becoming husband and wife, and almost immediately facing the diagnosis of advanced colon cancer. As the author reflects on their experience, she recalls how they learned to laugh at cancer and even to appreciate it, somehow. In her quest to understand why bad things happen to good people, Julie Davis Tittenhofer writes of her experiences of communicating with “the other side” and her resulting belief in God, angels, and Heaven. Through this discovery, she learns her God-given purpose in life and shares her story of passionately pursuing that purpose. While the author neither proclaims expertise in religion nor references scripture, she explains how she discovered God and built a relationship with Him. Her life-changing discovery and her belief in life after death came about through the unusual and captivating spiritual experiences that occurred following her husband’s death. Tapping into her personal journey, the author provides understanding for those suffering from grief or depression, while at the same time giving the reader a healing pathway to follow. In the final chapter “Lessons Learned” the author provides quick tips for dealing with the loss of a loved one that can be referenced throughout the grieving process without having to revisit the book in its entirety.

Julie Davis Tittenhofer is a former lawyer, healthcare administrator, and the founder and president of Inspirit-Widowed Young Support Group, Inc. As her husband’s caregiver through a long battle with colon cancer and ultimate loss in a tragic accident, Julie has journeyed through life, love, death, grief, and spirituality. A member of the Georgia Bar Association and the American Bar Association, Julie graduated from Mercer University School of Law and went on to practice civil litigation before returning to work in healthcare. Today, she spends much of her time focused on helping young widows and widowers manage and heal from their grief while they discover their purpose in life.