No one who lives and loves will be immune to grief and loss. Yet while this experience is universal, many who experience the trauma of grief are left feeling alone and even alienated. People care and want to help, but how? Michele Neff Hernandez experienced this in 2005 when her thirty-nine-year-old husband died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Michele set out to find other widowed people, intent on learning what they knew about being widowed. What she discovered was the healing power of shared, expressed experience.