John has Written and Published Two Different Books
Transforming Your Life after Loss – Finding Your Way To Peace, Joy & Happiness
In 2019, John lost his wife of 37 years to cancer after a 3-month battle from her diagnosis to her death in their home. His first book, “Transforming Your Life after Loss – Finding Your Way To Peace, Joy & Happiness” was born out of the frustration he felt at the lack of any true resources for dealing with grief and loss. The ones he found were either a re-hash of old content like the “5 stages of grief”, (because grief doesn’t come in neat little stages; it’s messy, brutal, and overwhelming), or they were purely focused on grief itself, and not on grief recovery.
After his grief counselor told him during his first session with her that she was there to “be a witness to his pain”, John knew he had to do something different. He didn’t need witnesses, he needed a way to get out of the pain. He decided to do a deep dive into grief; into its effects and impacts; and into what grief really is, (and it’s not what you’ve been told.)
John personally used what he discovered; the steps, the concepts, and the ideas which are detailed in the book, to successfully begin his personal grief recovery process. At that point, he decided to write the book so others, too, could benefit from what he discovered.
The book is written as both a primer and as a framework; as a “how-to” for navigating loss and grief effectively. It will help those who are lost in the throes of catastrophic grief, get back into life, and into living. To show them how to go from feeling utterly lost in despair and sadness – which is where he was – into true peace, joy, and happiness, which is where he is today. The book tells the tale of his loss, but only as the backdrop; the true focus of it is on recovery from grief and restoration.
Have The Life You REALLY Want – Instead of the One You’re Stuck In Now!
After writing his first book on loss and grief, it struck John that while dealing with those things is critically important, especially in those moments, it’s also not the end-goal. Navigating loss and grief is only a part of the bigger picture.
It’s a fact that most people feel stuck in one or more areas of their lives. There’s something they’re either not happy with, or something they want more of. Or they know there’s “more” for them, but they’re not sure what that means, or how to access it.
What people truly want, is to live a life that they truly want. They don’t want to feel stuck, unsatisfied, or confused about what to do or how to do it.
This book answers those questions and takes people out of the fog of confusion into the bright light of clarity. This is not some type of cookie-cutter, formulaic system, but is instead, a systematic framework which allows someone to first discover what the life they really want looks like, and second, shows them how to create their individual path to getting it.
These are the same steps that John personally uses, and teaches others to use, to do what the book title says: Have a life they really want!
The book is written as both a primer and as a framework. It’s a “how-to” for first discovering – then creating – the life someone really wants to have. It’s for those who know there’s more for them, but aren’t quite sure what that means, or how to get there. This book answers both questions.
“Transforming Your Life After Loss:
Finding Your Way To Peace, Joy And Happiness”
is more than a book, and it’s more than just a “mindset”. It’s actually a lifestyle.
Have the Life You Really Want isn’t just another self-help guide. It’s not about hustling harder, toxic positivity, or another journaling routine.
This is your invitation to step into a whole new way of living—one that’s aligned, fulfilling, and finally yours.
Meet the Author: John Craft
I grew up in the Midwest, in the heart of America, in a small town in the 1960’s and 70’s.
And yes, it was a small town exactly like most small towns back then. Life was centered around family, the kids walked to school, and since there were no video-games, cell phones, or personal computers, they played outside without supervision until dark or dinnertime — whichever came first.
People went to Friday night football and basketball games during those seasons, hung out at home doing chores on weekends, went to church on Sundays, then had big family dinners afterwards consisting of either pot roast or fried chicken and on rare special occasions, mouth-watering ham loaf!
To say my childhood was sheltered from the world and what it was really like, would be an understatement of the highest order.
At the age of seventeen, I joined the United States Marine Corps and saw the world. Literally. For someone who’s been an avid reader since childhood, of spy novels especially, and who possesses a vivid imagination, when I saw the real world, and the settings I’d read about for years, this was an eye-opening experience. It was also the beginning of becoming jaded and shaded about how I saw the world.
My “mindset” for years after, was about gaining what I could and about thinking I didn’t deserve what I got or had. I lived in a state of constant fear of loss and focused more on that, instead of seeking opportunity.
I didn’t have an expansive mindset or a happy one; it was always a mindset based in fear, of what was going to happen next; of waiting for the other shoe to drop. In other words, what will I lose now? It affected me, my family, what few friends I had — in short — it affected my entire life.
The last 13-plus years have helped me? Forced me, perhaps? To change how I view and approach my life; to re-shape how I see the world, and about how I view loss and its aftermath. All that, including a little history of what happened, is covered inside the book, so I won’t go into it here.
What I will say here is that my approach, my attitude, (most of the time), along with my very way of life and being are now expansive instead of contracted and restrictive. I don’t have a “mindset” anymore; I have a beautiful, vibrant, fun, full and exciting life.
Instead of focusing on fear and loss, I focus on recovery and restoration, and on helping people create lives they really want; including navigating loss and grief so they aren’t frozen in place.
That said, I’ve also always seen life — mine and others — as stories; and I’m living a best-seller.
I hope you will too.