This Week’s Letter

About the Second Firsts Letters

Christina Rasmussen is an acclaimed grief educator, bestselling author of Second Firsts (Hay House, 2013) Where Did You Go? (Harper One, 2018) and the upcoming book Invisible Loss (Sounds True, 2023)  She founded the Life Reentry Foundation in 2021 to make new beginnings accessible to everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, gender or ethnicity. While at the same time replacing an outdated model of grief and establishing a pathway out of what she coined the waiting room.

The Second Firsts Letters began 4 years after her 35-year-old husband died of stage 4 colon cancer. Her own devastating experience of grief catapulted her towards a long but necessary journey bridging the gap between grief and life.

What Readers are Saying About the Letters

It makes me feel awesome. Like you are talking to me. It gives me hope and courage to stay in this world. Two months ago the pain of grief and lonliness made me try to take my life. I am here to say that your messages keep me going and thinking. Thank you!

Susan Voigt Winkelman

My weekly message reminds me of my purpose and it keeps me focused on my goal to create a more fulfilling life for myself.

Joanne Spencer

It gave me hope when I lived in a world where I questioned if hope was still alive and faith in a better tomorrow.

Elizabeth Stanley

It made me feel less alone; hopefully, we all have a core group of support givers but, sometimes it takes a complete stranger to make you feel totally understood. And in that, we all become connected because we all have felt loss…and that is you Second Firsts.

Laura Robinson Thompson

Every Friday the Message in a Bottle is a life saver. When the sadness and feeling of loss becomes too much, Christina’s words buoy you up, and give you the strength to get through another day. Many nights I have sat alone in tears, wishing my beautiful Raven were there to tell me that everything was going to be ok. Unfortunately that’s not possible, but the Message in a Bottle allows you to hold on to one of the most powerful forces in the universe… hope. Christina is a very special soul, whose honesty and compassion overflows with every word. Get the Message in a Bottle. Please. You don’t have to be alone anymore.

Kenneth Clench
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