Magnificent, profoundly moving . . . gives encouragement and solace to all.

– Naomi Shihab Nye

Elaine Mansfield's book with her extraordinary husband through sickness, death, and then on to grief and renewal is heart-breaking and healing at the same time. It is a spiritual as well as an emotional journey, a good companion, a beautifully written story of a woman's journey through bereavement.

– Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Feeding your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict and Women of Wisdom

This book will touch your heart and inform your understanding of love, loss and grief.

– Nina Miller, founder, Hospicare of Tompkins County

An instructive guidebook for readers confronting their own losses. . . . Deeply spiritual without being preachy, a comforting guide to mourning for readers of any stripe.

– Kirkus Reviews

Elaine Mansfield knows far more than most people about love and loss, and she tells it with admirable honesty and clarity.

– Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Not only a touching and courageous memoir about love, illness, death and grief, Elaine Mansfield’s Leaning into Love is a manual for healing that offers us the emotional and spiritual tools needed to grow and even flourish through life’s deepest crises.

– Dale Borglum, Living/Dying Project

A powerful account of the journey of grief.

– Roshi Joan Halifax, abbot, Upaya Zen Center; author of Being with Dying

Reading this beautiful memoir of love and loss and triumph felt to me like a sacred journey into the very heart and soul of the courageous woman who writes it. With finely crafted, poignant as well as powerful prose, Elaine Mansfield tells the moving and inspirational story of her husband’s valiant battle with a rare form of incurable cancer and her own emotional struggles to support him throughout their shared ordeal. . . . Overall this is an uplifting story of courage, hope, determination and triumph—and a very compelling read. Highly recommended!

– Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC; nationally certified grief counselor, bereavement counselor, moderator for online Grief Healing Discussion Groups, Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix; author of Finding Your Way through Grief: A Guide for the First Year.

Some books are so original they could only have been written by one person. This is one of them. If you want to know what real love looks like, read this page-turning testament to the exquisite beauty and tragedy of life, death and rebirth. You won’t come away unchanged. Mansfield is a masterful storyteller whose prose is as spare and meaningful as poetry and whose integrity is as intrepid and inspiring as the most magnificent heroine or goddess.

– Jean Benedict Raffa, author of Healing the Sacred Divide

This is a book which captures the heart from page one and continues to hold us even when we must put it down, and so it mirrors the undying connection between Elaine and her beloved Vic.

– Patricia Campbell Carlson, executive Director, A Network for Grateful Living