📖 Standing Beside Him: A Guide for Partners & Spouses
A practical, compassionate guide for partners and spouses navigating prostate cancer together.
When your partner is diagnosed with prostate cancer, it can feel like the ground drops out from under you. Standing Beside Him was written for the partner or spouse standing beside the patient. It combines practical guidance, caregiver tools, worksheets, reflections, and real experiences to help you navigate diagnosis, treatment, side effects, changing roles, and life after treatment.
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📬 Formats & Timing
📬 Available in paperback and eBook. Audiobook planned.
📚 Two Companion Books for Different Parts of the Journey
These books were written for different seasons of life, but both grew from the same place: wanting partners and caregivers to feel less alone and better supported.
📖 Standing Beside Him: A Partners/Spouses Guide
For the caregiving years
Standing Beside Him is for partners and spouses navigating prostate cancer alongside someone they love, from diagnosis and treatment through recovery and survivorship.
Inside, you’ll find:
• Guidance through diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship
• Practical worksheets and caregiver tools
• Support for fear, intimacy changes, exhaustion, and daily caregiving
• Real stories and reflections from partners and spouses
This book is for the season of asking:
“How do we get through this together?”
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🕊️ Orphaned Partners: A Gentle Guide for Widows and Widowers After Caregiving
For life after caregiving and loss
When caregiving ends because the person you love has died, the role that shaped so much of your daily life ends too. You may be grieving the person you lost while also trying to understand who you are and how to build a life that now looks very different.
Orphaned Partners was written for this part of the journey. It is a gentle companion for widows and widowers learning to live with grief while slowly finding their way forward.
Inside, you’ll find:
• Reflections on grief and identity after caregiving
• Stories grounded in ordinary daily life
• Gentle guidance for rebuilding routines and caring for yourself
• Practical support for navigating life after loss
This book is for the season of asking:
“Who am I now, and how do I keep going?”
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Not Sure Where to Begin?
If you are navigating prostate cancer alongside your partner or spouse, start with Standing Beside Him.
If your partner or spouse has died and you are learning how to live after caregiving and loss, begin with Orphaned Partners.
🌻 Why I Wrote These Books
When my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I went looking for a guide written for partners and spouses. I wanted something that acknowledged the fear, exhaustion, practical responsibility, and quiet loneliness that can come with caring for someone you love. Most of all, I wanted something that spoke directly to the person standing beside the patient.
I could not find the book I needed, so I started writing.
Standing Beside Him grew out of our experience with prostate cancer. It became the book I wish I had during appointments, treatment decisions, long evenings at home, and all the moments that were harder and more complicated than I expected. It brings together practical tools, worksheets, reflections, and caregiver experiences to help partners and spouses feel more prepared and less alone.
As I continued writing and listening to other caregivers and partners, I realized there was another part of the caregiving experience that needed its own voice: what happens when caregiving ends because the person you love has died.
That became Orphaned Partners.
Grief after caregiving brings its own questions. You are grieving the person you lost, but you may also be trying to understand who you are without the routines, responsibilities, and role that shaped so much of your life.
Together, these books support two very different parts of the journey: Standing Beside Him for partners and spouses navigating prostate cancer and caregiving, and Orphaned Partners for widows and widowers learning to live after caregiving and loss.
My hope for both books is simple. I hope readers find practical help when they need it and feel a little less alone in the life they are living.
