Lyssa Black FassettLyssa Black Fassett is a writer, musician, former researcher, and lover of the natural world. She has had a lifelong interest in spiritual, religious, and philosophical thought, experimenting with various practices such as insight meditation, shamani journeying, and goddess traditions, eventually leading to a master's degree at Harvard Divinity School. But none of this remotely prepared her for the sudden death of her 22-year-old son from a heroin overdose. Her story details a kind of archaeological dig of a transformation born of traumatic grief, years of struggle and grace, a perceptual shift pointing the way home to herself, and to an altered, yet unbroken, relationship with her son. Lyssa lives with her husband in the small town northwest of Boston where they raised their child. Read More Read Less