The Unimaginable Gift
of Losing a Child
My son is dead, and I speak with him every day.
The Unimaginable Gift – A Mother’s Memoir of Loss and Love is a powerful story of heartbreak, hope, and healing written by Josh and me, Caryn Bird. In these pages, I open my heart and share the raw truth of losing my son at the very same time my marriage was falling apart. What began as the darkest chapter of my life turned into an unimaginable gift: Josh reached across the veil to guide and comfort me through the hardest season imaginable, and in his presence I found the courage to walk through grief, rebuild my life, and embrace love again.This memoir is for anyone who has ever faced loss, heartbreak, or the end of a dream—and longs to believe that love, purpose, and healing are still possible. The Unimaginable Gift is a journey you’ll feel more than read.
This is my vulnerable story of how the gift Josh left me revealed the truth about what happens when we die.
Above all, it is a story about the love shared between a mother and son, an unshakeable bond that even death cannot sever. It shows us how our children can be our greatest teachers, just as death can be. And how losing ourselves can be the chance to find ourselves again, leading to hope and healing.
Josh and I wrote this book together to share our story with our readers. We reveal what we’ve been through in hopes of helping others who have lost a child find healing in the best way possible, and to offer comfort to those grieving the loss of loved ones.
Our heartfelt goal in writing this book is to support millions of parents grieving after losing someone they love. By sharing my journey through grief and our ongoing relationship, we hope to illuminate the end of the tunnel and let others know that their loved ones are still right here with them, helping them find peace and joy again.
As readers will discover through our book, my son Josh’s life and passing were gifts that gave me a new purpose in my life—our souls’ purpose, so to speak—including God’s plans for me.
Our book begins when I receive the worst news a parent can ever hear: that your child has died.
As I fall to pieces over the following days, weeks, and months, the reader learns about my impending divorce and the breakdown of my marriage as we struggle to survive as a family through this most challenging time.
Friends, colleagues, and strangers rally around us, and I start receiving messages from Josh through various channels, mediums, and even from Josh himself.
As I try to make sense of it all and find new ways to continue and deepen my relationship with Josh, my faith expands to include other beliefs and spiritualities, introducing me to concepts like past lives, our soul’s purpose, and angelic interventions.
A new version of myself and a new purpose for this life emerge as a new love blossoms between me and an old high school friend who re-enters my life after Josh encourages me to reach out.
My grieving journey takes me on various adventures, from Sedona to Costa Rica, and finally ends in Egypt where I lay Josh’s ashes to rest in the River Nile.
Throughout it all, readers will feel the sorrows and joys of losing someone they love, and find hope in understanding the truth about what happens after death, so they can also transform their pain into meaningful purpose.
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Biography
Entrepreneur, speaker, trainer, and hypnotherapist, Caryn Bird is CEO of Win With Hypnosis Clinic in Burlington, Wisconsin. In 2020, she lost her son, Josh, in a motorcycle accident, just as the world began shutting down due to the pandemic. The loss of her son turned out to be a gift, however, leading Caryn to find her true mission and soul’s purpose: sharing with other parents who have lost children the hope and truth that their child is still with them, and the message that their love is eternal.
Caryn Bird is an International Speaker, Trainer, and Founder of Attitude of a Champion Academy. She coaches and certifies hypnotists around the world to become game-changing Performance Mindset Experts.
On her way to becoming an international speaker and trainer, Caryn earned a Psychology degree and founded Win With Hypnosis, through which she has worked with over 5,000 athletes and high performers to help them regain their confidence and reach their peak performance.
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Caryn brought into the world the Attitude of Champion certification program as a legacy to her son Josh, an elite wrestler and now her co-author. It is now a six-figure online coaching business where she empowers therapists to become game-changing Performance Mindset Trainers. Caryn is known as the leading mindset expert for athletes and high performers throughout the Tri-State area.
Caryn has been a keynote speaker at the NGH Solid Gold Conference in 2022, and has presented at dozens of conferences, virtual meetings and workshops across the U.S. and Canada for more than eight years, in addition to her own summits, which have been attended by thousands of people.
Featured on newscasts, podcasts, and on world stages, Caryn stands for authenticity, integrity, and unconditional love and joy, encouraging others to have the abundant lives they’ve always dreamed of.
In 2020, Caryn experienced the loss of her 23-year-old son in the prime of his life, only days after she and her husband announced their divorce to their three sons. A few days later, Josh began contacting her from the spiritual world. Armed with her strong faith and belief in God, and through her enduring communications with her son from across the veil, Caryn was able to survive the loss of her son and breakdown of her marriage to share their message of hope.
Through her book The Unimaginable Gift, Caryn’s mission is to help people who have lost a child to feel joy again, to know without a doubt that their child is still right here with them. Through hers and Josh’s story, she wants to show and share her evolving views on Christianity and spirituality, and help people to see that you can still be a Christian and believe in reincarnation and that we can communicate across the veil with our loved ones in spirit, just as we can communicate with God and Jesus.