End of the Hour

A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

Narrated by: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

“A frank chronicle of healing.”—Kirkus Reviews

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss?

Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Jarvis expected that this clinical training would inoculate her against the effects of personal trauma. But when her father died after a year-long battle with cancer, followed by her mother’s unexpected passing while on their family vacation, she came undone.

Thrown into a maelstrom of grief, with long-buried childhood tragedy rising to the surface, Jarvis knew what she had to do―check herself into the same trauma facility to which she often sent her clients. In treatment, trading the therapist’s chair for the patient’s couch, Jarvis took her first steps toward healing.

A brave story of confronting life’s hardest moments with emotional honesty, End of the Hour is for anyone who has experienced the unpredictable, lasting power of grief―and wondered how they’d ever get through it.

©2023 Meghan Riordan Jarvis (P)2023 Zibby Publishing

Critic reviews

“A candid memoir about trauma….a frank chronicle of healing . . . will resonate with readers in emotional pain.” —Kirkus Reviews

"Any reader will recognize the moments of pain . . . in all their stunning emotion and shocking physicality. Jarvis offers a portal to self-compassion and a passage to hope." —Booklist

“Her life shattered by the sudden loss of her beloved mother, Meghan Riordan Jarvis walks us barefoot through her grief, across sacred shards of loss, guilt, and hopelessness. From End of the Hour we emerge with the fierce tenderness that love and loss require of us. What a gift.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed, founder of Together Rising

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I am so overwhelmed with gratitude for this book! Beautifully written! Meghan has a voice that just captivates you in an intense way. Her story is painful, but her honesty in her steps to healing was inspiring.