Reid
VICKI
From Pain to Purpose
This is the book I never imagined writing.
It arrived in moments when the grief was too heavy to carry — and the words spilled out because they had nowhere else to go.
After losing Cooper, I found myself living inside a silence that felt unbearable. Writing became my way to speak the truth of that pain, I share this story for mothers who wake each day with a broken heart, and for the friends and families who long to help but don’t know how. These pages don’t offer answers — they offer honesty, connection, and the reminder that even in the darkest place, we are not alone.
It is a story of love that refuses to fade, grief that reshapes everything, and a mother learning — painfully and bravely — how to keep living in a world forever changed.
From Pain to Purpose is a deeply honest memoir of a mother surviving the unimaginable — the sudden loss of her son, Cooper. Written with a grief-brain in mind, Vicki gently guides readers through the shock of early grief, the fog that follows, and the long process of learning to live in a world forever changed.
She writes openly about trauma, the painful silence, and the small signs of connection that show love doesn’t end. This isn’t a story about “moving on,” but about learning to live with grief.
A love story.
A survival story.
For every parent carrying a broken heart — and for Cooper, forever 25.
