Join us in partnership with Chatham's Center for Active Living as we welcome local author, Michelle Ferguson, as she discusses her book, Grace, Grief, and Gratitude: A Journey of Resilience.

Registration is required; walk-ins welcome based on availability.

When life shatters with loss, where do you turn for strength? In Grace, Grief, and Gratitude: A Journey of Resilience, Michelle Ferguson share my deeply personal story of love, caregiving, cancer, and the devastating loss of her husband, Jerry. Through heartbreak, she discovered the healing power of gratitude—an anchor that carried her through nights of fear, mornings of silence, and the long road toward resilience.

Blending raw memoir with gentle reflection exercises, this book offers a compassionate guide for anyone navigating grief, caregiving, or life-altering challenges. It shows how, even in the darkest chapters, gratitude can become a compass pointing toward love, connection, and hope. This is not a book about denying pain, but about honoring it—while also embracing the quiet gifts that can exist alongside it. If gratitude could help Michelle survive the unimaginable, what might it make possible in your own life?

Michelle Ferguson was raised by her grandparents in Alcantara, a village about 55 miles (86 kilometers) south of Cebu in the Philippines. She met Jerry in Cebu City, the man she would eventually marry. She then continued to work there until the early 2000s when Michelle and Jerry relocated to the United States of America and settled in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. . She currently lives in Cape Cod with her four legged-son Spike. After losing her husband Jerry to cancer, Michelle is reigniting her passions by learning French, her love for diving, traveling around the world and practicing daily gratitude. Practicing daily gratitude has helped her take care of her husband while she was undergoing treatment as a cancer patient herself. She didn’t let cancer take the best of her.

For the event, books will be available for purchase, with acceptance of Venmo, Zelle, cash, or check. 

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