Juanita Johnson is a storyteller, death educator, teacher, small-group facilitator, and former grief counselor whose work invites reflection on love, loss, and legacy. For more than four decades, she has guided individuals and communities through the sacred terrain of grief, teaching that end-of-life preparation is an act of connection and care. She produced the video Inner Views of Grief (Fanlight Productions, 1995), winner of the Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Media Network. This is her first book.
""Love in the Time of Forgetting is a tender, luminous story about love that stays, even as memory loosens its grip. With honesty and deep compassion, Juanita Johnson invites us into the vulnerable, everyday reality of caring for her beloved husband as he journeyed through Lewy body dementia. What unfolds is a portrait of devotion in its truest form--quiet, steady, sometimes painful, always rooted in love."" --Sandrine Pilaz, Hospital Chaplain, Sioux Falls, South Dakota ""Love in the Time of Forgetting is a field guide for living and dying with presence, honesty, and grace. Through tender anecdotes of companioning her beloved Earl through Lewy body dementia, Johnson shows how gratitude, curiosity, delight, and deepening love can coexist--and even flourish--alongside sadness, fear, exhaustion, and profound loss. This book is a treasure, offering wisdom for all of us who will love, lose, and die."" --Karla Combres, Legacy Guide and Celebrant, Shell Lake, SK, Canada