End of the Hour

A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

Narrated by: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss?

Meghan Riordan Jarvis lived a charmed childhood with her large Irish-Catholic family: loving parents, a house full of siblings, a top-tier education, and summers on Cape Cod. And yet, loss was part of her story from the beginning.

In therapy in her 20s after a break-up, Meghan discovered how the silence surrounding a childhood tragedy had laid the groundwork for a life spent trying to keep other people happy and avoiding any type of risk, including love. She even became a grief and trauma therapist herself.

Despite her clinical training, Meghan’s life came undone. Still reeling from her father’s death two years earlier, Meghan was vacationing with her mother and children when her mother died suddenly. Thrown into a maelstrom of grief, Meghan knew what she had to do—check herself into the same trauma facility to which she typically sent her patients.

A story of resilience, vulnerability, and life after loss, 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 Books

A beautiful story of trauma, grief, and transformation!

What a gift this book is - it reminds us of the life events that we often do not realize leave an imprint of trauma and that, until healed, will continue to impact our mind, body, being and life. I loved going on this healing journey and am inspired to do my own healing work. Thank you, Meghan, for sharing your story - beautifully written!

Raw & Real

Thank you for such an honest look into your journey to wholeness. I’m also intrigued by the story of the origin of this book through Zibby’s book club. Connections are so important.

A Vulnerable Story of Grief and Resilience

What a beautiful and vulnerable story of grief from a therapist who seems like a best friend. Meghan brings the humanness of grief to the forefront reminding us that everyone suffers loss, yet those heroic enough to talk about it offer healing to us all.

I keep sharing this book ...

This book was recommended to me by a friend after the death of her mom and dad, and I've been recommending it to others ever since. Meghan Riordan Jarvis puts words to things that have no words. From her own experience of childhood loss and the compounding grief following the death of her parents, Meghan began a journey through sorrow, to collapse, and -- with the help of others -- on toward the path of healing. As a therapist, she has an understanding of the impact of trauma. She can step outside the experience of grief to describe what happens within it. As a mourner she knows what despair feels like in her bones. In The End of the Hour, Meghan weaves together the threads of her story to offer stepping stones of hope, understanding and compassion for anyone tumbling around in the tumultuous currents of grief. I highly recommend this book and other resources by this author -- Fellow griever and counselor

Beautifully written

Beautiful story of grief,
relationships with parents and healing- with so many insights about trauma and treatment.

As a therapist this felt so real and able to express what was happening and her feelings

Reader and pacing. Kept moving at an easy to feel what was going on and sequence of her life

Boring. A disappointment.

I really wanted to like this memoir. But it was so dull, the whining dull descriptions of a therapist. There was little in the way of creative writing, mostly tell, not show, which made the story worse. I just could not finish this book and I finish most everything. Save your credit.