Welcome to my journey
Keynote. Author. Widow… twice.
Lorrie Fields is an author, historian, and speaker based in Virginia Beach, VA. With over 20 years of public speaking experience, adeptly covering diverse topics from history to personal relationships. A graduate of Regent University with a Bachelor of Arts in History, she is credited with scripts registered at The Writer’s Guild of America. Additionally, Lorrie co-wrote a history book, The Seed of a Nation, with her second husband and spent the last years before his death creating a TV series based on her continued historical research. In her memoir, Twice Widowed, Lorrie opens up in a rare way about her deeply personal journey through grief, revealing universal insights to support anyone navigating the difficulties of life, love, and loss.
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A raw, yet hopeful look at loss while interrogating faith, belonging, and purpose
Twice Widowed is the raw and riveting journey of Lorrie Fields as she transforms heart-wrenching losses into a profound discovery of gratitude, resilience, and the unexpected gifts of grief.
Testimonials & Endorsements
“Twice Widowed is a deeply emotional book that grips our hearts and takes us on a journey from heartbreak to heartwarming. Lorrie is a masterful storyteller.”
““In the end, grief must be about becoming whole,” Lorrie Fields says in the opening of Twice Widowed. Then, she narrates her journey into grief—a grief of deep pain catalyzed by the abrupt extinction of great love, two times. The reader is treated as a companion and close friend on this journey.
Both joy and hurt erupt in full sensation; Lorrie finds words to express the inexpressible. She culminates her story with an awestruck encounter and exchange with mercy. You will be touched. Both my husband and I are lifelong friends of Lorrie and witnesses of her brokenness and steadfastness.”
Public Speaker,
Hospital Chaplain Professor and Director, Cancer and Cell Biology
“I (along with my husband) have been long time friends with Lorrie and her late husband, Darrell.
We met in Hawaii in the 80s when our families lived there. I have walked much of this story with her. It’s all true, gritty, raw, and visceral. In Twice Widowed, Lorrie writes in such a way that you will experience on every page the joy of living, spontaneous laughter, and the dark pain of loss.
The amazing thing about this book is that not only is it a really great story, it is filled with grace, mercy, and the promise of healing for us all. This is a must read for everyone since grief and loss eventually come to most all of us.
Lorrie’s story will touch and encourage you.”
“On life’s journey, you rarely meet someone like Lorrie who is willing to go public with the most private travails of the soul. In Twice Widowed, Lorrie shows that she is a person who thinks through life. She wrestled with what it means to be truly authentic and what it means to be an
example of meekness and humility, while at the same time purposefully engaged in the world.
Lorrie’s story needs to be told so that we can be encouraged by the victory that came when she wrestled with her faith, bitter disappointment, and doubt.”
Kroger Division President - retired
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Keynote & Workshop topics:
Loss and Grief
The Myth and Facts About Loss
You’re Not Going Crazy
Self Care and Easy Daily Habits to Improve Body and Soul
How Suffering Fast Tracks the Path to Courage and Joy
Becoming Authentically Your Own
How the Body Reacts to Losses (not just of loved ones)
Lorrie’s Personal Journey
Navigating Family and Friends
History and the William Penn Story
Why the Penn Story Matters Today
Why “Taking American Back for God” is Anti-Gospel
Collective Memory and Conscienceness
Applied History and How it Changes the Future
Be A Better Human…
Marie Umidi, writer, director, producer
Lorrie Fields is an exceptional wordsmith. Twice Widowed will not disappoint. Every word, every sentence, and each memory so poignantly told played before me on a full-color screen with all my senses engaged. I don’t think that I breathed much during those first pages. Her brave and raw honesty deepened my understanding of how important it is to not waste our grief. You will be a better human being because of this read.