ocean OVER sky:
Gift yourself with the book that might just change it all for you...
A Memoir of My Downside-Up year of Traumatic Grief & Spiritual Awakening
When a plane vanished over the Makassar Strait—carrying Felice DuBois’s two daughters and their father—everything stopped. What followed was not just a year of grief, but a year that turned reality inside-out and downside-up
In this lyrical, soul-baring memoir, Felice invites readers into her Downside-Up journey, a path through devastation, surrender, and the extraordinary presence of Divine love in the aftermath of unimaginable loss.
This is not a story of “moving on.” It is a sacred offering for anyone navigating grief, standing at a life threshold, or awakening to a truth beyond this world.
Grievers… Seekers… Soul survivors… this book is for you.
Book Foreword
There are some stories that do not just ask to be read—they ask to be felt. ocean OVER sky is such a story. It is not a book about loss. It is a book written from loss. It rises from the deepest waters of grief, where breath vanishes and time disintegrates, and it brings back with it something shimmering, something holy.
On January 1, 2007, Felice DuBois’s world was shattered in a moment that no mother, no father, no soul prepared for life on Earth could fathom enduring. The crash of Adam Air Flight 574 over the Makassar Strait claimed the lives of her two daughters and their father. What followed was not a descent, but a dismemberment—of identity, of control, and her assumed future. And yet, what we hold in our hands now is not only the record of that devastation, but the living testament of a life remade.
This is not a linear memoir. It is a mosaic, stitched from memory, mystery, and miraculous encounters with the Divine. Felice leads us through her “downside-up” year—a year that began in death and gradually spiraled into something akin to rebirth. With rare honesty and unflinching voice, she invites us into the abyss and shows us how, even there, light can arrive. Often unbidden. Always sacred.
There is a place inside this book for every reader who has suffered a grief they thought they could not survive. But this book is not only for the grieving. It is for the awakening. It is for those caught between the life they had, the life they never wanted, and the emerging possibility that even a shattered heart can open into something unexpectedly beautiful.
In ocean OVER sky, Felice DuBois does what only true spiritual memoirists can: she turns personal catastrophe into collective medicine. Her words echo with the prayers of the bereaved, the gasps of the spiritually reborn, and the silent knowing of those who have touched eternity and come back with stories to tell.
This is one such story. And it will change you.