“What she accomplishes by telling her story puts Gutwein in league with Dr. Paul Kalanithi, who wrote about his terminal cancer diagnosis in the 2016 bestselling When Breath Becomes Air.”
Mahala Yates Stripling, PhD
This book is powerful. To get the full effect, you must digest in small chunks. It takes you gently and progressively through the exact healing process God used in my life. It answers both the sufferer’s question, “What do I need?” and the loved one’s question “What can I do for her/him?” It shows us how to support ourselves and each other. It teaches us how to heal through the big and small traumas of our every day lives.
Early morning, icy Indiana intersection. Blinding lights. Crunching metal, breaking glass. Angela wakes in the ICU, her arm paralyzed, her mother dead. They say, “an accident,” but it’s her fault. Five months later, she spends the summer finishing her work at NASA, and goes on to earn a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Landing a job a thousand miles from home, Angela resolves to start a new life. But she is broken, body, heart and soul. Will she learn to fly?Angela is an artist and an Aerospace Engineer. With Zephyr Jackson, her loyal Labrador, at her side, she lives and loves fully in the midst of suffering. She experiences the support and love of Jesus Christ in every intimate moment and in all of His creation. On her yoga mat, she soothes her nervous system, uncovering her true self. Angela sinks her fingers into the soil and into the written and spoken word, creating beauty.
