Synopsis

Angela’s blue Subaru spins in an icy, Indiana intersection. She and her mother are not breathing. Hours later, she wakes in the ICU. Her arm paralyzed, her mother dead.

Police determine she ran the stop sign, and she believes it. She folds herself inward, unable to face either loss. Mustering the fight, she straps her arm to her chest and resolves to survive. Creased forehead. Locked jaw. She gathers bones and muscles, rejecting defeat. Angela returns to Aerospace classes and spends the summer finishing her work at NASA. Graduating, she lands a job a thousand miles from everything she knows.

Guilt, fear and pain eclipse who she is. She buries the tiny seed, planted by her mother, deep under the pain. Hiding a thousand miles away, Angela doubts her ability to love or be loved. But will she live? Will she learn to fly?

Review

I met Angela at a book event and was intrigued by her story. She was in a car accident that killed her mother and left her with various injuries that kept her in pain for 15+ years. This book is her story but is also a guide for those in similar situations on how to let go and move forward.

This story is an inspiration to those that think that they just can’t handle another day of pain. Angela sought help from multiple sources including holistic methods. She had a team of doctors on her side that tried new techniques and they emerged in the medical field. Some worked, some did not.

When they say that the mind is powerful they aren’t kidding. I think it was Angela’s inability to remember the crash that was ultimately holding her back from healing. Dealing with the memories helped her move forward further than she ever had in the past.

I liked that at the end of most chapters there are words to reflect upon and then chapters sprinkled throughout that gives the reader different things to reflect upon in their own lives. This book is not meant to be devoured in a day, but to be thoughtful over a period of days, especially if you are working through your own issues.

Angela has dogs that help her through the most of it and those moments touched my heart. I was teary eyed when she spoke about having to do what was best for her first dog when cancer was discovered. Having had to help two of my own dogs cross the rainbow bridge, this passage touched me the most.

Overall we give this book 4 paws up and highly recommend it for anyone going through their own issues to help them work through their issues and move forward in life.

About the Author

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.

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