How People Succeed Post-Trauma
"How did you actually get where you are?"
This is what people with recent disability would ask me when I would visit rehab centers, at disability expos, or online. They didn't want to see images of people playing sports, in front of a computer at a job, or with friends happily downing beers in a restaurant. They wanted to know how it happens.
This is what From There To Here answers. 45 essays, 2000 words each, describing the process of how people got to the quality of life they have after the most traumatic event of their lives. Becoming paralyzed.
There is something for everyone. Every level of injury — from low paraplegia to high quadriplegia.
Every coping style — from rage and depression to denial and early embrace of the disability community. Men and women, married and single, young and old.
It's a great read just to get a clear sense of how infinitely adaptable we
all are. Just because we're human.
And if you are still in the adjustment process — or care about someone who is — then at least one of these honest, well-written chapters will help you find your own path to adjustment and potential.
The writers were all willing to be prompted to their deepest experience by Stan and me. It wasn't easy, but they understood that their experience could make a difference for others.
And we are equally honored by their generosity and openness to produce what we know is a unique and profound book that truly changes lives.
Table of Contents
Falling Into Grace
Elizabeth Fetter Eastman
Redefinition of Masculinity
Ned Fielden
Capable Shogaisha
Miki Matheson
New Dreams
Jim Langevin
Lucky Man
Victor Cerda
Wife, Mother, Me
Faye Pruitt
Life After a Run at the River
Chuck Stebbins
Walking the Fine Line
Mark Edwards
No Barriers
Leslie Sward Greer
Finding the Cure on the Inside
Michael Hurlock
Back on the Dance Floor of Life
Bobbie Humphries
Hunting More Than Ever
Breck Lonier
A Search for Self-Worth
Kris Ann Piazza
SCI—My Path to Scientific Discovery
Sasha Rabchevsky
Growing Through Adversity
Flo Kahn
Coming Full Circle
Kris Gulden
My Bag of Tools
Larry Nitz
Devil's Night
Audrey Begay
Life Need Not be Easy
as Long as It's Interesting
Aline Moran
Time, Time, Time: See What's Become of Me
Bill Hiser
Living Well is The Best Revenge
Gordon Palmer
Ups, Downs, and Breakthroughs
Kirk Feyerabend
Holding Together: A Newborn Life
Samantha Kimball-Fell
Take the Pain
Mark Matthew Braunstein
Never Should On Yourself
Renee Alper
No Roadblocks, Only Detours
David L. Baker
I Wasn't Born a Mermaid
Jaehn Clare
Give It a Year
Steve Dalton
My Rides in Hearses
Walter Kimes
August
Kimberly Clark
The Water's Just Fine
Gary Karp
A Dark Path to God
Vickie Baker
Surviving Paralysis—Crafting
a New Life
Stephen Crowder
Life Is to Be Lived
Patricia Gordon
Beyond the Flagpole
Mitch Tepper
When You Come to a Fork
in the Road,Take It
Frances Ozur
I Will Not Be Denied
Sean Denehy
Survival of the Fittest
Tiffany Nickel
I Don't Want to Fail
Nicholas W. LiBassi
In Competition with Myself
Randy Snow
The End of Denial
Don Bondi
My Body is Only Part of Me
Ginger Lane
Mourning and Healing
Daniel Gottlieb
Transition from the Abyss
Axel Doerwald
Teenager Interrupted
Erin Cornman
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Christopher Reeve
"The stories collected here explain how people have dealt with adversity and come out on top."
John Callahan
"I emerged grateful for the bone-crushing honesty. A far cry from Hollywood's disability-of-the-month victim movies!"
Terry Chase
"...an excellent resource that will offer people with recent injuries that critical glimmer of hope at the start of the journey of adjustment."