Sleep, Pray, Heal: A Path to Wholeness & Well-Being (Healing Memoir)

How one woman recovered—and found new ways to thrive—after a devastating accident caused a traumatic brain injury is the core of an inspirational new memoir. Sleep, Pray, Heal: A Path to Wholeness and Well-Being has just placed as a finalist in the William Faulkner—William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the category of Narrative Nonfiction Book. A chapter also placed as a top 10 winner in the Writer's Digest 2019 Competition in the area of Inspirational/Spiritual. Sleep, Pray, Heal is a story of how hard work, artistic expression, and, most of all, deep faith enabled United Methodist minister Donna Fado Ivery to reclaim her life and to offer her story to illuminate the path for others.When a two hundred pound glass partition fell on Donna Fado Ivery's head resulting in brain injury, disability, and chronic pain, she could no longer count on walking, speaking, or thinking. How would she care for her infant, her preschooler, her husband, and herself? How would she continue to serve as pastor? With humor and humility, this inspirational memoir speaks to Donna’s struggle through medical, social, and church prejudice with the abiding support of family and the Holy Spirit. Sleep, Pray, Heal: A Path to Wholeness and Well-Being charts the path through hardship and despair and offers a map—through scripture, prayer, poetry, painting, and storytelling— to recovery, well-being, and a deeper faith. Sleep, Pray, Heal speaks to any audience about the ways that people in chronic pain can find healing, and suggests secular as well as faith-based resources that can help with that process. Most of all, Sleep, Pray, Heal is a warm, surprisingly humorous, and insightful personal memoir that can enlighten the mind and lighten the heart of any reader.