Onward Forward -- My Journey with ALS

<p><em>Onward Forward</em> is a book Brian Jeansonne would have written eventually. He wrote it now because ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease confined him to a power chair silenced his voluntary muscles and urged him to focus more deeply than ever on life's most essential questions. In this heartfelt and irreverent memoir Brian chronicles the disease process while exploring metaphysical spiritual and emotional concepts such as soul suffering contentment presence and-most importantly-love. </p><p> </p><p>As both narrator and soul guide Brian writes with raw honesty about the arc of his own faith as well as difficult periods of depression. He asks and answers life's most difficult but essential questions:</p><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>What is God? </li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Why do we suffer? </li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>How can we best live alongside each other? </li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>What does it mean to be content? </li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>How can we do better by ourselves and others? </li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>What's the role of a parent? A spouse?</li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Are Jesus and rock-and-roll compatible?</li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>What can we learn from Ted Lasso?</li></ol><p><br></p><p>Beginning with a foreword by fellow soul-seeker Alanis Morissette <em>Onward Forward</em> is an invitation to fully engage with life to embrace the good the bad and the shitshow and to run toward our truest selves with abandon.</p>