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

When a two hundred pound glass partition fell on Donna Fado Iverys head resulting in brain injury disability and chronic pain she could no longer count on walking speaking thinking or caring for her infant and preschool children and husband. In her eighth year as pastor her ministry too seemed terminally compromised.With words awash she painted her prayers and discovered in the images her path toward healing.This inspirational memoir shares her struggle through medical social and church prejudice and her support through the loving bond of family community and spirit. It was only through faith prayer and a new understanding of the miraculous ways that the Holy Spirit can work in our lives that she was able to eventually rise function realize and share a newly refreshed and ever-unfolding relationship with God. Sleep Pray Heal: A Path to Wholeness and Well-Being charts the path through hardship and despair and offers a map--through scripture theology poetry painting and storytelling-- to faith healing recovery and well-being.Book two of this Healing Memoir series Sleep Pray Fly: Spirit Journey to Healing is forthcoming. For more information see the authors website www.DonnaFadoIvery.com or www.AdventuresInHealing.com.DONNA FADO IVERY is an artist spiritual leader inspirational speaker teacher and writer. Her celebrated healing journey from a disabling head injury makes Donna a sought- after speaker on spiritual resources for living with chronic pain. Ordained in the United Methodist Church Donna has pastored congregations in Northern California. She is married to the Reverend Dr. Hubert Ivery and they have two adult daughters.