Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn\'t change - no matter how Hard she tried.
This is a reaffirming example of how it can be done..
It\'s a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story.
Her memoir recounts Emery\'s challenges and achievements, tracing her efforts to give them meaning and find where they fit in her life.
She was a journalist, public relations consultant, and teacher - and never able to speak fluently.
Emery was a daughter, sister and mother - and lost all those roles.
In the foreword, Steve Gleason - former NFL player with the New Orleans Saints, now living with ALS, and a friend of Emery\'s son, Ben Schneider, front man for the band Lord Huron - provides a compelling introduction to what we can gain from what we lose.
Exhibit A: herself.
Emery wrote this memoir to help guide her children on their own life journeys, stressing the amazing resilience of humans beings.
Meanwhile, her broken voice meant her long career in communications was regularly a battle.
First with her incurable severe stutter, then with the death of her daughter, Jessica, and the too-early deaths of her own younger siblings.
And she did try.
Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn\'t change - no matter how Hard she tried
