The Gift Inside the Wound

Homeless and heartbroken when her husband chooses the lifestyle of a celibate monk, TeriLeigh embarks on a six-month unplanned cross-country trek. Grief greets her at a North-woods Minnesota cabin in the dead of winter. He guides through an ice storm in Iowa, introduces her to Strength and Vulnerability in the warm sunshine of Florida, takes a back seat to Solitude along the winding highways of the east coast, gives her Perspective from a sky-rise view in New York City, and offers her Grace in a sacred bay in Maui.

Welcomed into the guest bedrooms and at the dining tables of family and friends, TeriLeigh stitches her broken heart with the help and nurturing wisdom of a breast cancer survivor, a Vietnam veteran, a therapy dog, a transgender man, a dominatrix, and more. Through her journey, TeriLeigh learns that home is not a place but a feeling, love is not an emotion but a state of being, and wounds are not curses, but rather, precious gifts of life.