In that instant, I realized that if I focused on the pain and misery, it would take me longer to heal. When chronic pain is my most often companion, it can be challenging to keep looking for the good. I needed to figure out a way to focus on the positive moments of each day. I needed to see where I was improving and healing.

— Sharon E. Rainey

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

— Sharon E. Rainey

It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy.

— Sharon E. Rainey

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

— Sharon E. Rainey

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what’s beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.

— Sharon E. Rainey

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

— Sharon E. Rainey

This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

— Sharon E. Rainey

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

— Sharon E. Rainey

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

— Sharon E. Rainey

We are exquisite souls housed in physical bodies.

— Sharon E. Rainey