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Q: What is Breath of Grace about?

Breath of Grace is a memoir by Lakeisha Hill chronicling her lifelong journey with sickle cell disease, a stroke at 32, the loss of her brother to suicide, and the end of her marriage. It is a story of survival, faith, yoga, and the grace found in choosing to keep living — even when life becomes almost unrecognizable.

🕊️ About The Book 🕊️

Breath of Grace is more than a memoir — it’s a testament to what faith, healing, and radical self-compassion can do when life refuses to cooperate with your plans.

Lakeisha Hill was born with sickle cell disease and spent a lifetime being told what she couldn’t do, wouldn’t survive, and shouldn’t expect. She survived a stroke at 32. She buried her brother. She walked away from a broken marriage. And through all of it — the hospital beds, the grief, the reinvention — she kept breathing.

This book is for every person who has ever felt like their body, their loss, or their circumstances were too much to carry. It is proof that grace is not the absence of suffering. It is the strength to move through it anyway.

🕊️ What To Look Out For In This Book🕊️

🕊️ Lakeisha Hill 🕊️

Lakeisha Nicole Hill is a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP®), yoga practitioner, mother of two, and a woman who has survived more than most people will ever face — and refuses to let any of it be wasted.

Born in New Castle, Delaware, and raised by her grandparents, Lakeisha spent her childhood navigating sickle cell disease while quietly outrunning every limitation placed on her. She studied abroad in Japan, built a career in financial planning, earned her CFP® designation, and raised two children — often while managing pain crises, hospitalizations, and a body that never made life easy.

After a stroke at 32, the loss of her brother to suicide, and the end of her marriage, Lakeisha didn’t find grace handed to her. She built it — through therapy, yoga, prayer, and the stubborn decision to keep going.

Breath of Grace is her story. And in sharing it, she hopes it becomes part of yours.

Print length

42 pages

Language

English

Publication date

Releasing Soon

Reviews & Praise

About "Breath of grace" by lakeisha

I read this book in two sittings and cried through most of it — not out of sadness, but out of recognition. Lakeisha puts words to the kind of suffering that most of us hide, and then shows you what it looks like to walk through it with faith and dignity. This book is a gift.

— Danielle T.

Registered Nurse & Sickle Cell Advocate

As someone who lost a sibling, I didn't expect a book to reach me the way this one did. The chapter on her brother Chris stopped me completely. Lakeisha doesn't sanitize grief — she honors it. And somehow, by the end, you feel lighter.

— Marcus W.

Social Worker

Breath of Grace is the book I wish I had during my own health crisis. Lakeisha's honesty about her stroke recovery, her marriage, and her spiritual journey is rare. She doesn't pretend she had all the answers — and that's exactly why you trust everything she says.

— Rochelle A.

Licensed Therapist

I've recommended this book to three of my yoga students already. The way Lakeisha writes about her practice — not as a cure, but as a conversation with her body — is one of the most beautiful descriptions of what yoga actually is, truly blessed

— Simone B.

Yoga Instructor

— Rochelle A.

Licensed Therapist

Chapters Overview

🕊️Who Is This Book For?🕊️

Breath of Grace was written for the ones still standing — even when they’re not sure how.

This book is for you if you:

Are living with a chronic illness and exhausted from pretending you’re fine
Have experienced grief that doesn’t follow any of the stages they promised you
Are walking through — or walking away from — a relationship that cost you yourself
Have leaned on faith but quietly wondered if it’s enough
Are looking for permission to heal in a way that is honest, messy, and completely your own

You don’t need to have sickle cell disease to see yourself in these pages. You just need to know what it feels like to keep going when giving up would be so much easier.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Breath of Grace about?

Breath of Grace is a memoir by Lakeisha Hill chronicling her lifelong journey with sickle cell disease, a stroke at 32, the loss of her brother to suicide, and the end of her marriage. It is a story of survival, faith, yoga, and the grace found in choosing to keep living — even when life becomes almost unrecognizable.

Who is this book intended for?

This book speaks to anyone navigating chronic illness, grief, personal loss, or spiritual questioning. It is especially powerful for those who feel they have been “the strong one” for too long and are ready to give themselves permission to heal.

Does the book offer actionable tools and exercises?

Yes. Alongside Lakeisha’s personal story, the book weaves in the real practices that sustained her — including yoga, therapy, prayer, and community — with honest reflection on how each one contributed to her healing.

Can this book help someone at any stage of recovery?

Absolutely. Whether you are in the middle of a crisis, just beginning to rebuild, or simply trying to understand what happened to you, Breath of Grace meets you exactly where you are.

How is this book different from other memoirs?

Lakeisha doesn’t write from a place of having figured it all out. She writes from the middle of it — the grief, the anger, the confusion, and the faith that survived all three. That honesty is what makes this book different. It doesn’t promise you a formula. It shows you a life.

Take the First Step Toward Freedom

Take the First Step Toward Your Own Breath of Grace

Every journey back to yourself begins with one honest moment — the decision to stop surviving in silence and start healing out loud.

Breath of Grace will meet you in that moment. It won’t hand you easy answers. But it will remind you that you are not alone, your story is not over, and grace — real, sustaining grace — is still available to you.