Rory C. Folsom & Steven D. Duby

About The Book

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🕊️ 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🕊️

Self-Awareness

Discover how facing your deepest pain honestly — without performance or pretense — becomes the first act of true healing.

Personal Freedom

Learn what it means to rebuild your identity after loss, illness, and betrayal — and why becoming someone new isn't a failure, it's a gift.

Social Wellness

Explore the power of community, chosen family, and what it truly means to let people show up for you when you've always been the strong one.

Lasting Recovery

Find the tools — yoga, therapy, faith, and daily practice — that Lakeisha used not to bounce back, but to rebuild forward.

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🕊️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.