“Sarah’s Story” is an inspirational narrative about self-discovery and transformation. A powerful story of love, life and resilience that leads the reader from the innocence of naivety through the emotional turmoil of unexpected despair, emerging out the other side as it skilfully illuminates human potential to triumph over adversity.
Sarah's Story is a work of fiction based on the cumulative common experiences of countless numbers of women and men that I encountered over twenty years of working in the area of infertility; a book about resilience and overcoming adversity.
I too have endured my own adversities, as have every one of you, and I have learned from these adversities that although I may not always be able to control what is happening to me, I always have a choice as to what I think, feel and believe about my situation and where to focus my attention.
For me personally, it was only when I realised that the illness I had been enduring, which had left me incapacitated on so many occasions and prevented me from functioning on any kind of normal level, was actually a gift that was providing me with an opportunity, that I decided to stop fighting what was happening in my own body and just go with the flow.
It was only then that I discovered that this halt in the proceedings of my life had a purpose. This was my opportunity to stop, to give thanks and to write what needed to be written, and thus, Sarah’s Story was born, and I am forever grateful.
Working in the infertility industry, I experienced first-hand the devastation that infertility can wreak on individuals, couples, friends and extended family alike. It can often be an insidious and unrelenting issue and there are many relationships that do not survive the experience. I have utilised the insight and knowledge that I have gained on my own journey and sensitively displayed this throughout the pages of Sarah’s Story.
I am blessed to be a mother of three beautiful children; Lachlan, Morgan, Rachel and stepmother to Jack. Grandmother to six beautiful healthy grandchildren, I never take this privilege for granted.
I know you will enjoy Sarah's Story.