Collateral Beauty: Changing Your Mind-Set When You Can't Change Reality

by Tracey Brittis

Tracey Brittis was a bustling, athletic, articulate supermom who loved to cook and eat gourmet dinners when a second bout with throat cancer left her permanently unable to swallow and hobbled by a speech defect.With astonishing speed, the enviable life she’d built with her physician husband came crashing down, and though she’d survived cancer, she found herself at rock bottom emotionally.Then Brittis discovered that suffering offers a road to infinite possibilities—if she could shift her thought patterns and rewrite the “stories” she’d been telling herself since childhood.Collateral Beauty is an eloquent and poignant memoir of self-discovery that will inspire readers to meet adversity with a new approach centered on what is rather than what was or what might have been. Themes include issues of identity, class, the ways we judge one another, and the human need for nurture and connection.

333 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2019

Reviews

[Hilary Burns]

I loved it. Tracey did an amazing job telling her story. I was entranced and couldn't book the book down. I wholeheartedly recommend it.