Graceful Woman Warrior

Graceful Woman Warrior is a gutsy, thought-provoking and deeply moving posthumous memoir about mindfully living and dying with cancer. Compelled to use a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis as an opportunity to grow, learn and discover who she truly was, Terri Luanna da Silva started a blog about her journey. Riding the terrifying cancer treatment roller coaster of hope to despair over and over again, Terri struggled to balance her heart's desire to treat her illness holistically, with the brutality of traditional cancer treatment. Ultimately, she chose to go on a spiritual pilgrimage to Europe, surrounding herself with grace lessons, gratitude and spirituality in order to make life about living and not just avoiding death.

Fulfilling a promise to her niece, Terri, when she whispered "I think I'm dying. I want you to tell people," co-author, Laurie O'Neil, along with Terri's young daughter, Marisa Alegria da Silva, take you on a transformative journey between, through and beyond life and death. Taken directly from Terri's blog, "Graceful Woman Warrior" offers a life perspective so rare, so hopeful in the face of interminable darkness, it leaves a deep imprint on readers hearts.

A bold blueprint for navigating the sacred cycles of life and death, the authors invite you to open your heart to Terri's haunting yet ultimately transcendent story with the full knowledge that in so doing you are opening your heart to the possibility of reshaping, redefining or perhaps even rewriting the meaning of your own.