The Courage to Shine: Find Your Voice and Discover the Healing Power of Your Words

The Courage to Shine is a powerful and inspirational memoir by Eileen Forrestal, a former anesthesiologist who transforms her life. From a lifetime of 'putting people to sleep', Eileen is now in the business of 'waking people up!’ As a young child Eileen accidentally overdoses on junior aspirin and suffers a subsequent speech impediment which she deals with by remaining silent to hide her voice. 40 years later, she finds herself unfulfilled and dissatisfied, in an outwardly 'successful' career but with a failed marriage and a strained relationship with her aging mother, and she wonders as so many of us do, how did this happen to me? Following a 'verbal' wake-up call, she leaves her career in medicine and starts a business writing and publishing inspirational and popular Get Up and Go Diaries, now on a mission to heal the world with words, not drugs! In The Courage to Shine Eileen retraces her journey, She shares her story of finding her voice and discovering a powerful communication tool. She acknowledges the courage it takes to tell the truth about one's own life, and the rewards of healing her mother-daughter relationship, and delights in the freedom to shine as the person she naturally is.