Creating Calm in the Chaos

Conversations for Teens on Bainbridge

Creating Calm in the Chaos

Conversations for Teens on Bainbridge

The story of a quest to healing, spiritual well-being, and connecting with loved ones in the afterlife.

A Mother’s Courage to Awaken

Hope and Inspiration from My Daughter’s Journey in the Afterlife tells a story about the love and loss of a child—and the healing quest it initiated. On her search for inner peace, Paula Petry, PhD looks to re-emerging ancient methods that nurture positive emotional health, mental wellness, and spiritual well-being.

Praise for
A Mother’s Courage to Awaken

Larry Dossey, M.D.

New York Times bestselling author of One Mind and Reinventing Medicine.

“Authentic, Inspiring, and Transformative! Dr. Paula Petry leads us through her own journey and helps us discover our own in the process. Brilliantly written - weaving together a touch of science with personal exploration. This book will change your life.”

Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan, Singer, Songwriter, Multiple Grammy Award–Winner

“Paula Petry shares her extremely personal and fascinating journey in “A Mother’s Journey”, a book that, regardless of your personal experiences or beliefs, is bound to resonate with some aspect of your life. Her struggles and difficulties in raising then losing her daughter Alex, born with special needs, and the way she turned her pain into action that benefitted countless others is truly inspirational!”

Marty Linsky

Harvard Kennedy School Faculty and co-author, Leadership on the Line

"Paula Petry has written a book for our times. In this period of radical uncertainty, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to share Paula’s intellectual, emotional, lifelong journey, replete with both unanticipated sadness and unplanned opportunity. We travel with her as she finds ways time after time courageously to turn the sadness learning, growth, healing, evolution and contribution. Paula’s is a real story, inspiring in itself, but also a parable for the possibilities for each of us, at any stage of life, faced with any challenge, to create and renew."

Leigh Kapps

PhD, Chief Operating Office, United Community Options of South Florida

"A powerfully vulnerable captivating book of self-discovery. It explores the all-encompassing struggles and joys of having a child with a disability and then finding a path back to the Light after unbearable loss. All healthcare practitioners would greatly benefit from reading this book. "

David Lawrence Jr.

Retired publisher of the Miami Herald and chair of The Children's Movement of Florida. 

"Here is a story that touches every step -- indeed, the very soul -- of a life's honest journey. Moments of pain and joy and lifelong learning are captured beautifully. This is, above all, a story of love. What courage it took to tell this story."

Patricia Stauber, RN, LCSW

Grief Counselor, Trauma Specialist

“Here is an extraordinary story that eloquently chronicles a life of challenges with love, heartache and spiritual transformation. Dr. Petry describes her fight for the rights of children and her role in empowering other parents to care for their children and themselves. This book will definitely touch your heart as you discover what it means to be a “resilient” and “spiritual warrior”.”

Hank Wesselman PhD.

Anthropologist and author of The Bowl of Light, The Re-Enchantment, and his Spiritwalker trilogy.

"Paula’s walkabout through this life will be familiar territory to many readers as we witness her journeys through love and loss, grief and recovery, and the recreation of harmony in her soul and in her life. In the process, she restored balance in the hearts of many … and became a visionary and a modern medicine woman. This book is good medicine."

Lori Fahey

CEO & President, The Family Café, Inc.

"Paula’s story is meant for every parent, who has ever asked themselves, Why me? Why my child? And even, How would I survive my child’s death? Paula’s quest for these answers will help you find yours, as you walk with her through adversity, disappointments, empowering adventures, and life’s mysteries to discover new meaning, purpose, deep healing, and contribution. This book will change your heart. "

Eugene Ahn, M.D.

"Each of us has a unique journey to fulfill, and Paula beautifully shares her full rainbow experience of being a mother and enduring and integrating the unthinkable, the traumatic loss of her daughter, to become "the Wizard" and help others on their journey as well. And with her joyful sense of humor and humility she takes you on a ride that is both fulfilling, meaningful and one that may leave you with many worthwhile questions."

Dr. Richard Urbano

Retired Professor, Vanderbilt University

"This is an uplifting story of Paula’s struggles with adversity and her ultimate success at building a rewarding and fulfilling life, becoming the person she wants and needs to be. I hope readers will get as much out of Paula’s story as I did. That they will be able incorporate what she has learned into their own lives, as I have. "

Reverend William Earle Cameron

Retired Unity Minister.

“Paula has mastered a love-centered regeneration process by embodying the power of the latent Divinity within us all. I am extremely proud of her path as a true healer.”

Overview

A Mother’s Courage to Awaken tells a story about the love and loss of a child—and the healing quest it initiated. On her search for inner peace, Paula Petry, PhD looks to re-emerging ancient methods that nurture positive emotional health, mental wellness, and spiritual well-being.

A story about death and resurrection. What does this mean? To nurture a life? And what if that life is your own? When Dr. Petry loses her daughter Alexandra, she looks for ways to connect with loved ones in the afterlife. Along her journey, she encounters a literal and figurative resurrection, a transcendence of time and space, and a life transformed beyond whatever was imagined possible.

Emotional health and mental wellness from the other side confronts grief, love, and loss with holistic practices and alternative health medicine. Inside, you’ll find healing modalities outside of traditional medicine like sound healing, plant medicine, Akashic Records, shamanism, and healing mantras. With these ancient methods and different forms of energy medicine, join Dr. Petry to:

Re-discover the power of prayer, intention, and the imagination
Re-direct our thoughts to what we want rather than what we don’t want
Relinquish the illusion of control
A Mother’s Courage to Awaken speaks to women wishing to awaken to their inner truth and power, and readers of Signs From The Afterlife, Messages from Above, Many Lives, Many Masters, and My Son and the Afterlife.

“ Paula Petry shares her extremely personal and fascinating journey in “A Mother’s Journey”, a book that, regardless of your personal experiences or beliefs, is bound to resonate with some aspect of your life. Her struggles and difficulties in raising then losing her daughter Alex, born with special needs, and the way she turned her pain into action that benefitted countless others is truly inspirational!”

Gloria Estefan

Paula Petry has written a book for our times. In this period of radical uncertainty, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to share Paula’s intellectual, emotional, lifelong journey, replete with both unanticipated sadness and unplanned opportunity. We travel with her as she finds ways time after time courageously to turn the sadness learning, growth, healing, evolution and contribution. Paula’s is a real story, inspiring in itself, but also a parable for the possibilities for each of us, at any stage of life, faced with any challenge, to create and renew.

Marty Linsky, Harvard Kennedy School Faculty and co-author, Leadership on the Line

“Here is a story that touches every step — indeed, the very soul — of a life’s honest journey. Moments of pain and joy and lifelong learning are captured beautifully. This is, above all, a story of love. What courage it took to tell this story.”
David Lawrence Jr., retired publisher of the Miami Herald and chair of The Children’s Movement of Florida.

“Paula’s walkabout through this life will be familiar territory to many readers as we witness her journeys through love and loss, grief and recovery, and the recreation of harmony in her soul and in her life. In the process, she restored balance in the hearts of many … and became a visionary and a modern medicine woman. This book is good medicine.

Hank Wesselman PhD., anthropologist and author of The Bowl of Light, The Re-Enchantment, and his Spiritwalker trilogy.”

“Authentic, Inspiring, and Transformative! Dr. Paula Petry leads us through her own journey and helps us discover our own in the process. Brilliantly written – weaving together science with personal exploration. This book will change your life.”

Larry Dossey, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of One Mind and Reinventing Medicine.

Creating Calm in the Chaos