Synopsis
Facing adversity is a part of life. It is up to those challenged as to how these obstacles will impact their lives. In a highly personal new book, Learning to Dance With the Dragonfly: Healing Lessons of Nature, Holly N. Fordyce describes her own journey through dealing with the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer. The result is a remarkably inspiring collection of poems, photographs, journal entries, and essays that is at the same time highly emotional, yet infinitely comforting. It is evident the exploration and immersion in the dark produced much light for the author.
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About the Author
Holly N. Fordyce is a breast cancer survivor and a social worker in private practice. She has a master’s degree from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.
In the past five years Fordyce has become a nature photographer and an inquisitive naturalist. She lives with her husband, two dogs, and two cats close to a cranberry bog in Carlisle, Massachusetts, where she walks daily with her golden retriever, Rosie.
From the Inside Flap
On a beautiful spring day Holly N. Fordyce received devastating news: A recent biopsy revealed she had breast cancer. Her physical healing began almost immediately with the usual medical treatment and alternative medicines, but fixing the spiritual damage to her soul and dealing with the ensuing anger, hurt, and fear was more complex.
Fordyce, a clinical social worker in private practice, discovered the only way to claim her life and stand in her own truth in the present was to journey past the darkness. Through journaling, photograph, and her passion for nature, Fordyce was able to come to terms with a life-threatening illness and begin the healing process. In this collection of journal entries, essays, and poems highlighted with dazzling, color photographs Fordyce shares her innermost thoughts, hopes, and fears.
"On this bright Tuesday afternoon when the light was so blue it hurt your eyes to look at it, I no longer felt comfortable in my own skin," she says of the day she discovered she had a life-threatening illness. "My body had betrayed me and now felt alien and threatening. The tenuous sense of control I d once known dropped off like an old coat. This magical month when I live in my garden and dig in the earth, loving its moist raw fragrance, when I plant seeds filled with surprise for the months to come, when I m surrounded by birdsong wild as a symphony, became a backdrop to terror."
The titles of the essays and poems themselves such as "A Transformation Begins," "I Am," "Coming to Terms," and "When I Don t Feel So Much Like Me" offer insight into the author s journey and inspiration for others trying to cope with life-threatening situations. She writes extensively about self-acceptance and the fragility of her connection to life. With honesty and openness, the author adds an eloquent voice to those who have conquered their own difficulties and become stronger for them.
Her poems, exuberant photographs, and gentle warmth invite the reader into that deeply centered place where each of us can experience passion, the power of healing, and the strength to move with the relentless unknowns of life.
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