Driving Home: Cancer, Concussion, Mom and Me

Driving Home is a memoir focused on a single year of the author's life in which she and her 9-year-old daughter moved in with her dying mother, she suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from being hit by a semi-truck, and she dealt with the reality of living hours away from her husband and their 5-year-old son. After the main events of the story are told, the implications of the experience are addressed from a variety of different perspectives, exploring the challenges and opportunities it presented. The story is seen through the lens of her identities as a daughter, a mother, a wife, a researcher, a yogi, and a part of the Jewish tradition. With both honesty and optimism, she presents her personal journey through universal themes of responsibility, loss, trauma, striving, connection, and compassion.

Dr. Steffany Moonaz is a research scientist living in the San Diego suburbs with her dear husband and kids. She completed her doctoral studies in public health at Johns Hopkins University, following prior education in dance and science at Oberlin College and the University of Maryland. As Research Director and Professor at Southern California University of Health Sciences, Dr. Moonaz studies the effects of yoga and other integrative health practices in the management of arthritis and chronic pain. She has a private practice as a certified yoga therapist and health coach, and trains yoga professionals to provide safe, inclusive, appropriate yoga practices for people with chronic joint disease. Her first book, "Yoga Therapy for Arthritis: A Whole-Person Approach to Movement and Lifestyle" was published in 2018 by Singing Dragon Press.