Still Standing: The Reconstruction of Self - Life. After. Impact. (Paperback or Softback)

Beth McDonough covered high-profile murders, bridge collapses, kidnappings, and riots.

As a hard-hitting journalist for thirty years, she took viewers behind the crime scene tape. Her life ran on achievement, adrenaline, and alcohol.

She reported from ground zero on September 11th, stood in the field the day Jayme Closs escaped her captor. She reported from Paisley Park revealing Prince's sudden death. Beth documented the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd where she was wounded while the camera kept rolling.

Still Standing takes readers there too. And then, to a place even harder to witness: the story she lived while telling everyone else's.

Two DUI arrests. Her mugshots plastered on the news she used to report. A coveted career on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News: gone. The woman who covered disasters was now living one.

What followed couldn't be called a "comeback." It was more daunting. And more permanent.

Beth inspected her own breakdown the way she investigated every story that came before it: with precision, honesty, and the deeper question she never thought of asking herself:

"What separates the people who rebuild after crisis from the people who repeat?"

Beth spent years probing that question from the inside. What she discovered became the STILL STANDING(TM) Framework. Five structural beams. A practical blueprint. Built from the rubble. Tested by time.

Still Standing is written for anyone who's ever wondered if what broke you can become what rebuilds you.

She speaks from 18 years of deliberate, documented reconstruction.

Beth is an Emmy, Murrow, and duPont-Columbia Award-winning journalist.

Beth McDonough is an author, award-winning broadcast journalist, keynote speaker, recovery advocate, and life rebuild strategist. She guides people through their lowest moments to rebuild what stands next after public collapse when visibility is high, consequences are real, and the path forward is unclear.Beth is a living case study in recovery, resilience, and reconstruction. She occupies the space between catastrophe and comeback.An investigative reporter for thirty years, Beth covered disasters until she became one. Two highly publicized DUIs. Fired twice. First by the newsroom, then by society. Her work speaks to people whose mistakes live online permanently.Beth understands what it takes to recreate a life while the world watches, because she did the work on herself first. Alcohol took her down once, an invisible illness tried to again. The breakdowns became her blueprint for showing others how to reemerge structurally stronger than before, from the inside out, when willpower isn't enough. Beth shares an original message for audiences hungry for something stronger than motivation and more compassionate than discipline.Beth developed the STILL STANDING(TM) method, a five-step framework that treats recovery and resilience like reconstruction projects for life AFTER impact. The approach is evidence-based, trauma-aware, shame-informed, and pressure-tested.Before her collapse, Beth documented some of the most defining breaking news events of our time:9/11 terrorist attacksOklahoma City bombingI-35W Minneapolis bridge collapsePrince's sudden deathEscape of kidnapped teen Jayme ClossCivil unrest following George Floyd's death in police custody - Beth was wounded by gunfire while reportingHer work has appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News along with countless podcasts, newspapers, magazines, and talk shows.She's earned multiple Emmy Awards, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and the prestigious duPont-Columbia Journalism Award for her coverage of George Floyd's death and the racial reckoning that followed.Beth authored two memoirs, STANDBY and STILL STANDING-one book opens the wound. The second shows the rebuild. Beth has also been featured in a Lifetime documentary with survivor advocate Elizabeth Smart called Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case.Beyond the newsroom, Beth channeled her love for animals into owning a dog daycare before returning to journalism with renewed perspective. Today, she lives in southern Utah surrounded by red-rock mountains and five national parks. Sharing life with her rescue wiener dog, she continues to tell stories-this time her own-about resilience, redemption, reinvention, and finding peace after a career spent in the fast lane.