Alchemy of Resilience

A tenderhearted and fierce memoir of healing from loneliness, despair, and excruciating physical pain. Born to a troubled mother, who passed her trauma on to her daughter, Hertha Lund carried this burden throughout her life, always struggling with a sense of not belonging to any group, to any point on the map, to humanity as a whole. In search of spiritual wholeness following a path electrified by an undercurrent of deep pain, Hertha went from being a cow boss in Montana to a journalist in Phila