Re-Writing My Future: A Stroke In Time
REVIEW BY Janet Mawdesley June 7, 2021, 9:00 am
Having a stroke in your early thirties is a lifestyle altering event, let alone when you are a person who was born with the additional skills of a multi-talented sensitive. Jan Toomer is such a person and when she suffered an event that saw her in a coma for two weeks, returning to everyday life seriously unable to remember much of her former life, unable to understand what had happened to her and unable to continue life as a ‘work-aholic’, her life changed dramatically.
In Re-Writing My Future: A Stroke In Time she documents her journey, her frustration at remaining undiagnosed for many years and the incredible help and hope she discovered on her healing journey. Intimate times in her life are shared, not in self-pity but as a means to reach out to others caught in a similar situation, offering her journey and understanding to all in an effort to help others.
Beginning with her abusive childhood as a child with unusual abilities and a parent who did not understand filled with fear and hatred, she details her life as her various skills developed, not for one minute understanding that not everyone could ‘talk’ with the frogs in the swamp at the end of the garden, and that trying to fly down the stairs was considered as seriously dysfunctional.
Her teen years were spent trying to escape from these ‘gifts’ and once she really began to understand just what she had been given, her life pathway changed dramatically. As she notes several time, be very careful what you wish for because more often than not, it is eventually granted!
She shares rebuilding her life, learning to accept the damage done and then working to find ways to rebuild her neural pathways, which have allowed her to once again accept and work with the many gifts she was given as a newborn child.
Philosophical and very grounded Re-Writing My Future: A Stroke In Time holds out a helping hand to accepting the new you, accepting that what has happened can be overcome and lived with, but in a different style than before the event occurred, which in many ways, from an emotional perspective is and was one of the hardest lessons she had to learn and accept
As she says the most important aspect of what she learned is to be herself- her full self, quirks and all, which is a work in progress and one that is ongoing. Jan Toomer hopes that by sharing her journey, she has ‘helped others through their life journey’.
| Author | Jan Toomer |
| ISBN | 9788664222258 |
| Website | https://www.metaphysical-studies.com/tag/jan-toomer/ |
| Distributor | Jan Toomer |
| Released | 2020 |
Re-Writing My Future is available on Amazon’s Kindle and in paperback. It’s also available in Las Cruces, New Mexico at:
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Official Review: Re-Writing My Future by Jan Toomer
Post by Guda LM » 23 Nov 2020, 05:28
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of “Re-Writing My Future” by Jan Toomer.]
Jan Toomer is a Metaphysical, Spiritual, and Paranormal Consultant. Since her childhood days, she realized she was unique and recognized her special abilities. Jan would spend her time communicating and understanding different animals and plants, was able to read people’s energies, and even see and commune with the deceased. However, life was not easy; her mother was always her most prominent critic. She would verbally abuse and frequently called her a freak or an abomination whenever Jan would exercise her abilities. Her father always supported and accepted her but still instructed her to keep the abilities quiet and private. This resulted in Jan believing she is cursed and feeling ashamed about her nature, leading to a self-destructive phase in her juvenile years.
Soon enough, she embraced who she is and began exploring and using her powers to help people and bring healing. After an abusive first marriage, she met Jeff, her current husband, who accepted her without question and encouraged her to live to the fullest. Another challenge soon came when their daughter JoAnna became an addict and suicidal. They struggled over the years to keep her clean and through therapy. The final life-changing experience was a stroke that left Jan in a coma for two weeks. As a result, life has been different, and she has worked through the years to re-balance her physical and metaphysical interactions, as well as accept her new self. Re-Writing My Future is a book that details life as a stroke survivor, the various physical and mental changes one goes through as well as the effect it has on family and close friends.
The book is very descriptive and chronologically arranged from her childhood to her adult years. It is a mix of narrations, blog articles, and recorded interviews with Jan’s husband. The author uses comparisons like equating the brain to a cookbook and stroke as an action that indiscriminately jumbles up and erases some recipes and completely disrupting the order. This artistic comparison makes the depictions relatable, bringing a better understanding of the complex scientific concepts. Her paranormal and metaphysical life, like her ability to converse with animals, sense and avoid danger, and receive instructions from her ‘team’, is also humorously explained and vividly detailed, making the book quite intriguing and captivating.
My favorite aspect of the book is how the characters from the several short stories are anonymous yet familiar enough to relate with them. She never mentions or reveals their real identities, but you still get to visualize and engage with them and the stories. I equally love the chapter arrangement of the book; they are five and each broken down into creative and fun sub-headings that inform the reader what to expect. There is nothing to dislike about the read; it is both informative and insightful. Apart from explaining her abilities as a multi-talented sensitive, she also highlights the five types of stroke and the body changes as well as exercising patience when dealing with stroke survivors.
The book is excellently edited; I did not find any grammatical or spelling errors. The language employed is intelligible and with no profanities, making the book suitable for any interested readers. The book concludes pleasingly with a six-step guide to moving forward after a life-altering experience, as well as a series of questions and answers that ties up the entire read. I, therefore, believe Re-writing My Future deserves a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. I recommend it to anyone looking for an inquisitive read about the expansive and mysterious nature of life, its alternate forms and dimensions, as well as living your best and happy self as an imperfect being.
Re-Writing My Future is available on Amazon’s Kindle and in paperback.
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