Author's Tranquility Press presents From There to Here, Journey of a Skinned Rabbit: Twists and Turns with a Divine Purpose by Sylvia Bryden-Stock, a memoir tracing the distance between a childhood dream and a calling understood through years of change.
The title reaches back to her birth in July 1943, when her appearance prompted the comparison to a skinned rabbit. From that beginning, Bryden-Stock recalls childhood health challenges, family life during and after the Second World War, and a persistent ambition to become a nurse.
Her memories have room for humor. A mother stretching scarce food into meals, strict routines and encounters from nursing life give the account its conversational character. The story moves through the discipline and surprises of nursing in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how the career she wanted became an education in people as well as practice.
Faith enters early. At ten, she attended a Billy Graham rally in London in 1954, an experience she describes as decisive in her relationship with Jesus. Yet the years that followed brought spiritual questioning and changes in belief alongside professional achievement.
Bryden-Stock follows those turns through nursing, business ventures and personal challenges. Looking back, she interprets her eventual return to Christian faith as a homecoming and a renewed understanding of purpose.
The account also reaches the pain of caring for her husband, Brian, through young-onset Alzheimer's disease. She describes that experience as part of the calling she came to recognize: helping others through the difficulties she had encountered.
The memoir makes space for uncertainty, disillusionment and the work of beginning again. Reaching a cherished goal did not settle everything. Nursing brought its own lessons, and later experiences required her to reconsider both her direction and the beliefs that had guided her since childhood.
Purchase “From There to Here” on Amazon to follow the nursing stories, difficult detours and spiritual reckoning behind one woman's understanding of what her life was preparing her to do.
About the Author
Sylvia Bryden-Stock is an author, speaker and accredited master coach with a background in nursing and business.
About Author's Tranquility Press
Author's Tranquility Press helps authors bring books to market through publishing, publicity, marketing, and distribution services.
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