Life Interrupted - Softcover

Rehbein, Zoe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1764073975 ISBN 13: 9781764073974

Publisher: Bowerbird Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Life Interrupted: A Guide to Navigating Your Child's Diagnosis is a heartfelt and practical guide for parents thrust into the chaos of a devastating diagnosis for their child. With gentle honesty and deeply personal reflections woven throughout, this book offers a lifeline for navigating the overwhelming emotions, complex decisions, and altered relationships that come in the wake of life-changing news.

Written for those walking an unthinkable path, Life Interrupted explores how to survive the initial shock, stay grounded through medical uncertainty, and manage the emotional toll of caregiving. It provides practical guidance for working with healthcare teams, advocating for your child, and holding onto a sense of self when everything feels upended.

This book also acknowledges the spiritual dimension of crisis-the questions, the doubts, and the quiet search for meaning. Whether rooted in faith, a sense of something greater, or a longing for peace, Life Interrupted makes space for the sacred amid the struggle.

More than a survival guide, Life Interrupted is an invitation to grow through pain. Through grief, fear, and disruption, it gently explores how strength, clarity, and unexpected beauty can emerge from life's hardest seasons.

For any parent facing the unimaginable, this is a steady, compassionate companion, offering hope and hard-won wisdom through the darkest of days.

About this title

About the Author

Zoë Rehbein is a writer, advocate, and mother of three whose life was forever changed when her youngest child was diagnosed with a complex medical condition. In her debut book, Life Interrupted: A Guide to Navigating Your Child's Diagnosis, Zoë offers a compassionate and practical roadmap for families facing the unimaginable, drawing from her lived experience and years of advocacy work with the Children's Tumour Foundation.A passionate supporter of families navigating the medical system, Zoë has been a driving force behind community fundraising efforts, patient support initiatives, and awareness campaigns. Her tireless work has earned her recognition at both grassroots and national levels.When she's not writing or reading, Zoë can usually be found cheering from the sidelines of a football field, or in the waiting room of a hospital-places that have become part of her rhythm as a mother and fierce advocate. She lives in Brisbane with her husband and three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bowerbird Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1764073975
• ISBN 13: 9781764073974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172