Heidi Bright Parales

Heidi Bright, MDiv, author, speaker, editor, and wellness coach, is in radical remission from stage 4 cancer.

During 2009, specialists predicted Heidi would die within months from an aggressive end-stage soft-tissue sarcoma. She has been free of evidence of disease since August 2011.

Now she combines her journalism and theological background with fresh insights each Thursday on her Thriver Soup blog, www.heidibright.com/blog.

"Thriver Soup: A Feast for Living Consciously During the Cancer Journey" will be traditionally published by Sunstone Press, joining Heidi’s two other traditionally published books.

Her first book, "Hidden Voices: Biblical Women and Our Christian Heritage" (Smyth & Helwys, 1998), has maintained a 5-star rating on Amazon.com and has been cited in three other books.

Heidi's second book, "Keeping Sabbath: Daily Life" (Circle Books/John Hunt Publishing, Ltd., 2010), is part of the United Church of Christ Faith Practices series using a devotional format.