What happens when surviving is no longer enough? In Breathing Again: Living Again After Trauma, Grief and Loss, Lori May tells the deeply personal story of a life shaped by childhood trauma, complicated love, motherhood, devastating loss, and the unexpected journey back to herself.
Forced to flee home at seventeen, Lori learned early how to survive. She built a career, raised the son she adored, endured relationships that challenged her sense of worth, and kept moving forward. But when her son Nathan died, the survival skills that had carried her through a lifetime were no longer enough. Grief reduced her world until simply continuing to live felt almost impossible.
Her way back did not come through grand revelations or easy answers. It came quietly: through the love of rescue dogs, walks beside the Pacific, unexpected laughter, creativity, friendship, and finally, writing. Slowly, Lori began to discover that grief and joy could exist together, and that moving forward did not require leaving behind the people she loved or denying what she had endured.
