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New York Book Festival’s 2012 Self-Publishing Honorable Mention for Today is a Good Day for Marshmallows – a mother’s memoir 

In less than sixty days, author and doctor Kristi Hellenbrand would suddenly lose the ability to walk. The brightest doctors would not be able to figure out why. A cross between Cheryl Strayed’s physical and emotional journey in Wild, Dr. Samuel Harrington’s informative and inspiring experience of chronic illness and death in At Peace, and Barbara Kingsolver’s journalistic investigation in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, author Kristi Hellenbrand hopes to bring social awareness to chronic Lyme Disease sufferers and inspire education and research into what some call the next epidemic.

Part memoir, part research thesis, the author reveals with raw honesty her journey through Lyme Disease and the seemingly insurmountable passage to rediscovering wellness. In 2020 a sudden and mysterious illness - said to not exist in her home state - took everything from her. This is the story of the deep, dark place that only grief takes you, but also the story of how she saves her own life.