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All Will Be Well is not just a book about a daughter suddenly finding herself becoming a caregiver for her mother. This is not just a book about the way life is upended for everyone in a family when a tragedy unexpectedly strikes. And it is not just about how cultural and religious beliefs impact decisions made prior to, during and after the tragedy becomes a way of life. This is a book about love. It is about how enduring familial love can be, even when relationships are complicated and infuriating. This is a book about how much self-love it takes to support and care for those we love, especially when doing those things feels impossible. All Will Be Well is about overcoming fear in order to live with acceptance, and still finding beauty and laughter in the midst of what is sometimes unbearably hard.

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Kim writes openly about what it's like to be in a position of caregiver for her mother who develops dementia in the aftermath of a stroke. She writes eloquently and movingly about experiences that can inform others who find themselves in a similar situation. I found her narrative to be searingly poignant and hopeful at the same time. - Cora M. Tellez, CEO, Sterling Administration Kim Fowler tells stories of love, pain, and emotional healing that followed her mother's massive stroke. She finds the meaning and reward in their struggle and comes out of it a stronger and more realized person. A valuable resource for anyone caring for failing elders. -David Spero, RN, author of The Inn by the Healing Path: Stories on the Road to Wellness In extremely compelling words, Kim Fowler conveys the story of her family's journey to assist her mother during her developing condition of dementia. While Kim's story is at once unique it also is one that so many families must face. Kim's is a touching and moving account. -Harry J. Elam Jr., President, Occidental College

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Kim Fowler loves beauty in words, art, people and in the changing of seasons. As a leadership coach, she listens for her clients' dissonance and helps them tune into the harmonies of their individual brilliance and rhythms. While working for the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, Kim co-authored Dreams of a City: The East Palo Alto Project with Prof. Harry J. Elam, Jr. for the book Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2001). Kim's writing was first recognized by her 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Haynes, who featured several of her pieces as part of a class project. In the 1970s, while living in Santa Fe, she wrote and acted in monologues for The Women's Performance Piece, which was invited to New York by Lewis Allen, a producer of Annie. That fell through and Kim left town but continued writing poetry and prose. She found strong inspiration and meaning in the varied natural worlds she experienced, especially in the Southwest which she continued to visit annually, enjoying time alone in the Pecos Wilderness and outside of Moab, UT. After her mother's stroke, writing this book became a tool for healing and grappling with the continual changes caused by her mom's dementia. Her poem Emergence in Four Parts was published in the online magazine Reinventing Home in December 2020.Kim has written and performed theatre pieces in the West and Midwest. She sang for fifteen years with Threshold Singers of the East Bay, singing to people in the last stage of their lives. She loves how travel cracks her open and how spending time alone in high places puts her back together again. She loves throwing parties where people tell her, You have the most interesting friends. She hopes to maybe one day slow down enough to have a dog own her. For more information, please visit www.kimfowlerauthor.com.

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