Flying on the Inside, Rachel Gotto
Flying on the Inside, Rachel Gotto
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Flying on the Inside
A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery

Author: Rachel Gotto

Narrator: Rachel Gotto

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2021

Synopsis

The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more…When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change.A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live.Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life.This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.

About Rachel Gotto

Rachel Gotto was born and grew up in Glandore in West Cork, a few short steps from the Atlantic Ocean. An adept boat person from an early age, and most at home on the waves, it was there she developed the tenacious spirit that later proved invaluable when faced with a litany of personal traumas and tragedies.Having lost her closest brother as a young man to cancer, Rachel was six months pregnant with her daughter when her husband died in a tragic diving accident. Diagnosed a few years later with a life-threatening brain tumour, she underwent life-saving surgery that resulted in her becoming paralysed. What followed was slow and painful recovery marred by a growing dependence on her prescribed medication.Now a celebrated keynote speaker, life coach and clinical hypnotherapist, Rachel lives on the west coast of Ireland, in County Galway, where she enjoys being in nature. She loves to swim, fish, read, walk, keep pet hens, and spend time with family and friends.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on November 04, 2021

This book should be a required read for all! I am left speechless after having read this memoir. The author is probably one of the strongest women alive! I chose this book as my Amazon Prime’s First Read for the month of November, and I am so happy that I did. This book is going to stay with me for......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 06, 2021

There is much to appreciate about Rachel Gotto's "Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery," an Amazon First Reads selection marking Gotto's admirable journey through childhood trauma along with dual tragedies of her brother's death at the age of 28 due to cancer and her husband's death......more

Goodreads review by Rae on December 16, 2021

This book starts out strong with a good story line and good story telling. Somewhere around the 2/3 mark it gets very self serving with excuses and very very detailed struggles to quite the medication. This woman's daughter is treated like an afterthought throughout the book There also is no descrip......more

Goodreads review by Branagan on November 07, 2021

Interesting story but too self focused It starts out well but progresses to a litany of seemingly unbearable symptoms so disturbing that it seems impossible anyone could bear them. I love medical stories but this one was just too depressing and unbelievable. Also the author focuses so much on herself......more

Goodreads review by Joanne on January 08, 2022

instead of flying, it should be crashing This book started out very interesting. She describes in detail the problem she was having, but it quickly became unreal. We never did understand where she had gotten the money in order to live the lifestyle that she was living. Also the way she gave up her li......more

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