![]() ![]() ![]() The fresh trauma of the firestorm sparked a quest: what treasure awaited if Elisa learned to trust human nature? Vivid, poetic, and intimate, This or Something Better reveals how true healing of deep wounds happens one exquisite layer at a time-and invites us each to consider and embrace our own path toward wholeness and authenticity. Through teen pregnancy, her baby’s stillbirth, and a mystical near-death experience at eighteen, nature shaped her character, and it later informed her wildly successful career. In This or Something Better, Elisa revisits her past and the one force in which she has always found true kinship: the wild river. But when she fled the midnight firestorm without alerting a single neighbor, she had to ask herself: Who does that? Taking stock of her life one New Year's Day, Noelle Oxenhandler found it sadly wanting. A loving wife, mother, and grandmother, Elisa thought she had reckoned with her early childhood trauma. The Wishing Year is a captivating memoir of one woman's courageous year-long journey to make her most fervent wishes come true. ![]() The devastating fire torched thousands of acres, but for Elisa, a world-class decorative artist, it was her reaction that night that cracked her wide open. When the Sonoma Complex fire came to Elisa Stancil Levine’s California doorstep in 2017, her world changed overnight. ![]()
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