REVEALING GRACE

A Story About a Cancer Adventure and a Community

2nd Edition Released October, 2025:
Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Revised Edition - 20 Years Later

Book Description

What happens when life gets interrupted by the unthinkable? How do you continue doing everything you've always done—raising children, managing a household, maintaining relationships—while simultaneously navigating a health crisis you never saw coming?

Twenty years ago, Amy Conn faced this exact challenge when cancer arrived uninvited into her busy life as a mother and educator. But instead of viewing her diagnosis as a tragedy to survive, she chose to see it as an adventure to navigate—a perspective that changed everything.

Revealing Grace is more than a cancer memoir. It's a roadmap for anyone whose life has taken an unexpected turn. Through honest storytelling and hard-won wisdom, Conn explores how we learn to hold both crisis and joy, fear and hope, vulnerability and strength—all at the same time.

This isn't a story about beating cancer; it's about discovering what gets revealed when life strips away everything non-essential and shows us who we really are, who truly loves us, and what we're actually capable of becoming.

What makes this 20-year anniversary edition special:

• Updated perspective: Written by someone who is now two decades cancer-free, with the wisdom that only comes from time and distance

• Universal relevance: While cancer treatment has evolved dramatically since 2005, the human experience of resilience, community support, and personal transformation remains timeless

• Expanded insights: Includes reflections from Amy's journey as a yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, and wellness guide—paths that grew directly from her cancer experience

• Family perspective: Features chapters written from her children's viewpoint, offering unique insights into how families navigate crisis together

Perfect for readers who:

• Are facing their own health challenges or supporting someone who is

• Want to understand how community becomes medicine during difficult times

• Need permission to see their challenges as adventures rather than tragedies

• Are interested in the intersection of medical treatment and holistic healing

• Seek stories of authentic resilience without toxic positivity

Amy Conn brings over three decades of experience as an educator, 20+ years as a yoga instructor, and deep training in energy healing to this deeply personal yet universally relevant story. She founded A Quality Life Community, a non-profit providing free wellness programs for cancer survivors and their families, and continues to guide others through her private practice in Salt Lake City.

Revealing Grace reminds us that healing happens not just in our bodies, but in our relationships, our perspectives, and our capacity to help others on their own unexpected journeys. Some interruptions, it turns out, can become invitations to a life more grace-filled than we ever imagined possible.

"This book isn't just about surviving cancer—it's about discovering that life can be interrupted without being destroyed." - Amy Conn

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The secret of cancer is to not feed it, not give it any recognition beyond what is necessary, and not give it attention. Rather, love the working, healthy parts of the body. Love the parts that are nourishing and life giving. Self-acceptance begins with the self.

Revealing Grace: A Story About a Cancer Adventure and a Community began as a memoir but rapidly expanded to a fantastic adventure of personal, physical and political insights. The scope of survivorship extended far beyond Amy's own experience broadening to an entire community of survivors including the astounding world promise that cancer death and cancer suffering will end by 2015. What is the recipe for surviving and surpassing cancer? Amy Conn has a few ideas that The American Cancer Society are incorporating, shedding new insights to cancer recovery for self, family, community and the whole world.

Written by cancer survivor and yoga instructor Amy Conn, this wise and compassionate field guide inspires those touched by cancer to live more fully and less fearful during times that appear most challenging. Conn’s is the first book to navigate the whole cancer experience. Revealing Grace offers practical ways to health body, mind and spirit; from evasive radiation and chemotherapy treatments to ways of including loved ones in this profound evolving healing practice. A poignant story that blends a personal cancer awakening with a mission to develop a Non-Profit Organization: Quality of Life Yoga Program designed to support not just the individual, but also the entire family towards self-healing. This book and non-profit organization are Conn’s contribution to fulfilling this powerful world promise.