To Brokenly Live On (Digital Edition)

First 2 chapters will be available for pdf download with this purchase.

What do you do when surviving becomes a full time job?

For Adam F. Beyer, MSW, LMSW, chronic illness changed nearly everything. His body became unpredictable. His independence was challenged. And after years spent helping others as a clinician, he suddenly found himself navigating the healthcare system from the other side.

He became the patient.

To Brokenly Live On is Adam’s candid account of living with chronic illness, autonomic dysfunction, and a body that seems determined to operate in overdrive. But this is more than a memoir about being sick.

It is about what happens to a person when illness begins reshaping identity, relationships, work, family, hope, and the seemingly ordinary parts of life most of us take for granted.

Drawing from both his professional experience and his own deeply personal journey, Adam explores the realities that often exist beyond the examination room: the exhaustion of constantly explaining yourself, the frustration of searching for answers, the grief of losing pieces of the life you once knew, and the complicated task of learning how to move forward when “getting back to normal” may no longer be the goal.

There are no miracle cures here. No promises that positive thinking will make everything disappear.

Instead, Adam offers honesty, perspective, practical insight, and something chronic illness can make incredibly difficult to hold onto: hope.

Because there is a difference between surviving your life and actually living it.

To Brokenly Live On is for anyone navigating chronic illness, anyone who loves someone who is, and anyone who has ever reached the point where simply surviving is no longer enough.

You may have to live differently.

You may have to live imperfectly.

You may even have to live brokenly.

But you still get to live.