My New Normal ― Learning to Thrive With Chronic Illness

Living a life with chronic illness can be like navigating a difficult, winding road on a journey filled with choices and questions, hopes and tears. We may see the signs along the way leading us in the right direction, yet we can be distracted by doubts or by the promise of a shortcut. So how do we find the way to healing and peace, avoiding the obstacles and distractions along the road?

My New Normal is an inspiring memoir of one woman’s experience confronting—and managing—chronic illness. Through introspective moments of pain and doubt, author Alison Carter reveals how she was able to renew her faith and find peace, and she invites you on her search for answers as she navigates opinions and beliefs about illness, reflects on why we suffer, and discovers how to find purpose when normal no longer exists.

From the moment she admitted that something was wrong, and even up to her arrival at acceptance, Alison’s faith faced moments of both heartbreaking hesitation and uplifting renewal. Join Alison on her journey as she learns to define and redefine what it means to thrive while living with chronic illness.

Alison Carter is an author, blogger, mentor, and speaker, and she is intent on finding the beauty in mundane moments and the blessings in the storms. As a broken woman mended by the love of Jesus, she believes that every experience and lesson learned entwine together to create a story worth telling, and she hopes to encourage women to live out their own redemptive stories. Alison is also the founder of Life on Granite Ridge, an online ministry where she shares honest reflections on her life as a wife, mother, and step-mom, and writes about the challenges of living with an autoimmune disease. She joyfully serves alongside her husband as a marriage mentor, and she is active in a variety of ministries.