How Dementia Healed Me
I Don’t Have Dementia. But Dementia Is Part of My Story.
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I had watched my marriage through the eyes of grief; years earlier I saw myself standing at a graveside. I had held on so tight, for so long, to the wooden casket of my failing marriage that my fingernails had grown into the wood. As I moved through the grieving process, one day I realized that God had cut those fingernails, and so I just stood there, by that casket. For a long time. And then I watched as the casket was lowered into the grave. And I became the one shoveling dirt, shovel-load by shovel-load, onto the top of that casket. This took months. I didn’t hurry. I couldn’t. I needed every slow second of those efforts to come to terms with the death of my marriage. About a year after the divorce was final, I watched myself place a single yellow flower on that mound of dirt. It was a warm sunny day. I was clean, dressed nice, and had a gentle smile of relief and rest on my face. I turned, I walked away and I breathed.
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It was a mind-blowing and humbling moment when Ally Burch realized that God had chosen to use her work with people living with dementia to bring her deep and lasting healing. A survivor of childhood trauma and a failed marriage, Ally has been on a journey of healing for-practically-ever, and God has brought healing in ways that were so intentional, so personal, that there was no doubt the circumstances and people related to her healing were only of God. How Dementia Healed Me tells the remarkable story, while giving hope that folks with dementia can be loved well and know joy, and people caring for them can be touched in powerful ways in the process.
About the Author
Ally Burch earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Occupational Therapy and has worked mostly with folks with a few gray hairs for the last decade. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner, speaker, author, content expert, trainer, consultant, business owner, and lover of people. She is the Mom of four great kids, a daughter, sister, niece, and friend. Most profoundly, she has been a woman of faith since she trusted Jesus Christ at the ripe old age of four. And, she is a survivor; one who decided early in life that she wanted to do it different, to get it right.