Extreme Healing: Finding Your Inner Endurance Athlete

Does a Kickstarter Campaign fit on LinkedIn? A leader I admire, Tricia, suggested that when someone works hard on a project for many years, it fits LinkedIn. Here I am telling you about my Kickstarter Campaign for my book Extreme Healing: Finding Your Inner Endurance Athlete that launched TODAY October 12th, 2022 and will go for 34 days. I've poured my heart and soul into making this book a reality. I'd say yes, it fits on LinkedIn!

Extreme Healing: Finding Your Inner Endurance Athlete

Become an endurance athlete in the face of cancer, diabetes and trauma. Learn how.

“This personal and revealing book intertwines personal experiences — cancer, friendships, diabetes, suicide, childhood trauma, bankruptcy, family stress, athletic challenges — all of these real-life experiences delivered to you from Mari’s heart and her life’s path.” - Sally Edwards, MA, Author, Professional Triathlete, Techpreneur, and Founder of Heart Zones and Fleet Feet. Sacramento, California. Author of the Foreword of Extreme Healing.?

Have you ever wanted to write a book? Since I was a child I’ve loved writing. Along the way I’ve survived a lot. Turns out, at long last I have written the book I’ve talked about writing for more than ten years. It’s ready to get published, and for that I need you.?

This book is for you if you’ve ever wondered if you have it in you to do a long bike ride, run a 5K or do a triathlon. It’s especially for you if you have diabetes, are a cancer survivor, have asthma, struggle with your weight or have survived a lot of trauma. I invite you to give this book a read and see where it can take you.

Be in your body and move your body

I offer this book to the world and to you, as being IN one's body and not hovering outside it, and moving your body makes all the difference in your health.?

I didn’t know this most of my life.?

Because of the abuse, shame, and trauma I survived, I spent as little time in my body as I could. I was an expert at escape. Physical exercise and movement forced me into my body, where I did not want to be.

I’m not an age-group winner or even an age-group placer athlete. I run an 11:30 - 12 minute mile pace in running events, sometimes even slower. I have never won a race, and likely never will. I am not a fast cyclist or swimmer. I love cross country skiing, but I don’t skate ski. In other words, there’s nothing athletically special about me.

What I am is consistent. I find delicious joy in moving my body, entering races and being in community with other runners, bikers, swimmers and cross country classic skiers.

How to find this joy and the magic of endurance movement despite many challenges is what I share with readers in this book.

Kickstarter Campaign Launches TODAY, Wednesday, October 12, 2022

I don’t have deep pockets to publish this book on my own. That’s why I’m doing a pre-order Kickstarter Campaign. There are rewards that allow you to order an e-book version, a paperback version or a hardcover version of Extreme Healing.?

My all-or-nothing campaign goal is to raise $12,000 in 35 days.?

What I Need & What You'll Get

Extreme Healing: Finding Your Inner Endurance Athlete will be published with FriesenPress. The rewards of my Kickstarter Campaign are set up to be the pre-order tiers to help cover the costs for publishing this book. Money raised will go towards the following:

• The Editor I will work with to revise and publish my manuscript by late February 2023.
• The Cover Design of my book. (The mock-up you see is a placeholder)
• The Layout Design for the interior of my book (physical copy, e-book formats).
• The Copy editing for my book to do the final polish of the grammar and spelling prior to publication.
• The Launch & Promotion Efforts for my book when I publish early spring 2023.

I am offering some exclusive rewards for people who pre-order my book through my Kickstarter Campaign:

• Your name will appear in the Acknowledgments section of my book (“with Special Thanks to”).
• You will have the opportunity to be involved in selecting the final book cover.
• You will be invited to join my Author Community and get behind-the-scenes sneak peeks into the publishing process.

If more than the goal amount is raised, I will also work to create an Audio Book version of the book.

Go to Kickstarter and order your copy

It’s really easy. Just click through on this link and you’ll be taken to my Kickstarter campaign. You will see all the Reward options.?

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Thank you!