Life is a Garden to Cultivate is a book that will guide readers to reflect on their lives and discover the power they have to live a joyful and fulfilling life. By sharing stories about her personal experiences as a Latina immigrant woman with a physical disability, and her professional experiences as an educator for students with disabilities for thirty years, Pascuala Herrera describes the lessons she has learned that have steered her towards identifying and working towards overcoming her life’s challenges. Using the ABCs, she encourages readers to reflect on barriers that hinder them from living a better life. Each chapter includes reflection questions that assist readers in making new discoveries about their own lives.
Life can be difficult for everyone, but it can also be marvelous! Like a beautiful garden, everyone’s life needs to be constantly cultivated to have a better life. Working on our lives is never easy or ever complete, but with reflection one is led to understand the necessary changes that will lead to personal growth. Each person has one life so it should be lived the best way possible. Just like a beautiful flower, a person’s life can flourish no matter what obstacles are faced.
About the author
Pascuala Herrera was a Professor and Accessibility Specialist at Harper College for 30 years and now is a full-time consultant and award-winning author of a memoir titled Not Always a Valley of Tears which is also available in Spanish. She is also the author of a children’s book titled My Mom Rocks; Her Chair Rolls with a version in Spanish. She was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Due to childhood polio, she is physically disabled and uses a motorized wheelchair. She received her BA and M. ED from De Paul University in Chicago. She is a frequent local and national presenter on the topic of her life experience, disability awareness, motivation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and the importance of education for individuals with disabilities and Latino students. As a Latina, disabled woman, Pascuala inspires and motivates others to believe that the impossible can sometimes be possible.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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