Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

by Ken Wilber

Coming soon as a Major Motion Picture

Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

• ISBN10: 1570627428
• ISBN13: 9781570627422
• Publish Date: 6 February 2001 (first published 17 November 1992)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 1
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781570627422

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

When Ken and Treya met it was love at first touch. They just hugged and hugged. A few months later they were married. 10 days after marrying they found out that Treya had breast cancer. This is the story of how they dealt with the cancer, the treatment and Treya's final days. It deals honestly with the pain and the overwhelming work that dealing with cancer can be both for the patient and the caregiver. Ken is a writer and philosopher and this is quite clearly reflected in the book while the two of them try to come to terms with cancer and try to understand why them and why now.

It is a story with deep sadness but the two of them have such a feeling of heartfelt joy in the world and in their lives that it seeps through. Yes sometimes the philosophising can be a bit much, and you would need to know something about Buddhism to get some of what's going on, but still it's an interesting variation on the theme. A book I could only read in small amounts at a time to fully understand what was going on.