Sandy Brewer Pursuit Of Light An Extraordinary Journey Category:  Memoir Publisher: PeachTreeHouse Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 224 Copyright: August 29, 2007 ISBN-13: 9780979655449 Pursuit of Light is a stunning, inspiring true-life story. With compelling compassion, wit, and wisdom Sandy Brewer narrates the pathway out of darkness into light with such richness, that it is as though she is having a conversation with you in your living room. Pursuit of Light is a stunning, inspiring true-life story.  With compelling compassion, wit, and wisdom Sandy Brewer narrates the pathway out of darkness into light with such richness, that it is as though she is having a conversation with you in your living room.  In spite of the near-fatal abuse Brewer endured as a child, she not only overcame the handicaps of her own past but has also gone on to become a dynamically effective therapist, author, and inspirational speaker.  This is a gripping memoir, witty, powerful, and riveting, that details the profound lessons of her personal journey, and how they apply to people from all walks of life.   Brewer demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit and, using empowering and practical tools, teaches the "how to's" of choice.  Everyone's personal history is only the back-story, for no matter what transpired yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of one's being today.  Victimization is an experience not an identity.  We get to chose to reach for the promise of our greater potentials.   Excerpt "No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant to what lies within the core of one's being today." Sandy Brewer Author, Speaker, Therapist Visit my website for excerpt and listen to interviews, watch my videos, and much more... www.pursuitoflight.com

Putting Your Baggage In It's Place
In Pursuit of Light, the points of Light that Sandy Brewer brings out, the points about putting your baggage in its place and letting it support you, and you letting you grow through (them). It's a wonderful read. It is part memoir and part self-help. It is inspirational. And it's something that once you start it you will not be able to put it down. From page one!"

--Reviewed by Antoinette Kuritz, Founder of La Jolla Writers Conference, on KUSI "Good Morning, San Diego"


' Life Lesson'
The debut title of the newly launched publishing firm of PeachTreeHouse, "Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey" by public speaker, therapist, coach and humanitarian Sandy Brewer blends autobiography with compassion, wit and wisdom with illustrative self-help advice and example. The result is a compelling memoir revealing profound 'life lessons' that are as inspired and inspiring as they are thoughtful and thought-provoking. "Pursuit Of Light" is an informed and informative work that is superbly written, creating an engaging read from first page to last – and welcome, recommended addition to both community library Self-Help and American Biography collections, as well as personal self-improvement and inspirational reading lists."

One of the most respected book reviewers,
The Midwest Book Review


Through Suffering to the stars
Through Suffering to the Stars

Best Selling Memoir

Review by Allan Burns, About Books, Inc.

Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journeyby Sandy Brewer. Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9796554-4-9, published by PeachTreeHouse, Inc, P.O. Box 1008, Carlsbad, CA 92008. (760) 230-8123. www.pursuitoflight.com

Is your life what has happened to you, or is it what you choose to make of it? Do you have a choice to alter what you are, simply by viewing your life, as the poet A. R. Ammons has put it, “by the light of a different necessity”?Light: As the title suggests, this is the master trope of Sandy Brewer’s harrowing but also inspiring memoir, Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey. The abuse Brewer endured as a child was so horrific a reader may be forgiven for wondering why she didn’t go insane or commit suicide. Remarkably, Brewer not only overcame the handicaps of her own past but has also gone on to become an extremely effective therapist and inspirational speaker. Now, she has published a gripping and cathartic memoir that shares the profound lessons of her personal story.Pursuit of Light has a double focus: It narrates the tragic story of Brewer’s childhood and also expounds the mature philosophical and spiritual perspective she has developed, which has allowed her to get beyond seeing herself as a victim. A reader quickly discovers the enormous gulf between what happened to her and what she has chosen to make of her life. The flashbacks into the nightmare world of her youth, in which mental, physical, and sexual abuse were the norm, are italicized and narrated in present tense, setting them off from the rest of the text and helping to lend them a startling immediacy no reader will soon forget.The details of these horrific vignettes, however, are not the point of the book; they merely provide the necessary context for comprehending what is the point—that even those who have suffered the most traumatic forms of abuse can choose to take control of their destinies instead of allowing themselves to be tyrannized by the invisible bonds of self-pity and passive acceptance of an identity defined by victimization. The conclusion made me think of the conclusion of Walden, which is also about renewal and living in the moment. Ultimately, Pursuit of Light is about freedom and choice.As Brewer writes, “Choice impacts every area of our lives. Being a victim is a choice. Living life in the constant melodrama of a tedious soap opera…is a choice. Happiness is a choice.”

Sandy Brewer developed seminal techniques that allowed her to conquer the crippling legacy of her past. Enlightened and empowered by her journey of self-discovery, she is now committed to helping others make the same transition out of the darkness and into the light. This empowering narrative is a centerpiece of that work. Pursuit of Light provides an inspiring roadmap for how to follow the path Sandy Brewer has herself followed per aspera ad astra—“through suffering to the stars.”