No Services for 80 Miles: Lessons I Learned From My Heart Attack About Stress, Faith and Choosing a Life That Actually Matters

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What happens when the life you’ve been living suddenly isn’t the life you want anymore?

In August 2024, I had a heart attack.

I was 56 years old and traveling through Montana when I found myself on a stretch of highway where the next services were eighty miles away. I never imagined that the trip would end with a heart attack, a hospital stay and a diagnosis that didn’t make much sense.

There was no major blockage. No neat explanation. Just a heart that had been through something serious – and a woman who suddenly had to take a hard look at the way she was living.

This book is not a medical guide. It’s not a story about having everything figured out. And it is a collection of perfect answers.

It’s what I learned afterward.

About stress.

About faith.

About the things we convince ourselves we have to tolerate.

About how easy it is to spend our lives doing what we think we’re supposed to do while quietly putting off the life we actually want.

Most of all, it’s about realizing that sometimes the wake up call isn’t about changing everything. Sometimes it’s about finally paying attention to what matters.

Inside these pages are 18 lessons I learned from my heart attack and the life that came before it, along with Scripture, personal reflections and journal prompts to help you think about your own life.

You don’t have to wait for your own eighty mile stretch of road before you start asking the important questions.

What is costing you your peace?

What are you tolerating that you don’t have to?

What have you been putting off?

You don’t have to have all the answers.

You just have to be willing to start asking better questions.

Maybe that’s where the real journey begins.