Chronic Blessings
Finding Life’s Greatest Joys within Your Deepest Heartache 

ebook now available on amazon and Barnes & Noble

Paperback and audiobook Coming april 9, 2019

Do you want to enjoy the life you are living, even as you face significant life challenges?

Are you grieving the loss of the life you planned?

Is your body or mind failing you?

Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging situations? The answer is a resounding YES.

Cristy Maddox searched for answers that were not coming; answers for a diagnosis to explain her symptoms. For nearly ten years, Cristy and her husband Greg researched an illness they had never heard of, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or POTS. An illness affecting over 2 million Americans and 1 in every 100 teenagers!

POTS, the invisible intruder, not only places Cristy at risk but her children as well. Feeling isolated and misunderstood, Cristy grieves the loss of the life she once knew.

But now, Cristy brings her findings and insights to you in this compelling, honest, and often too-real story, providing answers to the many perplexing questions surrounding chronic illness. She takes you on a journey of learning the purpose of hardship, a better way to view pain and how to allow God to recycle it for good.

Are you ready to discover that your greatest joys in life may be hidden in your deepest heartache?

Praise for Chronic Blessings

"Cristy’s story is gripping in itself as she shares her struggle with crippling disease, but the best part is the powerful assurance that a good and loving God is in charge of our lives and that he never allows anything to happen to us that won’t ultimately be for our greatest good. Christy finds God in the ordinary and the distressing - and shows us that we can too."

David VanDenburgh, D.Min.
Retired chair Department of Humanities, Kettering College, Kettering, Ohio

“An uplifting memoir about living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Cristy Maddox’s Chronic Blessings is an inspiring, faith-driven account full of powerful lessons. …

“The book’s language is conversational, with bits of humor interposed throughout, alongside rhetorical questions. The humor lightens the mood and plays well against overpowering accounts of the heartbreaking impact of POTS, both on Maddox and on her family. …

“Maddox is a sympathetic narrator whose willingness to admit to her faults—like being quick to judge other people without knowing all the facts—makes her story even more compelling. …

“… the book progresses with care, and powerful lessons emerge about handling challenging situations. Chronic Blessings is an enlightening memoir about the despair of living with chronic illness, through which wisdom is gleaned along the way.”

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