Brace for Impact: The Search for Meaning in Near Death and Hope in New Life--voices from Flight 1549 - Softcover

What Passengers of Flight 1549 Want Others to Know About Second Chances "Brace for impact." Three simple words that proclaimed to all 150 passengers on board US Airways Flight 1549 on that cold, crisp New York afternoon of January 15, 2009, that their plane was about to go down in the icy Hudson River. Three simple words that churned up their fear that the next two minutes would be their final moments on earth and spurred their most heartfelt, spontaneous prayers. We all know about the stunning tale of survival against all odds that followed. But there is a different, more meaningful, and more timely story that has yet to be fully told. What happened to these passengers when they went home to their families, their homes, their jobs, and everything else familiar but somehow not the same? What has been the real impact, not of a disastrous crash but of a gift of a 'new' life? What can any of us learn from the honest and open sharing of ordinary people who came back from the brink of death? Brace for Impact answers these questions and more by taking you inside the hearts, minds, and souls of twenty-five passengers and first responders and what life is like after near death.

Dorothy Firman, Ed.D. is the New York Times best-selling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daugher Soul (HCI 2003) and two other books in the Chicken Soup series, as well as Daughters and Mothers: Making it Work. An author, educator, trainer, and psychotherapist with more than thirty years of experience, Dr. Firman has appeared on Oprah and dozens of other media forums. Her books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Dr. Firman is a professor of psychology at Union Institute & University and the director of training at The Synthesis Center. Visit the author at www.motherdaughterrelations.com, www.synthesiscenter.org or http: //braceforimpact.hcibooks.com. Kevin Quirk, is the author of Not Now, Honey, I'm Watching the Game (Simon & Schuster/Fireside 1997), which was featured by ABC's 20/20, CBS, NPR, Redbook, Men's Health, the Washington Post, and more than 100 other media and Internet forums. A former sports journalist with the Charlotte Observer and a former correspondent for Sports Illustrated and the Boston Globe, Kevin now assists dozens of clients with memoirs, autobiographies and other nonfiction book projects through A Writer's Eye. Visit the author at awriterseye.com or http: //braceforimpact.hcibooks.com.