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New Book by Brooke Ellison Looks at Life with Disability from Different Angles… and Asks Us to Do the Same

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Look Both Ways is available for purchase on Amazon.com

Brooke has learned what can be accomplished when fear makes room for hope, how a positive attitude can reframe a struggle into an opportunity to move forward, and how limitations can inspire creativity.


STONY BROOK, N.Y. (PRWEB)

Nearly two decades since her film-adapted autobiography, Miracles Happen, Brooke Ellison, PhD has released Look Both Ways, a uniquely honest confessional that imparts lessons she has learned from living more than three decades with quadriplegia. In Look Both Ways, Ellison offers a more mature, more contemplative look at life after the accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down at age eleven. Using personal and, at times, emotionally challenging events in her life as a platform, Ellison compels readers to reflect upon experiences in their own lives and thrive as a result of them.

“Brooke has learned what can be accomplished when fear makes room for hope, how a positive attitude can reframe a struggle into an opportunity to move forward, and how limitations can inspire creativity.” – Rick Hansen, Founder, Rick Hansen Foundation, former Paralympian (gold medalist)

“The real lesson of her compelling story is to remind us that people with disabilities need to be defined not by what part of them is physically broken, but as full and complete human beings.” – Susan Solomon, President and CEO of the New York Stem Cell Foundation

Look Both Ways is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

About Brooke Ellison

Brooke Ellison, PhD, is an associate professor of health policy and medical ethics at Stony Brook University. Following a car accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator at age eleven, Ellison went on to graduate from Harvard University in 2000 and received her master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2002. She ran for New York State Senate in 2006 and was granted an honorary degree from Rutger’s University in 2011. In 2014 Ellison was chosen to be a World Forum Young Global Leader. She joined the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2017 and was chosen to be a Truman National Security Project Political Partner in 2018. She was appointed to the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission in 2020. Her first book, Miracles Happen (2002), was adapted into a movie directed by Christopher Reeve, The Brooke Ellison Story. She lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her family. For more information go to: http://www.brookeellison.com.

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