LIFE WITH A HOLE IN IT

That’s How The Light Gets In

LIFE WITH A HOLE IN IT: That’s How The Light Gets In deals with my husband’s five-year fight against a fatal cancer of the bone marrow. We had lost our only daughter to a childhood cancer when she was seven, so his diagnosis was a bitter blow.

If you are on the path to awakening, nonduality, etc., this book offers a surprisingly simple look into the life of someone whose beliefs are tested daily. I travel the fault line in my thinking that led, first to my breaking—and then to my healing into a higher awareness. There is no escape from the tests that awakening places in front of you; they must be endured. Follow me on my journey as I face my tests and come through successfully on the other side. Learn how I found peace and healing.

“… shines a bold light on one woman’s journey through her husband’s diagnosis and death from cancer and into the domain of a fierce wisdom and awakened heart. Ablaze with light!”
—Ronda LaRue
Author of Remembering Who You Really Are & The Art of Living Your Destiny!

Vicki Woodyard is one of those rare souls who can show us all how to turn the charcoal into a diamond through her creativity. Her words can guide us all to a place of healing.
—Bernie Siegel, MD
Author of Faith, Hope & Healing and 365 Prescriptions For The Soul

Vicki’s unique voice is honest, direct, and spiritually raw.
—Josh Baran, The Tao of Now

This is a book of truth, wisdom and humor. It comes from the bones, not the brain. A magnificent brew…buy this book! ”
— Mary Margaret Moore, author  of I Come as a Brother: The Teachings of Bartholomew.

This book is a treasure house of one woman’s honest and rigorous journey through loss to Oneness. If you, too, are moving towards Now, towards Here, towards Presence—take Vicki’s book with you.
—Elsa Joy Bailey, Concord, CA

It’s the sort of book that will stay with this reader for a long time. Vicki writes from the naked, beating heart of it all—and her honesty, fierce intelligence and humour combine with an absolute refusal to paper over the cracks. Life’s fullness—it’s harshness, its tenderness, its raw vibrancy—all are here. And resolutely embraced, even when it hurt. If you want to know what a warrior spirit is like, meet one in these pages. Highly recommended.
—H. C. Stark

In this book Vicki shares her heart rending and Wisdom permeated stories. By the time I got to page 14 I was in tears from the story of her daughter and the reason she `still write(s)’. This is a deeply moving account of personal tradgedy (primarily in the form of cancer that took the life of her young daughter and, then, husband) and how Vicki deeply accepted and transmuted that pain into the Wisdom revealed in this easy to read, simple and humbly profound account. The book didn’t leave my hands until I had read this entire offering of her heart and soul. Thank you, Dear Vicki, for a most generous contribution to the practice and feel of ‘letting It have you’.
—Leslie Read

Vicki’s writing is emotionally raw, intensely moving and often hilarious. She accomplishes with beauty what so many spiritual writers fail to do—describe awakening as it occurs in ordinary life. In her case, the ordinary life includes caring for her very ill husband, Bob, at the same time that she maintains an uncompromising look at the movement of her own spirit. There is no question that the message in Vicki’s book is that ordinary life is IT!
—H. Barrett

The longer anyone hangs around this planet, the more likely we are to notice or experience suffering. Dealing with it begins to require our attention. Vicki has been there, paid attention, and shared her gleanings eloquently. She has learned much about facing fear, and about enduring. Indeed, she has been successful at surmounting loss through her spiritual practice. Yet this is not a preachy book; it is about noticing and learning to cope, in gratitude, through prayer and meditation, without much in the way of theological discourse. She shares what she clearly considers her failings, too. Mere pain-avoidance is not a viable option in circumstances such as she has faced.
—Eric Chaffee