Rachel Beck: Finding Your Way When Life Changes Your Plans

Even when life throws the hardest curve balls, “the end” can turn into the start of something beautiful. Tune in to listen to Rachel Beck’s story on how life changed her path and how she thrived from it.

Born an orphan in a remote village in India, the author V. Lakshmi was later adopted and raised by a white Jewish family in America. The mysterious death of her biological mother foreshadows the sensitive feminine health issues V. would face in her life, including a twenty-year battle with endometriosis, infertility, failed adoption, and the decision to embrace hysterectomy as way of creating new life. V.'s cross-cultural adoption love story flies in the face of society’s expectations for women to look a “certain way” and slip comfortably into the American Dream.

Her teaching memoir "Finding Your Way When Life Changes Your Plans" offers inspiring perspective to women, adoptive parents, and adoptees with its frank discussion of emotions surrounding all sides of adoption, encounters with racism, her path to a loss of motherhood, and her courageous rebirth—illustrating how “the end” of one road is the beginning of another…and how the unforeseen is also beautiful and perhaps more fulfilling than we could have ever imagined!