Risa August
From Risa’s website, risaaugust.com:
After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa’s life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime—six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway. The ride becomes a challenge unlike anything she’s ever faced. She wonders if the woman she once was will ever return or whether the new woman rising up in her place might just be the person she was meant to be all along.
Today, Risa is a Gestalt therapist and certified in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). She is also an advocate of early detection of acromegaly, the disease she suffers from.