A Wild Ride: RECLAIMING MY EDGE AFTER CANCER

She spent a lifetime outrunning the wreckage—until cancer stopped her cold. What followed wasn’t just healing. It was a reckoning.

For fans of Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Untamed by Glennon Doyle, this is more than a story—it’s a lifeline. A lighthouse. A soft place to land for anyone learning to build peace from the rubble.

From the windswept hills of Texas to a butterfly farm in Kauai, A Wild Ride is a powerful and lyrical memoir of survival, surrender, and transformation. Rachel DeSpain spent years chasing success, adventure, and escape—until a breast cancer diagnosis forced her to stop running. In the wake of illness and loss, she found herself unraveling the life she’d so carefully built. What emerged wasn’t a return to her old self, but a rewilding into the woman she was always meant to be.

Told with unflinching honesty, poetic insight, and a fierce undercurrent of hope, A Wild Ride explores motherhood, trauma, grief, resilience, and the radical act of starting over.

From breakdowns to breakthroughs, this is a story about coming home—to your body, your truth, and the life waiting on the other side of survival.

A #1 bestseller in Psychology & Medicine and a #1 New Release in Breast Cancer, A Wild Ride is a memoir that meets you where you are—and walks with you toward something wilder, softer, and truer.

If you’ve ever felt broken, burned out, or like you were meant for something more—this book is for you.