EIGHT FINGERS AND EIGHT TOES Accepting Life's Challenges A story of a mother's love and
her journey to self-discovery
through overcoming challenges

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Do You Feel Alone and Discouraged by Your Challenges?

I felt this way too. Realizing other people also feel this way, inspired me to write my story, Eight Fingers and Eight Toes: Accepting Life’s Challenges, which includes lessons I learned while accepting and overcoming the challenges of raising two children born with multiple disabilities, abandonment, poverty, depression, and bulimia.

Walk with me on a path that focuses on finding strengths, using natural talents, and believing you can overcome challenges. Gain new perspectives, insights, and lessons as you feel less alone and find the renewed courage to face your challenges with more compassion and empathy for yourself.

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About Eight Fingers and Eight Toes: Accepting Life’s Challenges

Like most expectant mothers, Debbie Jorde was expecting her first perfect baby. She already had what she perceived to be the perfect marriage, as well as what she thought was the perfect life. The delivery date came and her perfect baby wasn’t so physically perfect, in fact, she was severely disabled. She wasn’t expected to live and the doctors had few answers.

After her second child was born, with the same disabilities, what Debbie thought was a perfect marriage dissolved. She became a single mother dependent on public aid to help care for her children. The illusion of her perceived perfect life reduced to that of a divorced, single mom raising children with lung disease, autism and a rare disabling disorder called Miller syndrome that affects only 30 other people worldwide.

Debbie found herself forced on an odyssey of self-examination through issues such as divorce, single motherhood, eating disorders, addiction, self-worth, and the definition of beauty. The challenges faced in the process led Debbie to redefine her definition of happiness, success, and perfection. The lessons learned and insights gained transformed her life into one that is full of acceptance, courage, joy, and love.

Eight Fingers and Eight Toes: Accepting Life’s Challenges is a story of the power of a mother’s love for her children and her journey of self-love. It is a story of struggles and learning to accept and overcome challenges. One takes a front row seat as the author learns answers to questions asked decades ago that result in part from the family being the first ever to have their entire genome sequenced.

This book is a reminder that in spite of the trials that cause us to think life isn’t so perfect, with a little courage and a lot of love, all can learn to accept and overcome challenges. The result being a more fulfilling life of happiness and joy.

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Insights You Can Apply to Your Own Life!

Strengthen Compassion

Feeling more compassion and empathy brings acceptance of yourself and others which strengthens relationships. It also bridges the gap between the abled and the disabled by creating more understanding, better care, and love.

Learn to Accept Challenges

By accepting challenges you lesson resistance and reduce suffering. This makes it easier to see solutions and feel optimistic. Acceptance also validates your challenges. Feeling relief, you are inspired to take action to overcome your challenges.

Learn to Overcome Challenges

Overcoming your challenges creates courage, self-confidence, satisfaction, and inner strength. You also gain wisdom and fulfillment. In addition, you build character. All these benefits make your future challenges easier to accept and overcome.

Gain New Perspectives

When you experience someone else’s life, you see a different reality. You learn to understand other people better and see beyond appearances. This enriches your life and brings you a fuller appreciation for everyone and everything around you.

Feel Less Alone

Learning about other people's challenges, helps you feel less alone and more connected to others. This reduces suffering. It's also easier to see beyond your own challenges and gain confidence to accept and overcome them and to take action.

Live a Conscious Life

By living a conscious life, you are more present in each moment. This helps you think through and make deliberate choices as you are creating the solutions you want. Conscious thoughts and choices shape the future you desire and create more happiness.

Feel Gratitude 

Seeing the challenges other people face helps you feel gratitude for what you have. This helps you feel more happiness which improves physical, mental, and emotional health. Your self-esteem grows and you feel more balanced in your life.

Be A Better Advocate

An advocate is someone who is conscious of what they need, both for themselves or someone else.  They communicate their needs effectively and ask for what they want. This helps them meet emotional, physical, and spiritual needs.

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Testimonials

I cannot find the words to tell you all how much you have inspired me. Your stories remind me of so many details in my life, and although I do not have any physical limitations, I do have emotional problems that I am still sorting out. How I wish I could explain to you all what your book has done for me. I cannot even find the words. All of you are beautiful and exceptional people. To hear what you have all been through as a family, and even on a day-to-day basis is extraordinary! I just want you all to know, that you have fulfilled the purpose of your book and you have ALL changed my life forever. Thank you for writing what I needed to hear- what the world needs to hear.

Ashley D, Homemaker

This book is a must for anyone that has or interacts with, disabled children. Thank you, Debbie, for your honesty and bravery for writing such a touching life story.

Maria C.

This story changed my life. I learned the power of accepting life’s challenges, focusing on what is good and what I have the power to do.

Shelli L. Life Coach

Through Debbie’s strength and compassion, she gave her children the confidence to do and learn things on their own so they would be capable of living independently. Life is not always what we expect it will be but we do have the ability to deal with the difficulties it presents and Debbie Jorde proves that every single day.

Annie C.

The strength, optimism and self-awareness that Debbie and her children possess in the face of such difficult obstacles is truly uplifting. The author has told their story with courage and honesty.

Maren W, Research Associate

These three soldiers demonstrate to me what is possible in love in life. Absolutely beautiful.

Laureen

Debbie Jorde’s book is filled with so many beautiful honest insights. Not only will you receive authenticity and struggle and hope as you make the time to closely examine the book, you will also fall in love with the author who has a heart of gold. This passage is just a glimpse of her profound strong and capable spirit: “When I am in nature, I feel I am in the arms of my higher power. I couldn’t have been in a better place to endure such a difficult emotional experience.

Michelle Skaletski-Boyd, Intuitive

For anyone wishing to expand their horizons while dealing with even the slightest disability, this book is the opening door as it expresses not only both sides of this incredible journey, but the depth of courage taken by a determined mother of such children who astoundingly achieve much beyond society’s expectations of disability. For students of Physical Therapy, Psychology, and even Sports Medicine, this book is a great tool to open that door to understand those clients and patients as just people like the status quo who are trying so hard to achieve their personal miraculous goals.

Ardva K.

This is a must read book for parents who have children with special needs.

S. Gonzalez

I finished the book and am almost done with a second read. There is so much to glean—I find myself re-reading paragraphs about relinquishing control, and accepting rather than resisting, and putting effort in understanding other people’s perceptions!

Dr.Alice Schmid, Neurodegeneration Researcher

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