Becky Galli’s 1960s southern upbringing was idyllic—until her brother died in a waterskiing accident at seventeen, and the slow unraveling of her perfect family began. In the years that followed, she forged onward with her life plans: marriage, career, and raising a family of her own, one she hoped could be like the one she knew before her brother’s death. But life did not go according to plan. There was her son’s illness and subsequent death; her daughter’s autism diagnosis; her separation; and then, nine days after the divorce was final, the onset of the transverse myelitis, a rare inflammation of the spinal cord that would leave Galli paralyzed from the waist down.

At once heartbreaking and inspiring, Rethinking Possible is a story about the power of love over loss and the choices we all make that shape our lives—especially when we’re forced to confront the unimaginable.

“Forthright, honest, and bold, Galli tells a story that could be so easily overwhelming or sentimental with such grace and elegance and clarity, I could not stop reading once I began. Good humor, kindness, and love shine off of every page.”
—HEATHER SELLERS, author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know

“Becky Galli lives a different life than most of us and does it with the same graciousness, strength, passion, doubts, and power we all envision having. Rethinking Possible is a quick read that delivers a powerful message for those who stop and listen.”
—CRISTINA SADOWSKY, MD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, former physician to Christopher Reeves

“Galli writes with a chip on her shoulder and laughter in her heart.”
—JACK WILLIAMS, former Associate Editor, ONE Magazine

 “Galli has a knack for striking a chord.”
—RICHARD GROSS, former Op-Ed Editor, The Baltimore Sun