The catastrophic crash

Our journey from the brink of the abyss

Louise Holm

When perseverance and trust show the way

Hardcover; 272 pages

Her daughter managed to return to life after a car accident in which she suffered serious brain damage. Louise Holm tells the story of the tough but miraculous road back in the book "The Catastrophic Crash".

The book is written for those who want to gain inspiration and vitality. It shows that nothing is impossible, it is our own attitude that helps or hinders us. The book can also be used as support and guidance for anyone who finds themselves in difficult situations.

The book gives concrete descriptions of a spiritual force, a force beyond our own comprehension. The Catastrophic Crash is about the long and tough journey after a traffic accident, where the author's daughter was seriously brain damaged and initially diagnosed by doctors, who gave a pessimistic prognosis. After a few months, the daughter came to a rehabilitation department, which entailed a prolonged fight for survival and recovery, against disability and incompetence.

Louise Holm has worked in various management positions and leadership assignments within competence development, business and product development, and complex group-wide projects. With a life attitude that everything can be solved if we focus on our goal instead of on obstacles and problems, she wants to show and truly prove with this book that our own attitude makes a difference.

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"I've now read your book! I started it on Monday and finished it late last night."

It's amazing how good you are at writing!!!

You really have a gift. And you really manage to capture the reader so that you almost don't want to put the book down because you constantly want to see how it will go. Your language is simple but I like that. Just enough descriptions. (I've read the trilogy about The Lord of the Rings and there could be a bit too many descriptions of things and surroundings there. Nice and good, but a bit annoying when it gets too much I personally think.) So with that you have really succeeded well.

I think the book can be a comfort and encouragement to others who find themselves in similar situations. What I thought when I finished reading it was that it wouldn't have been completely wrong with another book about Sandra and her fight back to life. Maybe when 5 years have passed it would have been interesting and encouraging to read about how it has gone and what her life looks like then. (Hope for the 99% recovery then.) I think many would have been very interested in a part 2. Something to think about maybe? Was just a thought from my side...

What a tumultuous year 2014 was for both you and Sandra. What strength it must have taken to get through all the uncertainty, fear that she wouldn't make it, etc. as it must have been. The worst thing you can experience is something happening to your child.

Sandra must have an enormous fighting spirit within her and has a large portion of positivity in her personality. A very talented girl who seems to have worked very hard to regain the right to her life she had before the accident. Best wishes to her. I really admire her fighting spirit! Without it, she might not have come as far as she actually has. She is incredibly talented! (Many others in similar situations might have instead sunk into depression. Unfortunately, I probably would have.)

Thank you for letting me buy your book! It has been an honor and a dizzying and moving feeling to read it!

Keep writing! Looking forward to the next creation! Maybe there could be a part 2? It would have been really interesting to read the continuation.”

"I have now read your book. Couldn't stop reading. So fantastic and wonderful. What a journey you have been on. When I read I am sometimes sad, happy, pissed off, angry, despairing, full of laughter at your Daughter's hellish embrace and stubbornness."

“What a fantastic book you have written... I have read it from cover to cover. Couldn't put it down.”

“Fantastic book!”

"Read the book thoroughly. Absolutely fantastic. Imagine if all healthcare professionals had the same training."

"I'm reading the book right now and can hardly put it down, incredibly good. Lots of emotion in it."

"Coughing, snotty and generally hungover and really tired and frozen. Laid on the couch and slept most of the day. When I've been awake I read a book called The Catastrophic Crash. Written by Louise Holm. It's a book that I can highly recommend. It's about Sandra who crashes and gets severe brain damage. It's about Sandra's long road back."

“It is truly a magical book you have written; it is reader-friendly, captivating, moving, interesting and educational – and the work you have done is absolutely outstanding and really incredible. Not to mention Sandra and the others in your family.”