Apr

19 2015

Women's Day Brunch

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

Kapok Special Events Center 923 N McMullen Booth Rd
Clearwater, FL 33759
(727) 725-8733

Contact Alissa Fischel
813-769-4726
alissa.fischel@jewishtampa.com

Women's Philanthropy of the Tampa JCC & Federation invites you to a Women’s Day Brunch

featuring psychotherapist and author Rebecca Alexander Sunday, April 19, 2015, 10:30 AM

Kapok Special Events Center 923 N. McMullen Booth Road Clearwater, Florida

 

Open to all women from the Tampa Bay area $18 per person, $54 per patron. (Patrons will receive special recognition at the event.)

Online ticket sales are closed. Tickets will be available at the door.

More about Rebecca Alexander:

Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered.

None of us know what we would do in the face of such devastation. What Rebecca did was rise to every challenge she faced. She was losing her vision and hearing and her body was broken, but she refused to lose her drive, her zest for life and – maybe most importantly – her sense of humor. Now, at 35, with only a sliver of sight and significantly deteriorated hearing, she is a psychotherapist with two masters’ degrees from Columbia University, and an athlete who teaches spin classes and regularly competes in extreme endurance races. She greets every day as if it were a gift, with boundless energy, innate curiosity, and a strength of spirit that have led her to places we can't imagine.

In Not Fade Away, Rebecca tells her extraordinary story, by turns harrowing, funny and inspiring. She meditates on what she’s lost—from the sound of a whisper to seeing a sky full of stars, and what she’s found in return—an exquisite sense of intimacy with those she is closest to, a love of silence, a profound gratitude for everything she still has, and a joy in simple pleasures that most of us forget to notice.

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