“Lady in Red: Where is Your Head?” by Carolann DeBellis is now available for purchase

“There were moments when Carol would close off.  Dazed in space or close her eyes. Just shut off.  She said it was fear.  She was  afraid  to  be  happy  because  it  meant  sadness  was  close.  She recalled her  childhood  .  .  .  “whenever  my  father  was  home  and  happy,  I  knew  there was going to be sadness because he would always leave us.”

– an excerpt from book

“It is better to have loved and lost, than never have loved at all.”

Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “Lady in Red: Where is Your Head?” by Carolann DeBellis. This masterpiece is the life-changing and insightful story of a woman as the author shares her journey of struggles and healing after the accident she has gone through. This book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.

Faith shines through wounds and injuries. What do your injuries say about your faith, if anything? Everybody has bruises. The mending that God’s love brings can heal even your deepest wounds and most difficult spots in your heart. God provides us with new life and delivers healing to our wounds when we submit, embrace, and have faith in Him.

Would there still be hope if life seemed useless? Would you continue to live after a beyond-belief accident that changed you and your life?

“Lady in Red: Where is Your Head?” by first-time author Carolann deBellis tells the story of a woman who survived a brain injury and a coma after a car accident on an icy New Jersey Turnpike in 1987, when she was 34.

Carolann had it all—the perfect life—before the accident: a great job at a hot Philadelphia salon, a passionate 12-year marriage, and a wide circle of friends and family who marveled at her energy and infectious spirit. Then, in the aftermath of the near-death accident, she lost it all—her job, husband, and sense of self.

After learning to walk, talk, and cut her hair again, she faced the lifelong task of going beyond recovery and recreating the person she was before the accident to aspire for something better. Psychological counseling and the support of a loving circle of family and friends helped her see that all was not perfect before the accident and helped her redefine a new Carolann, a work in progress, who’s less self-absorbed and more self-aware, less controlling, and more open in her relationships with men in her life.

If it weren’t for the imperative, painful job of remaking herself physically, cognitively, and emotionally from a child-like state after the accident, Carolann might never have undertaken the intensely personal journey that leads her today, at 59, to say, “I thank God for my brain injury that cured me.” 

More than a conventional memoir or self-help guide, “Lady in Red: Where is Your Head?” stitches together Carolann’s own words, a diary that her cousin Michael Biello wrote during her coma and rehabilitation, hospital documents, notes from nurses and visitors, and Carolann’s collection of inspirational quotes.

“I wrote and rewrote this book for over 20 years to help others who suffered or know someone who has suffered a brain injury,” Carolann says.

Certainly, those directly or indirectly affected by a traumatic brain injury will benefit from reading her book, but so will anyone who believes it’s never too late to re-examine yourself and get to work making yourself a better person.

“Lady in Red: Where is Your Head?” by Carolann DeBellis is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/lady-in-red-where-is-your-head.