The Angels' Healing Garden
Mother offers comfort to frightened and sleepless little ones
Making bedtime less painful and scary for sick children
Mother offers comfort to frightened and sleepless little ones
2011-05-26
Swain explains that when she was a child, and throughout her life, she has had experiences with long-term illnesses and insomnia. Later in life, she had an extensive bout with cancer and extreme insomnia caused by a bad reaction to anesthesia. Swain has developed heart-felt compassion for other people, especially children, going through similar problems. The Angels' Healing Garden was inspired by these experiences and being a mom to three children: two of whom inherited her sleeping problems and one of these with the same childhood illnesses. The original story idea, Swain communicates, came from a friend when the author was at her most sick, scared, hurt and sleepless. The friend gave her something lovely and uplifting to think about to help her go to sleep. The Angels' Healing Garden fills a need in comforting and lifting up children going through extraordinary challenges, medical or otherwise, including trouble sleeping.
Swain holds a degree in art history, further training in studio art and has worked painting off and on, both before and after marrying her husband and becoming a stay-at-home mom. Swain describes that combining her painting and her personal and motherly health challenges with her spiritual life has compelled her to write and illustrate this comforting children's bedtime story. Swain hopes that The Angels' Healing Garden will help many kids who are going through tough times.
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. The Angels' Healing Garden is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.