How Miracles Do Happen by Eileen Connors Is A Memoir That Reflects On Hope, Healing, And Humanity

Miracles Do Happen by Eileen Connors cuts through the noise of self-help mantras and curated success stories with something more potent and more authentic: truth. This memoir recounts a life that began with near-impossible odds and evolved into a powerful narrative of courage, resilience, and undeniable triumph.

If you’re looking for a story that will move you, inspire you, and perhaps shift how you view both adversity and possibility, this book belongs on your shelf and in your heart.

An Extraordinary Beginning

Born in 1958 in British Columbia, Eileen was diagnosed with Trigonocephaly, a rare cranial birth defect, compounded by an even more unusual complication, quadriplegia at birth. Doctors offered grim prognoses, suggesting she wouldn’t survive beyond two years. Her skull was misshapen, her limbs immobile, her breathing impaired, and her early photos and medical reports are shared in the memoir with honesty and detail that will stop you in your tracks.

But where science saw a hopeless case, Eileen family saw a child worth fighting for. And fight they did.

Healing Through the Unconventional

With mainstream medicine offering no safe solutions, Eileen’s family found hope in an unlikely place: a non-surgical cranial therapy pioneered by Dr. Earl Farnsworth, who used a highly specialized, delicate technique involving nasal passage adjustment to encourage the skull to expand and shift naturally.

The treatments were intense, often painful, and required years of travel, time, and emotional endurance. And yet, slowly and incredibly, Eileen began to change. She learned to move. She learned to breathe. She learned to live.

This isn’t a miracle in the abstract. It’s a miracle backed by grit, science, and relentless hope.

A Story That Grows With Her

What sets the book apart from typical health memoirs is that it doesn’t end with the recovery. It chronicles the author’s full journey. It takes you from the harrowing early years through schooling, setbacks, surgeries, friendships, family tragedies, career milestones, and eventually, finding love and building a life of her own.

We follow her through challenges at school, where she was labeled “slow” or “unfit” for academic paths, only to prove everyone wrong by graduating high school and even passing trigonometry without having taken algebra or geometry. We witness her battle societal limitations and physical pain to pursue an education in business and secretarial work, eventually earning a 40-year career at BC Tel (now Telus).

This is not just a survival story. It’s an evolution story.

A Family‘s Devotion, A Life‘s Worth

At the heart of this memoir is a deep and enduring tribute to her mother and grandmother. They never gave up on her, even when it meant moving to multiple cities and dealing with skeptics. And enduring the emotional weight of watching their child suffer through long treatments.

It’s also a touching account of community support, like the Elks Lodge stepping in to financially assist with treatment travel, and the intimate moments with doctors who came to believe they were witnessing something truly rare and remarkable.

Through these relationships, Miracles Do Happen becomes not just the story of a girl and her condition, but a celebration of collective humanity. The people who hold you up when the world would rather look away.

Writing That Feels Personal and Powerful

Eileen writing style is direct, unflinching, and deeply personal. You feel the pain in her early treatments. You laugh with her as she recounts moments of mischief and joy. You feel the quiet pride of someone who not only outlived expectations but rewrote them.

The memoir also touches on the emotional toll of being visibly “different,” how people stared or misunderstood, and how Eileen used humor, empathy, and resilience to transcend those moments. Her narration is humble but sharp, emotional yet unsentimental, a perfect balance for a memoir of this magnitude.

In an era where so much of what we see online is filtered, perfected, and made to inspire without vulnerability, the book reminds us of the raw beauty of the human condition. It’s about perseverance, not for praise, but for purpose.

For anyone who has been told they couldn’t, who has ever faced a challenge no one understood, or who has simply needed to know that miracles don’t always look like magic. They look like work, faith, and heart. This book is your companion.

A Book That Lives Up to Its Title

What truly sets it apart is how it gracefully balances the scientific and the spiritual. While much of the medical world had no roadmap for Eileen’s condition, her healing journey didn’t reject science. It embraced innovation and complemented it with deep trust in human intuition, perseverance, and love. Readers are invited to consider how alternative therapies can work hand-in-hand with traditional medicine, and how sometimes the most groundbreaking discoveries begin with compassion and curiosity, not just a clinical diagnosis.

Moreover, the book is nothing less than an inspiring story, not just of Eileen’s remarkable survival, but of the community of people who stood beside her: her mother, her grandmother, her dedicated doctors, and eventually, her husband and friends. In sharing her life’s triumphs and struggles, the author gives readers more than a memoir. She gives them a guidebook for empathy, persistence, and belief in the extraordinary strength within us all.

Who Should Read This Memoir?

• Medical professionals and caregivers who want to better understand thehuman side of rare conditions.

• Readers of memoirs like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Brain on Fire, or Educated.

• Parents, educators, and advocates who are seeking hope and guidance in the face of developmental diagnoses.

• Anyone who values stories of resilience, faith, and healing.

Takeaway

The miracle in Miracles Do Happen isn’t just that Eileen Connors lived. It’s that she chose to share her story, not with bitterness or pity, but with compassion, gratitude, and a fierce joy that’s contagious. Her journey reminds us that we are not the sum of our diagnoses or setbacks. We are the stories we choose to write beyond them. Pick up your copy of Miracles Do Happen by Eileen Connors today and witness what happens when determination meets destiny.