Living on Purpose: Life Purpose Trilogy * Volume II

After Scars and Surgical Traces, a personal account of a rare diagnosis and sheer survival, this second volume of the Life Purpose Trilogy moves to a very different stage: finish lines, race bibs, icy seas, and a woman who, having survived, refuses to live on half measures. In Living on Purpose. From Learning to Cross Finish Lines to Daring to Say Enough, a radiologist's sentence - "You are alive because of your tremendous will to live" - becomes both a compass and a curse. The book is orchestrated in three parts: it begins with the first impulse after losing her sense of identity, pushes through an endless race to stay alive and finally recognize herself, and culminates in a head-on confrontation with reality when the body says "enough." With a voice that intertwines vulnerability and self-irony, Pilar retraces how sport gave her a new purpose... and how she had to learn to let it go so as not to vanish behind her own strength. It is the story of someone who turns "never give up" into something more human: knowing when to stop, finding her way back to where it all began, and giving herself the chance to make peace with death while still choosing life, day after day.

Pages: 149, Paperback, Independently published