HEALING THROUGH WONDER PROJECT

THE HEALING THROUGH WONDER PROJECT

Stories of Moments that Take Our Breath Away

Welcome to the Healing Through Wonder Project,

a storytelling collaboration between Val Walker, author and rehabilitation

consultant, and Robyn Houston-Bean, founder of The Sun Will Rise Foundation.

Together, we explore powerful stories of healing sparked by moments of awe

and wonder. Through intimate conversations with our guests, we uncover

how these extraordinary experiences have shaped their journeys through

trauma, substance use, and grief, and how wonder can open a path to resilience

and transformation.

Watch for the release of Healing Through Wonder, Val Walker’s book blending memoir,

profiles of recovery, and heartening neuroscience research on the ways awe and

wonder experiences help our brains and bodies heal.

Healing Through Wonder: How Awe Restores Us After Trauma and Loss,

will be released January 8, 2026 with Bloomsbury Publishing.

www.HealingThroughWonder.com

Photo: Carrington Crothers

Val Walker, MS, Blogger for Psychology Today, Rehabilitation Consultant, Author, The Art of Comforting, and 400 Friends and No One to Call 

  ValWalkerAuthor.com

Robyn Houston-Bean is the founder of the grief-focused nonprofit,

The Sun Will Rise Foundation, and a peer grief support consultant for SADOD

(Support After a Death by Overdose)

TheSunWillRise.org

Join Robyn and Val on their YouTube channel, Healing Through Wonder,

as they co-host guests for their storytelling project about life-changing experiences through awe and wonder.

Healing Through Wonder – YouTube  Watch

Learn more about the storytelling project on the Healing Through Wonder website.

OTHER COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

Val also contributes to the Health Story Collaborative blog,

chiming in with their mission of “harnessing the healing power of stories.”

She joins with founder, Annie Brewster, MD, to explore how we can preserve the role of conversation and storytelling in a

healthcare setting.

Annie Brewster, MD, the Founder of the Health Story Collaborative

Annie Brewster is an Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing Internist

at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. She is the author of The Healing Power of Storytelling.

She is also a patient, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001.

Blogging for the Health Story Collaborative in collaboration with Dr. Brewster, Val talks with innovative

experts who weigh in on how to have meaningful conversations in the hurried culture

of our digital age. She profiles authors, clinicians, educators and community leaders to inspire our

confidence as communicators and advocates, reclaiming the power of person-to-person interaction in

healing ourselves and our communities. Read her interviews here.

Read more about The Health Story Collaborative here.