Product By: CarrieDee
Category: Health & Nutrition | Spiritual Wellness | TransformationFueling Strength: A Family’s Journey Through Healing, Faith & Food
October hits different this year.
When my mother, Carolyn Sue Pickard, rang the bell at the hospital on March 4th, 2025, we all thought that sound meant victory. It was the day every cancer patient dreams of — the day the treatments end, the day you get to breathe again. But sometimes, ringing the bell doesn’t mean the fight is over. It just means you survived that round.
Months later, the scans showed the cancer had started growing again.
The appointments began piling up. The miles between hospitals and home stretched longer. The bills stacked higher. But so did the prayers.
This eBook — Fueling Strength — was born from that moment.
It’s not just a fundraiser. It’s a movement of healing, hope, and faith woven through food and family.
What’s Inside
8 chapters that blend story and sustenance:
4 family recipes crafted from our kitchen to help Mom regain strength — including a Pre-Radiation Shake, a Strength Tea, a Post-Radiation Smoothie, and a Morning Healing Water infused with banana peel, cloves, cinnamon, and bay leaf.
5 high-protein healing meals from my niece Anna’s cookbook, When Good Carbs Are Bad, created long before we knew how vital they’d become.
Reflections and short prayers written during hospital days, car rides, and kitchen moments when we were just trying to keep love alive.
Each recipe is paired with part of our family’s real story — the laughter, the miles, the tears, the grace. It’s faith on paper and strength in a cup.
Why This Book Exists
When the doctors said Mom needed to increase her protein and calories to survive treatment, we realized God had already prepared the way.
Anna had been developing high-protein recipes for her own health journey — and suddenly, those same recipes became medicine for her grandmother.
So we teamed up.
Three generations of women — a mother, a daughter, and a granddaughter — turning pain into purpose, faith into fuel, and food into healing.
Every dollar from this eBook goes directly toward my mother’s ongoing care — her nutrition, travel, and treatment costs as she continues to fight Stage 4 lung adenocarcinoma.
How You Help
When you purchase Fueling Strength, you aren’t just buying a book — you’re joining our circle of Helping Hands.100% of proceeds support Carolyn Sue Pickard’s care and recovery.
Inside, you’ll find a link to Anna’s full cookbook, where every sale through that link also donates 100% to Mom’s treatment fund.
You’ll also find a link to our GoFundMe for anyone who wishes to give beyond the $3.33 price of this book.
Your purchase helps with travel for treatments (nearly 90 miles each way), protein supplements, and meal prep for a woman who has spent her whole life caring for others.
Faith, Family, and Divine Alignment
Our family has learned that healing isn’t always about medicine alone — sometimes it’s about meaning. It’s about showing up, staying grateful, and letting love carry you when your own strength fades.
Whether you’re a caregiver, a survivor, or someone walking through your own storm, this book will remind you that healing is possible — not just in the body, but in the spirit.
One story can change a family.
One family can inspire a community.
And together, we can turn healing into hope.
“I wrote this for the ones who are tired, the ones who keep showing up, and the ones still believing God can turn even this into good. Every recipe, every prayer, every page is a thank-you — for grace that never runs out.”
— CarrieDee, Helping Hands & Mountain Echoes Inc.
