Rising UP! chronicles Anna York′s physical, social and spiritual transformation as she makes a remarkable journey:* From a white, Protestant, rural community to multi-cultural Chicago * From serious disability caused by multiple sclerosis to health and wholeness* From suspicion of eastern healing arts as “strange” and “dangerous” to healing with the help of a Tai Chi master and Traditional Chinese Medicine * From anti-feminist roots to ordination as a handicapped female in a Southern Baptist church* From being regarded as a “saint″ to being rejected by friends because of her “un-Christian” mode of healing * From beef and potatoes to a vegetarian diet* From being uninsurable for over two decades to being approved for a $100,000 life insurance policy* From confusion about what has happened to insight and joyMultiple sclerosis, a disease Anna has had for over forty years, crippled her, caused her excruciating pain, put her in a wheelchair and an electric scooter, and wreaked havoc on all
