Erica's Books
Click on the images below to learn about my four book projects. The first three memoirs, currently published, are part of a trilogy. The last book is a work-in-progress. I'll be sure to update this page as soon as they're published.
Memoir Trilogy
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert
In 1971, a young schoolteacher arrives on the Navajo reservation knowing nothing about her students or their world. After a discouraging first week, she nearly leaves in despair, unable to communicate or understand the cultural cues around her. But once she learns the language, the people begin to trust her, welcoming her into their homes and their hearts. She survives a mountain lion encounter, witnesses healing ceremonies, and learns to herd sheep and weave, living the life of a traditional Navajo woman. Years later, fulfilling a grandmother's prophecy, she returns to serve the same people as a doctor.
From Mountains to Medicine
A courageous woman with insatiable curiosity shares her story with disarming honesty, threading her way through the turbulent early years of her life and overcoming challenges that would stop most people in their tracks. Her guiding star is a search for meaning that carries her through the Peace Corps and perilous climbs in the Andes, including one peak later named after her. Laughing, breathless, and wide-eyed by turns, readers follow her spellbinding odyssey until her wise heart finally leads her home, to discover what was there all along: her destiny to be a healer.
From Doctor to Healer
A mountain lion spared her life at 23. Decades later, Dr. Erica Elliott would come to understand that encounter as the beginning of a journey that carried her far beyond conventional medicine. Trained in Western medicine, she began noticing that her patients' chronic conditions weren't being resolved by conventional care, that something essential was being missed. With the mind of a scientist and the intuition of a seasoned healer, she becomes a medical detective, taking readers behind the curtain of modern healthcare and into the intimate stories of patients who were dismissed, misdiagnosed, or failed by the system, and into her own hardest years.
COMING SOON!!!
