“As a grief and trauma therapist, I’ve read enough books on healing to know when one is doing something different. And, Becoming Unbreakable: A Big Sister’s Guide to Trauma, is doing something different. Dana Killion is not a researcher who studied trauma from a safe distance. She walked through it, lost a son, buried her parents, untangled herself from a marriage built on lies, and came out the other side with a framework that helped her to rise back up. Every chapter moves. Every tool is tangible. This is a step-by-step guide with teeth; a concrete, actionable path through, built from the inside out. This book is for people who are done circling the drain, and ready to build something new out of what remains.”

—GINA MOFFA, LCSW, grief and trauma therapist, and author of Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

“Nobody warns us that healing from trauma can be its own kind of hard. That some days, facing what happened feels worse than pretending it didn’t. But Dana knows. She’s been there—not as an expert with a clipboard, but as someone who had to figure out, one painful step at a time, how to stop being defined by what broke her. Becoming Unbreakable is the big-sister guide she wished she’d had (and honestly, we wish we’d had). Direct, practical, and written from the inside out of trauma, it meets you exactly where you are—and walks with you toward someone stronger than you’ve ever been.”

—JOY FARROW AND LAURA FROMBACH, Street Smart Safety for Women

“Healing is best done with wise, encouraging voices that support us as we boldly venture on our paths. Dana Killion offers such a voice in Becoming Unbreakable. With excellent writing and openness, Dana shares her hard-earned wisdom so, as she says, you have ‘a big sister’ as you heal and become unbreakable!”

—ADAM DORSAY, PsyD, psychologist and author of Super Psyched

“Everyone carries something. What makes Becoming Unbreakable powerful is that it doesn’t stay at the surface. Dana Killion goes deeper, challenging you to understand why things happen and to do the consistent work required to truly move forward. This is the kind of work that changes how you show up in your life and helps you break through the patterns that have been holding you back.”

—ERICA ANDERSON ROONEY, founder of HER Collective, executive coach, and author of Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors and The AI Gap

“In Becoming Unbreakable, Dana Killion transforms profound, unspeakable personal loss into a road map for resilience. With raw honesty and insight that only comes from lived experience, she guides readers toward a place where pain no longer defines them, but strengthens them. Her written voice feels like a steady arm around your shoulder, reminding us that while pain is inevitable in life, staying broken is not. An emotionally stirring, hopeful, and empowering read for anyone doing the hard work of healing.”

—DR. KIMBERLY HORN, research psychologist and author of Friends Matter, for Life