The Divine Waiting Game is a true story about a series of extraordinary events that occur, when a 34-year old woman named Rachael chooses to leave her personal life behind to become a full-time caregiver for her divorced parents. The book begins in Maui at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, but the story goes back and forth in time to reveal many of Rachael's life adventures and 'coincidences'- leading up to how she went from being a caregiver to becoming a successful and internationally recognized artist.
After losing her stepmother, Kathy, in a tragic car accident in 2007, then later loosing her only brother, Eric, in a trucking accident in 2012, Rachael began to journal daily in an attempt to ease the grief in her heart. In her devastation, she left her remarkable life in Maui behind to return to her hometown in Nevada to be closer to her parents. At the time, Rachael's father, to whom she was very close, was diagnosed with stage-four metastatic thyroid cancer. Shortly after her father's diagnosis, her mom was diagnosed with, early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
To try to heal from their multiple tragedies, Rachael and her father begin to build their own fine-art business together while simultaneously becoming full-time caregivers for Rachael's mother.
Eventually, Rachael and her two parents move back to Maui together, and the art business begins to thrive as Rachael continues to negotiate her parent's diseases with love, humor, and resilience - until life once again changed the direction of their chosen path.
The Divine Waiting Game is a profound journey of how one young woman transforms her grief and trauma into a series artwork that resonates on a personal and spiritual level with both men and women battling similar traumas. This memoir not only provides inspiration and hope but also a voice for those struggling with caring for a loved one and the aftermath of that experience. It's also meant to encourage those who desire to create something extraordinary and empowering out of an exceptionally challenging situation.
"My hope is that the reader - whether they are a caregiver, a survivor, or an aspiring artist - will benefit from taking this journey with me by providing them a safe space to relate to their own traumatic experiences and to help bring forth their own healing story to inspire others." - Rachael D. Holton
