Broken Beautifully

After a rare cancer diagnosis disrupted her sense of certainty, Jill Gassman Zullo began writing-not to make sense of it, but because memories that had been buried so deep-

they rose.

Wounds she thought were stitched together split open.

What followed wasn't just about illness. It was about the layered, unfinished pieces of a life shaped by chaos, trauma, faith, love, silence, and contradiction.

Through a blend of prose, poetry, and reflection, she gives shape to a story that resists order, resolution, or explanation.

This is not a story of tidy healing or easy redemption.

Broken Beautifully sits in the tension between strength and vulnerability, chaos and grace, belief and doubt. With emotional honesty and moments of sharp, unexpected humor, the author invites readers into the parts we're usually told to keep quiet -or are too afraid to say out loud. The thoughts that linger. The mess beneath the narrative. The truths that refuse to behave. The stories we never fully resolve.

For anyone who has lived through trauma, illness, or loss-and found themselves changed in ways they couldn't explain-this book offers something steady: permission to name what surfaced, to hold what shifted, and to live with what remains.