Books
One Percent
n One Percent: A Memoir of Borrowed Time, Rev. Dr. Alicia Alexis reflects on the fragile threshold between life and death after a life-altering cardiac event. What began as an ordinary day became a moment that rearranged her understanding of time, body, faith, and gratitude.
Through a series of reflective vignettes, Alexis explores survival, vulnerability, and the quiet spiritual awakening that follows crisis. With the voice of a pastor, spiritual director, and survivor, she invites readers into the sacred territory of recovery — where the body remembers, the spirit recalibrates, and each new morning feels entrusted rather than assumed.
Part memoir, part spiritual reflection, One Percent is a gentle but powerful meditation on mortality, grace, and the courage to live awake.
Perfect for readers navigating illness, recovery, or spiritual renewal.
Healing for Brokenness
What does it mean to be healed?
Is healing simply the absence of illness—or is it something deeper?
In Healing for Brokenness, Rev. Dr. Alicia Alexis offers a compassionate and powerful exploration of how God meets us in our most vulnerable places and leads us toward wholeness.
Drawing from her experience as an Episcopal priest, life coach, spiritual director, massage therapist, and healthcare professional, Alexis weaves together personal story, biblical insight, and real-life ministry to present a holistic vision of healing—one that embraces the body, mind, and spirit.
This book explores:
the many dimensions of brokenness
the difference between cure and true healing
the role of community in the healing process
the Church's calling to be a place of restoration and hope
At once deeply personal and profoundly practical, Healing for Brokenness invites readers into a journey of transformation–one that acknowledges life's struggles while holding onto the promise that healing is still possible.
What happens after survival?
In After the One Percent: How to Live the Life You Were Given Back, Rev. Dr. Alicia Alexis invites readers into the quiet, deeply human journey that follows a life-altering medical crisis. If One Percent: A Memoir of Borrowed Time told the story of survival, this book explores what comes next: awakening, healing, fear, gratitude, and learning how to truly live again.
Through reflective storytelling, spiritual insight, and honest vulnerability, Alicia Alexis shares what it means to wake up inside a life you almost lost. With themes of presence, awareness, faith, healing, and transformation, this book speaks to anyone who has experienced interruption, loss, illness, trauma, grief, or a profound turning point in life.
Each chapter includes thoughtful reflection questions and prayers designed to help readers slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with the sacredness of ordinary life.
After the One Percent
Healing for Brokenness
What does healing actually look like—day by day, step by step?
In Healing for Brokenness: Walking the Path to Wholeness, Rev. Dr. Alicia Alexis moves beyond the question of what healing is and gently guides readers into the lived reality of how healing unfolds.
Drawing from her work as a priest, spiritual director, and healthcare professional—as well as her own personal journey—Dr. Alexis offers a compassionate and practical roadmap for those seeking restoration in body, mind, and spirit.
With warmth, wisdom, and pastoral depth, Healing for Brokenness: Walking the Path to Wholeness reminds us that healing is not about returning to who we were before—it is about becoming who we are now called to be.
Living Awake: A Leader’s Guide
This Leader's Guide is designed to accompany One Percent: A Memoir of Borrowed Time and the Living Awake Retreat Guide, offering a simple, pastoral framework for leading small groups, retreats, or personal reflection gatherings. With gentle structure and clear guidance, each session invites participants to:
Reflect on the fragility and gift of life
Notice what matters most
Take one small step toward living more intentionally
Written for clergy, spiritual leaders, and facilitators, this guide emphasizes presence over performance, listening over fixing, and grace over perfection.
Whether used in a parish setting, retreat environment, or small group, this guide helps create space for honest conversation, quiet transformation, and faithful living.
A retreat guide for Living Awake is a companion Guide to ONE PERCENT: A Memoir of Borrowed Time. A retreat guide gently enough for those who have journeyed through grief . . . yet structured enough to guide individuals, groups, and retreat leaders into transformation.
Living Awake is a retreat guide for those seeking space and structure for living gently within the moments they have been time:
For personal reflection or journaling.
For leading retreats and group spiritual experiences.
For small groups or church settings.
Dr. Alicia Alexis is a pastor, psychiatric adult clinical nurse specialist, spiritual director, and life coach who accompanies individuals on journeys of faith, spiritual direction, and contemplative practice.
Living Awake: A Retreat Guide
When Dreams Fall Silent
What happens when the inner voice grows quiet?
After surviving a life-threatening medical crisis, Alicia Alexis—a pastor, spiritual director, and dream worker—faced an unexpected reality: her dreams stopped.
In a culture that urges us to seek answers, clarity, and constant growth, When Dreams Fall Silent offers a different path—one rooted in trust, presence, and the wisdom of the body.
This deeply reflective and accessible book explores:
Why trauma can quiet the inner life
How the body holds both memory and healing
What it means to live without immediate answers
How to remain spiritually awake—even in silence
Blending personal story, spiritual insight, and practical guidance, Alicia invites readers into a gentler way of healing—one that honors timing, respects the nervous system, and trusts that silence is not emptiness, but care.
Perfect for readers of trauma recovery, spiritual growth, and contemplative practice.
if you are in a season where something feels quiet, distant, or uncertain—this book will meet you there.