The Fire of Love: a memoir with author Eli Jaxon-Bear

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Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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290 East Main St, Ashland, OR, United States, Oregon 97520 | Ashland, OR

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In this intimate memoir, spiritual teacher Eli Jaxon-Bear traces his journey from the toxic winds of Ground Zero to a cancer diagnosis that would transform his understanding of surrender and freedom. Through an affair that shattered his marriage, the painful path to reconciliation, and the crucible of illness, he discovers that our deepest wounds contain our greatest wisdom.
When a seemingly perfect thirty-year relationship unraveled, Jaxon-Bear was forced to confront the subconscious layers beneath surface harmony. “We tell ourselves comments and stories about the other that we would never speak aloud,” he writes, revealing how relationships operate at multiple levels simultaneously. This hard-won insight arrived just before doctors told him a “ten-alarm fire” raged in his bones-a physical manifestation of emotional truth demanding to be faced.
With unflinching honesty, Jaxon-Bear reveals how both relational crisis and cancer became two of his greatest teachers. His three-year death sentence transformed into an eighteen-year testament to the resilience of love and the mysterious ways of grace. His journey reminds us that transformation rarely arrives as we imagine it should-sometimes it comes as a toxic wind, but always as an invitation to discover what in us is truly indestructible, and how hearts blown open can find their way back to each other, stronger at the broken places.
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