After a rare cancer diagnosis shatters her sense of certainty, Jill Gassman Zullo is forced to confront not only the fragility of the body, but the unexamined truths of a life shaped by trauma, faith, love, and contradiction. Through a blend of prose, poetry, and reflection, she traces a journey of survival-from violence and silence to reckoning and awakening.

This is not a story of tidy healing or easy redemption. Instead, Broken Beautifully sits honestly in the tension between strength and vulnerability, chaos and grace, belief and doubt. With unflinching honesty and moments of unexpected humor, Zullo invites readers into the sacred mess of being human.

For anyone who has lived through trauma, illness, or loss-and wondered how to carry what cannot be fixed-this book offers permission: to feel, to speak, and to remain unfinished.

We are all, in our own way, broken beautifully.