AFTER SURVIVAL™
A memoir about surviving the unimaginable... and discovering that what comes after survival matters even more.
At ten years old, Shane Neilsen survived a catastrophic brain injury that doctors believed he could not survive. But survival was only the beginning.
AFTER SURVIVAL™ is the story of what happened in the decades that followed. It's a story of faith, family, forgiveness, accountability, and the quiet decisions that ultimately shape every life.
More than a memoir, it's an invitation to consider what comes after the hardest moments we face, and how those choices become our legacy.
Available in Premium Dust-Jacket Hardcover, Casewrap Hardcover, Trade Paperback, and eBook editions. Optional personally signed editions are available directly from Neilsen Storyworks.
More Than a Story of Survival
AFTER SURVIVAL™ begins with an extraordinary accident, but it isn’t defined by that moment. It’s a memoir about surviving trauma, rebuilding a life, and living with the choices and consequences that follow. Through faith, family, forgiveness, resilience, and accountability, it asks not only what we survive, but who we become afterward.
Photographed several years after the accident. Multiple reconstructive surgeries had softened the visible scars, but many of the greatest challenges that followed remained unseen.
SURVIVAL
One defining moment.
"My brain hurts."
The accident changed a life. It didn't define it.
At ten years old, Shane Neilsen survived a catastrophic brain injury that doctors believed he should not survive. But the greatest story wasn't the accident itself. It was everything that came after: learning to heal, adapting to invisible challenges, and discovering that survival was only the beginning.
FAITH
A lesson learned over time.
“Faith doesn’t begin as certainty.”
Faith isn't presented as certainty. It's a lifelong journey.
Through moments of doubt, hope, service, and quiet reflection, AFTER SURVIVAL™ explores how faith can become an anchor during life's hardest seasons. Readers of every background will recognize the universal search for purpose and peace.
FORGIVENESS
A choice that changed everything.
"Hatred had kept me tied to the murder. Love returned me to Michelle."
Some wounds heal with time. Others heal only when we choose forgiveness.
The memoir honestly explores grief, loss, accountability, and forgiveness, showing that healing isn't found by forgetting the past but by choosing how we carry it forward.
