How do you not lose yourself after losing someone you love? Tragedy affects us all during the course of our lives. Failing to respond to tragic moments in a healthy, constructive, and knowledgeable way creates more problems. The book RISE(ING) FROM THE ASHES: TURNING TRAGEDY INTO TRIUMPH will provide solutions. This book documents the inspirational journey MY LOVE and PERRY experienced with their first born son MR. PERRY MALACHI BEASLEY III. It charts multiple struggles, tremendous adversity, and severe calamities along the way. Each chapter concludes with actionable coaching questions/homework that will keep the reader accountable, thinking critically, and interested. This parable-like blog style structure, renders a fresh new way for any reader on any platform to journey with the main characters. While encountering numerous hard lessons learned, helpful knowledge along the way, and multiple positive/progressive takeaways. As you read this incredibly inspirational story you will find yourself relating and sympathizing with their situation, as well as take away some tools for success and best practices. We start with the readers meeting our main characters Perry and My Love at a stage in their lives where despite the troubles and strife they have previously faced, they are in love and ready/willing to continue to face the world together. At this point the couple has a healthy little girl, and are currently expecting another beautiful child that they feel could be a little boy. During a routine check-up to find out the official gender of their second child, the mood changes from jubilation and excitement to sadness and worry after finding out some bad news during that same visit. By using a descriptive writing style, the reader is placed in the center of an extremely horrific situation involving the two main characters and their newborn. The author sends us on a journey documenting what events lead us up to this point and what new trials and tribulations are ahead for the main characters. The story fast forwards the reader right into the delivery room where we discover the child's physical appearance and an airvac awaiting very soon after to Phoenix Children's Hospital. There the main characters finally hear the life changing diagnosis regarding their first born son. After that decision the author seems to talk directly with the reader and poses the question, what would you say to a close family member or dear friend if you knew that you both were on your last ride together? The author discloses bearing a heavy heart for many missed opportunities to have more conversations, and maximizing on more of those moments to be present. But now understands and embraces that you can't change the past, you can only work in the present to create a better future; giving God the glory throught. The later chapters illustrate the power of a positive mindset, the importance of responding well to unfavorable situations, and who gets the glory in the process, man or God. As well as what that glory looks like compared to initial expectations. Once you get to a point where the hurt is not as painful, and you feel the urge to help others through your story, you'll make the choice to have peace and progress, in the process. Or you won't. This book walks the reader through a roller coaster type journey full of negative emotions, hurtful situations, and painful circumstances. Only to end in a place where your decisions are driven by more faith than fear more often, and you have truly risen from the ashes because you turned your tragedy into triumph.