Beyond the Chair

Finding Purpose, Faith, and Life Beyond the Diagnosis

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This Book Was Written for You

This book was written in a dialysis chair.

Not metaphorically. Not as a creative device. Literally — sitting in a reclining chair, connected to a machine that was cleaning my blood three times a week, four hours each session — I wrote this book.

Because the people I sit beside in those chairs needed something I could not find anywhere else to give them.

Beyond the Chair was written for:

The dialysis patient who is still trying to figure out who they are now that this diagnosis has changed everything.
The caregiver sitting in the waiting room wondering if there is anything left for them when they get home.
The person who just received a life-changing diagnosis and does not yet know how to hold it.
The family member who loves someone in the chair and does not know what to say.
The medical professional who sees the human being beneath the patient every single day.

And for anyone — with or without kidney disease — who has ever sat in a place they did not choose and wondered: is there a life beyond this?

There is. This book will show you what it looks like.

What You Will Walk Away With

Beyond the Chair is 28 chapters of honest, faith-grounded, practical wisdom for people navigating the intersection of serious illness and real life.

It includes a special Word to the Newly Diagnosed — for the person who just heard news that changed everything and does not yet know how to take the next breath.

A Word to Caregivers — for the people who carry so much for so long that everyone forgets they are carrying anything at all.

And a Word to Dialysis Staff — honoring the people who show up three times a week for patients who are sometimes too tired or too afraid to say thank you.

This book will give you:

The language to understand what your body and spirit are going through — in plain words, not medical jargon.
A faith framework for survival that does not require you to perform strength you do not have.
Practical tools for living beyond the limitations of what the chair, the machine, or the diagnosis says about your future.
And the absolute conviction that a diagnosis is not a destiny.

A Word from Inside the Pages

"The chair does not define you. It is where you sit — not who you are. You are still a person with a purpose, a story with more chapters, a life that has not finished surprising you yet. You are beyond this chair. Even while you are in it."

— Pastor Nicole Washington, Beyond the Chair

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About the Author

Nicole Washington

Pastor Nicole Washington is an author, Bible teacher, speaker, patient advocate, and founder of Nicole Washington Ministries. With 38+ years of ministry experience and 15+ books in print, she writes and teaches from the middle of real life — illness, caregiving, grief, and the stubborn work of believing God when nothing looks like what you prayed for.

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