Woke at 60

At sixty, Arlene Rotter was placed in a medically induced coma with a four percent chance of survival. What happened next defied her doctors: a spiritual encounter at the edge of death, and a recovery that had her learning to walk again within eleven days.

But the ICU was only the beginning. Woke at 60 follows her through rehabilitation and back through her life as an educator and school founder, and into what her mind had hidden for decades: a sexual assault so vile it stayed buried in her unconscious. Through faith, forgiveness, and sheer will, she rebuilt her life, with a new farm, new books, and, at seventy, an entirely new career.

“This is my true story about my near death experience, paralysis, and dealing with a sexual assault so vile that it remained hidden in my unconscious mind for decades.”