The Power of the Curve

Facing life changing surgery in an attempt to correct 116 degrees of scoliosis curves, Christine Whitmarsh was given three distinct and distinctly terrifying odds - paralysis, death, or coming out of the surgery alive and functional, free to resume her nineteen year old life.Up until that moment, Christine’s life had been fairly normal as a slightly neurotic, hyper achieving, rail thin, towheaded New England teenager with ambitions to become the next Barbara Walters. Her life after the surgery would eventually become normal too, albeit a new sort of normal, as an entrepreneur, professional creative, and, unexpectedly, in the fourth decade of her life, a circus artist.But this story isn’t about navigating normal. It’s about finding your way around all the abnormal life curves: the confusing ones, painful ones, shocking ones, and growth ones. It’s about finding and embracing the strength, surprises, lessons, and ultimately, the power in all of life’s curves.