Singing Through Fire — Lara Silverman
To hear more of Lara’s story, purchase her bestselling book. You can also watch Lara’s interview on Youtube or listen on any podcast platform. I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home. I attended an Armenian evangelical church and had great parents and a wonderful sister, so I didn’t have much exposure to suffering as a child. I was very “type A” so my full time occupation was chasing gold stars. I always wanted to be a lawyer because I loved public speaking, and years later I ended up at Stanford Law School. After that, I worked for two federal judges and then worked at a big law firm for three years, loving every second. Fast forward to January 2018, I had just turned thirty years old, and had just been hired at my dream job as a federal prosecutor. But on the second week of the job, everything in my life changed. I fell mysteriously ill with a very rare neurological illness. The doctors threw a million diagnoses at me. I tried countless pharmaceuticals, treatments, specialists. You name it, nothing stuck. None of the treatments worked. To give an overview, my illness stems from a faulty connection between the vestibular system in my ears, and my brain such that I can’t tell where I am in space at any given time. I have two small holes in my inner ears from birth which can’t be corrected by surgery and which exacerbate the problem. The upshot is that whenever I sit up, the world spins hard around me in my vision. But back in 2018, eight years ago, at the start of all this, after ten months of trying treatments, nothing worked, so I was forced to resign from the United States Attorney’s office without ever being on the job. The
