Winner of three awards---a 2012 eLit Award, a 2013 Indie Next Generation
Award, and a 2013 Living Now award---Flowing with the Go-A Jiu-Jitsu
Journey of the Soul is the story of one woman's path through grief. For
what seemed like a lifetime and probably was, Elena Stowell wandered
aimlessly in a personal prison of self-doubt and lack of purpose after
her fifteen-year-old daughter Carly died suddenly before her eyes. By
some combination of miracle and necessity, she walked into a Seattle
area Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym and rolled for the first time in her life.
Through that experience and others that followed, Elena discovered the
tenets of the martial art form and healing were the same. With a ripping
raw honesty and refreshing balance of humor and introspection, Elena's
story reminds us to never stop panning for the gold within ourselves.