Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman is one soul’s journey through collapse, transformation, and the mystery of becoming What if the life you thought you were supposed to live… simply wasn’t yours? And what if that life collapsing was the most sacred thing that could ever happen? In Stumbling Into Grace , author and spiritual guide Micah Schwader offers a story of unraveling—and finding grace in the tangled threads of becoming. Raised in a world that offered no language for who they truly were, Micah spent years chasing success, approval, and belonging—until everything fell away. Business loss. Personal crisis. Near-death experiences. Each undoing became an opening. Each crack, a portal. What began as personal crises turned into something else entirely: an unexpected path of healing, spirit, and the quiet remembering of a self that had never truly been lost. Guided by the rhythms of shamanism and the rituals of sacred writing, Micah walked between worlds—retrieving lost pieces of identity, listening to the unseen, and slowly stitching together a life that was never about becoming someone new… but returning to the essence that was always there. This is a memoir about what it means to listen to the deeper call beneath the noise. About shedding the stories we’re told—and finding the ones that fit. It’s about finding grace not at the mountaintop, but in the mess. In the mystery. In the in-between. Told with raw honesty and poetic insight, this is the story of a life dismantled and remade—not in spite of its cracks, but because of them. If you've ever stood between identities... If you've longed for language that speaks to both pain and purpose... If you've felt the quiet call to awaken what’s been sleeping inside... This book is for you. You don’t need to know about shamanism. You don’t need to understand gender identity. You only need to listen for the voice beneath the noise. Because sometimes, grace doesn’t arrive as clarity— It stumbles in, through the cracks.