Awakening in an Age of Metals by Michelle O’Connell Katz, book cover with a striped feather

The memoir

Awakening in an Age of Metals

From devastating illness to spiritual rebirth.

A powerful memoir of environmental illness, spiritual awakening, and one woman’s journey beyond the limits of modern medicine — into the forgotten, unseen, and ancestral places we’ve been taught to overlook.

The book traces Michelle’s passage from a successful television career through debilitating chronic illness and mercury poisoning, and into a profound reexamination of health, healing, and the nature of reality.

A story of transformation

A shared-death experience with my deceased father, a Holocaust survivor, in the Amazon jungle changed me in every way possible. An extraordinary personal journey through illness, consciousness, healing, and the search for a different way forward.