The Breaching

What if the very waters that tried to drown you were the same ones destined to set you free?

In The Breaching, U.S. Air Force veteran and author Kelli Lumsden invites readers into a deeply personal voyage of trauma, faith, and transformation; told through the awe-inspiring symbolism of whales. From the tender innocence of The Calf, through The Migration, The Deep, and The Song, to the triumphant emergence of The Breaching, each part mirrors a woman’s spiritual and emotional evolution from brokenness to wholeness.

Through hauntingly poetic storytelling, Lumsden parallels her own life; marked by abandonment, loss, survival, and redemption, with the archetypes of the sea’s greatest navigators. The humpback’s song becomes the voice she learns to reclaim; the gray whale’s migration reflects her endurance; the orca’s leadership symbolizes her calling to help others rise from the deep.

This is more than a memoir; it’s a movement of hope for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unworthy, or unanchored.

With faith as her compass and honesty as her current, Kelli reveals how God met her in the depths, teaching her that healing doesn’t happen in the shallows; it happens when we dare to dive deep.

For every woman still swimming through her own storm, The Breaching is a sacred reminder:
You are not forgotten.
You are not too far gone.
You were created to rise.