About Me
Rhonda Hudson is a Monaco-based author, Soul Purpose Coach, Kundalini Yoga and Breathwork Facilitator, and President of the Kate Powers Foundation. For more than thirty years, she has explored consciousness, spirituality and human transformation, helping others reconnect with a deeper sense of self, purpose and possibility.
Her personal journey alongside her father through dementia brought those teachings into an entirely new reality and became the inspiration for The Blessings of Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Part memoir and part invitation to see dementia differently, the book is ultimately a love story between a daughter and her father—one that asks what remains when memory, roles and familiar identities begin to disappear.
Rhonda describes her work as that of an Architect of Remembrance, helping others remember the presence, connection and love that can exist beyond a diagnosis.
My Story
When my father collapsed while working as a school crossing guard in California in 2021, I boarded one of the first flights permitted from Europe during the COVID travel restrictions, not knowing what had happened—only knowing that I needed to be there.
In the months and years that followed, I found myself at my father’s bedside through recurring episodes, hospital admissions, rehabilitation, appointments with specialists, and eventually a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia. There were so many questions we could not answer and so much that none of us yet understood. I was not prepared for the world we were entering. I was his daughter, trying to make sense of what was happening and searching for answers after everything familiar suddenly changed.
Yet within the uncertainty, something unexpected began to reveal itself. As I learned to walk beside my father through the episodes, hallucinations, and shadows he was experiencing, I began to see more clearly what remained. The deepest part of who he was had not disappeared. Love was still there. Connection was still possible. And when words, logic, or memory could no longer reach him, presence often could.
The Blessings of Alzheimer’s & Dementia is a spiritual memoir born from this journey.
It is an intimate exploration of what it means to love someone whose experience of the world is changing, and of what may be discovered when we stop measuring a life only by what the mind can remember.
During these same months, I was also grieving the death of my beloved friend Kate and walking beside my partner Ian after a devastating bicycle accident. Within a span of just seven months in 2021, these three experiences changed the landscape of my life. Each asked something different of me, yet all brought me to the same quiet threshold: the place where control ends and love asks us to remain.
It was through loving my father, grieving Kate, and walking alongside Ian that I began to understand the work that had been forming quietly within me. I call it the work of the Architect of Remembrance: helping us return to the truth of who we are and allowing that remembrance to become embodied in the way we live.
Woven throughout the memoir are the practices that helped me remain present: breathwork, meditation, imagination, reflection, play, prayer, and simple moments of human connection. They are offered not as answers, but as gentle companions for caregivers, families, and anyone learning to live beside uncertainty, loss, or change—as well as those quietly questioning what gives our lives meaning and purpose.
I believe every human being carries an innate blueprint of love, wisdom, and soul purpose. For me, remembrance is returning again and again to the awareness of what is most true within us and allowing that truth to shape the way we love, choose, create, and live.
"Sometimes the greatest blessing is not that another person remembers us, but that through loving them, we remember ourselves."
Available Formats including Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback & Audible Released Coming Early 2027
"Dear Rhonda I feel very privileged that you have asked me to write a few words about your wonderful book. Hope these words are worthy of all the research and hours spent to write this book.
Rhonda’s wonderful words describing her recognition and understanding of Dementia and Alzheimer’s, and following her Father’s journey, gives a true understanding of this dreadful illness and its affect on their family and friends, as those diagnosed slowly revert back to childhood memories."
Marie
"Reading this chapter reminded me about all the talks Rhonda and I had about her Dad and about the difficulty on living so far apart. But in all our conversations, there was never once a negative thought, or a complaint. Rhonda is the only person I know, who can see in every challenge an opportunity rather than a problem. She lives by the words she speaks and has the utmost trust and faith in positive outcomes, and therefore it then manifests. This book will inspire many people to see Alzheimer and Dementia from a different angle, because it is based on real life experience. "
Ina
"I felt very emotional,a mix of sadness, disorientation, fear and anxiety because there you leave the known and you enter in the unknown, you realise you have lost the control, it’s like the earth under your feet starts crumbling and you need to find a new balance not to fall. But such is the surprise to discover the father you have known forever has now lost himself and he is becoming the unknown ground.
There is not one way, the way of the heart to communicate"
Donatella
"What struck me in this chapter was how relatable it was. Even though I’ve never experienced having a parent with Alzheimer’s, I’ve experienced loving a parent who is living on the other side of the world and assuming that they are OK. The style in which the author describes the reality of the situation is somehow poetic and not tragic as one would imagine it would be. It feels more like an understanding of reality versus a feeling of doom. The writing style feels familiar, almost like a friend telling you a story. It is a quick read, and even though the subject could be heavy, the style of writing is such that I could imagine myself reading the book on a lounge chair at the beach. I truly look forward to reading more chapters!"
Lauren
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