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Healing into Possibility: The Transformational Lessons of a Stroke [NOOK Book]
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Alison Bonds Shapiro suffered two debilitating and nearly fatal strokes in her fifties. Healing into Possibility chronicles her experience of learning, through trial and error, that her attitude would play the most important role in her remarkable recovery. In this touching book, Shapiro teaches simple principles that anyone can use when faced with illness, injury, or any other seemingly insurmountable problem to transform despair into hope and dead ends into possibilities.
Foreword James S. Gordon, MD xiii
A Story of Transformation xvii
Part 1 Showing Up
Chapter 1 Strokes Happen 3
Chapter 2 A Lifelong Dream 11
Chapter 3 Taking Responsibility 23
Chapter 4 Affecting Your Own Life 31
Chapter 5 Facing Forward 43
Part 2 Opening Your Heart
Chapter 6 Finding a Reason to Live 51
Chapter 7 Cultivating Gratitude 61
Chapter 8 Laughter and Lovingkindness 67
Chapter 9 Life Is Happening Now 81
Part 3 Starting From Where You Are
Chapter 10 Who Can You Be Now? 93
Chapter 11 Paying Attention 103
Chapter 12 The Art of the Small Goal 111
Chapter 13 Habituating the Disability 125
Part 4 Being Skillful
Chapter 14 Believing in Change 135
Chapter 15 Skillfulness and Persistence 145
Chapter 16 Being Creative 155
Chapter 17 Training Past the Disability 165
Part 5 Practicing Self-Care
Chapter 18 You Are the Tool 177
Chapter 19 Minimizing Stressors 187
Chapter 20 Being Kind to Yourself 197
Chapter 21 Reestablishing the Social Body 205
Part 6 What Now?
Chapter 22 Beginnings 217
Chapter 23 Putting the Lessons into Practice 225
Chapter 24 Eight Principles of Transformation 237
Afterword 253
Acknowledgements 255
About the Author 257
Overview
Alison Bonds Shapiro suffered two debilitating and nearly fatal strokes in her fifties. Healing into Possibility chronicles her experience of learning, through trial and error, that her attitude would play the most important role in her remarkable recovery. In this touching book, Shapiro teaches simple principles that anyone can use when faced with illness, injury, or any other seemingly insurmountable problem to transform despair into hope and dead ends into possibilities.