Reading Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, is teaching me so much. At age thirty-seven, Jill suffered a massive stroke, and she shares her courageous experience of recovery in this wonderful book. As healing is the theme of my blog and as I’ve been healing and working [...]
Archive for the ‘stroke’ Category
Our Magnificent Existence
Posted in emotional health, healing, medical memoir, medicine and literature, stroke, trauma, tagged Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, healing, medical humanities, memoir, surgery on September 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Categories
- addiction
- adult PTSD
- affirmations
- anesthesia
- art therapy
- body memory
- cetaceans
- child development
- child PTSD
- depression
- disability
- dolphins
- Dr. Robert Sapolsky
- Drawings & Images
- Eating Issues
- emotional health
- healing
- Illness narratives
- Ilse Middendorf
- infant anesthesia
- infant PTSD
- infant surgery
- infant trauma
- learned helplessness
- learning disabilities
- medical humanities
- medical memoir
- Medical Narrative
- medicine and literature
- meditation
- mind/body holistic health movement
- neurobiology
- parenting
- pediatric trauma
- Poetry
- psychological therapy
- PTSD
- somatic bodywork
- stress
- stroke
- suicide
- the study of literature
- trauma
- Uncategorized
- Upledger Institute
- Writing
-
Recent Comments
wendy williams on Curing and Healing wendy williams on Curing and Healing Fred Vanderbom on Curing and Healing Liza on Curing and Healing Wendy on Curing and Healing Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
