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- English
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About this book
Judith Ford was a successful psychotherapist with a relatively new second marriage, a full-time clinical practice, and three children. She was also a runner, a yoga-practitioner, a dancer, and a writer when she came down with a mysterious illness that landed her in the hospital for a full summer and nearly ended her life. She recovered through a combination of Western medicine and shamanic journeys. A few years later she helped her parents through their final illnesses. This book is both her story and theirs, about how each of them maintained hope or sometimes despaired. It's about how they each suffered and rallied, laughed, loved, forgave, and let go. And it's about how all of us live in the shadows of the unknown and the unanswerable.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: There is an Emergency
- Chapter 2: Body, My Good Bright Dog
- Chapter 3: I Feel Very Sick. I Feel Awful.
- Chapter 4: A Minute Fiercely Burning Particle of Being
- Chapter 5: Blue Devil
- Chapter 6: All This Must Go
- Chapter 7: Steep Places
- Chapter 8: Hatch Out the Total Helplessness
- Chapter 9: For Help and Health
- Chapter 10: A Literal Hairpin
- Chapter 11: A Demented Woman
- Chapter 12: Water Buffalo
- Chapter 13: Press on Regardless
- Chapter 14: Bloody Bites
- Chapter 15: The Angel in My Blood
- Chapter 16: No Short Cut, No Invisible Path
- Chapter 17: Rolling Loose
- Chapter 18: Sickness
- Chapter 19: There Was a Door
- Chapter 20: Something To Get Used To
- Chapter 21: Suffering’s Lesson
- Chapter 22: Tedium, Despair
- Chapter 23: The Gift of Pain
- Chapter 24: Great Winds
- Chapter 25: Alleluia!
- Chapter 26: I Take My Waking Slow
- Chapter 27: Close to the Beasts
- Chapter 28: Rabbits
- Chapter 29: An Infant in a Woman’s Body
- Chapter 30: Side Effects
- Chapter 31: Fate Is What Befalls Us
- Chapter 32: This Need to Be Safely Held
- Chapter 33: Letting Go
- Chapter 34: The Dying of Bert’s Light
- Chapter 35: Aging, Everybody Knows It
- Chapter 36: There Is No Ship for You
- Chapter 37: Not a Happy Life
- Chapter 38: Bewildering Changes
- Chapter 39: The Sun Shifts Forever
- Chapter 40: She Had Always Wanted to Escape
- Chapter 41: We Can Live. And We Will.
- Chapter 42: The Mountains are Home
- Bibliography