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Time and Patience
My Journey Through Stroke Recovery
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When Claudio Pettinaro collapsed onto the bathroom floor one winter morning, he had no idea his life was about to split in two—before the stroke, and after. What followed was a year defined by confusion, fear, emotional upheaval, and the slow,...
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Regulating the Inner You
A Photographic and Poetic Twist on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills
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Spinning like a top—that’s sometimes how I feel. And then what do you do with these feelings? How do you slow down—or, better yet, stop? With stress only compounding in our modern age, we need innovative coping techniques, ones we can return to...
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Living with a Primitive Brain
Understanding Trauma and Recovery
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Every day we are faced with new experiences, new challenges, and new memories to store. We navigate through the world, attempting to make something of this phenomenon we call ‘life.’ Not so often, however, do we encounter situations and...
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Essential Ingredients
The Quest for Human Kibble
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Is it possible to survive eating only one type of food? Have you ever wondered what makes the ideal human food? Do we even know what people need to eat to be healthy? I designed a “Science Food” that I consumed at every meal for more than one...
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The Angry Vaginasaurus Rex
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She’s fierce. She’s furious. She’s menopausal. Hi, I’m Sasha, and I wrote The Angry Vaginasaurus Rex because I was confused, lonely, and very tired of being told, “It’s just aging.” There’s an invisibility that sneaks up on women, and I decided I...
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Nothing Forgotten
Where Love Lingers
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At some time in our life we will feel the sadness of cognitive impairment or memory loss. It may be our own or that of someone we love. We need stories to shape our sadness in heart-healing ways. This is one of those stories. In it we follow "the...
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Wildcraft Medicine In the Presence of Wonder
A Practical Guide to the Medicinal Gifts of the Earth, and Her Traditional Lore
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"...to build a solid foundation for understanding wild medicine and its practical use in our daily life, we must begin at the source. We must recognize the role ecology plays in the lives of these plants. The medicine is more than the plant...
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Reality and Romance
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When a devastating head injury turned her world upside down, Gay Beaumont found herself separated from her beloved son and forced to rebuild her life from the haze of a coma. Amid the confusion and pain, she discovered an unexpected lifeline:...
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Grandma's Voice
24 Tales of Natural Healing
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Herein lies hope for people tired of suffering with physical ailments and unhappiness. 24 Tales of Natural Healing is a collection of stories about healing events which I have facilitated and witnessed over the last 40 years. I share these...
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Dry
A Holistic Guide to Sjogren’s Disease
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If you’ve been diagnosed with—or suspect you may have—Sjögren's disease, you might feel helpless or overwhelmed, and you almost certainly feel dry and sore and too exhausted to sort out all the information coming at you. The mental load of...
