The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life Author: Donna Jackson Nakazawa | Language: English | ISBN:
B008BM4LK4 | Format: PDF
The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life Description
One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife and mother she was determined to get her life back.
Over the course of one year, Nakazawa researches and tests a variety of therapies including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture to find out what works. But the discovery of a little-known branch of research into Adverse Childhood Experiences causes her to have an epiphany about her illness that not only stuns her—it turns her life around.
Perfect for readers of Gretchen Rubin's
The Happiness Project, Nakazawa shares her unexpected discoveries, amazing improvements, and shows readers how they too can find their own last best cure.
- File Size: 627 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Hudson Street Press; 1 edition (February 21, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008BM4LK4
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Everyone should read this book! I was very lucky to receive an early copy of this incredible book, and I literally could not put it down.. I had been waiting for Nakazawa's next book, because I had loved reading Autoimmune Epidemic and had learned so much from it. I read her last book really for my loved ones who suffer from autoimmune disease, so I could understand their struggles more clearly. I wasn't expecting this book to speak to me personally, knowing that the author was going to be writing about dealing with a chronic physical condition earlier in her life. But as the pages unfolded, I realized that her desire to find joy and move past pain and all the fears that plague us -- WHATEVER our source of suffering might be -- was EXACTLY the place I find myself in at this point in my life. The further I got in the book, the more I identified with her, and the more I wanted her to WIN! She blends science with her own story seamlessly - making it easy to follow and fold into my understanding of myself. I came away with some great tools to find ways to increase my own sense of joy despite my migraines, my daily struggle with anxiety, and every other challenge in my life that feels like an obstacle. Nakazawa explains in this book how everything works against us, our biology, our brains, our lives. And yet taking the simple steps to engage in the science-based practices she outlines is vital because, as this book helped me to understand, finding joy is like taking a vitamin that's as protective as any medicine in our medicine cabinet. I will be taking that vitamin every day because I want my joy back, too. I will honestly be recommending this book to all my friends and will be buying more than a few copies to give as gifts.(less)
By S. Judd
I stayed up all night to finish this great book. I fell in love with the authors story and what unfolded surprised me. She is an award winning science journalist but she writes about her efforts to find joy through the science in a memoir form and weaves the two together beautifully.
The author finds out about an area of research relating really difficult things in childhood to later having physical conditions in adulthood. On two levels this really captured me. First, the science is riveting and I found it echoed some of my own issues with MS. Second, the book began to read like a detective novel, as she tried to piece together the relationship between the past and not only her present chronic health issues but also her difficulty in finding joy.
As I read the book, I found myself rooting for the author, doing every practice she practiced, and feeling better as she felt better. It was as much a healing experience for me as it was a great read.
This book reminded me of the bestseller, Blindsided, only it spoke to me much more, because it was as if she was inside my life as a woman and as a mom.
I loved it!
By K. Minear
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