Author : Mark Everett Kelly
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480995118
My Scars Tell a Story By: Mark Everett Kelly My Scars Tell a Story is Mark Everett's battle with cancer. Given a death sentence, Mark relied on his doctors, family, and faith in Jesus Christ for strength. This book is inspired by Mark's promise to share his story to galvanize those who suffer. You can overcome and rise above the pain and obstacles of life.
Author : Ted Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781945436093
Ted Meyer has created a collection of stunning images of human scars that are shocking, often beautiful and consistently compelling. Meyer leaves the brave and unflinching storytelling to his subjects and helps them document their history and experience through colorful prints taken from their scars.
Author : Ted Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781945436093
Ted Meyer has created a collection of stunning images of human scars that are shocking, often beautiful and consistently compelling. Meyer leaves the brave and unflinching storytelling to his subjects and helps them document their history and experience through colorful prints taken from their scars.
Author : Lee Gutkind
Publisher : Underland Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2016-07-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1937163261
Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herself—or when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and other diagnoses, these stories vividly depict the difficulties and sorrows—and sometimes, too, the unexpected and surprising rewards—of living with mental illness.
Author : Haider Warraich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9362136236
In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold re-examination of the nature of pain not as a simple physical sensation, but as a social and cultural experience. Warraich, who himself has lived with chronic pain, considers the ways in which our notions of pain have been shaped, not just by science but by politics and power, race and gender, by whose suffering has mattered and whose hasn't. He weaves a provocative history that carries us from medieval prohibitions on pain relief during childbirth to racist theories of pain tolerance to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. He reveals that pain often carried a spiritual dimension, erased by modern biomedicine. Today, he writes, patients with chronic pain not only suffer with no end in sight, but are stigmatized and delegitimized by the health system. The conclusion is clear: Only by reckoning with pain's complicated history alongside its intricate biology can we truly begin to alleviate suffering. The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.
Author : Bethany Frances Craig
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Courage
ISBN :
"Scars are not flaws, they add to who we are. This book follows Octavia the octopus who has newly formed scars on her face. Through her friends, Willow the whale and Henry the Hermit crab, Octavia learns to embrace her scars as they help tell her story, resiliency, and beauty."--Amazon.com
Author : Laura Lee
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982127287
From a writer whose work has been called “breathtaking and dazzling” by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses—reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind. In this stunning debut, Laura Lee weaves unforgettable and eye-opening essays on a variety of taboo topics. In “History of Scars” and “Aluminum’s Erosions,” Laura dives head-first into heavier themes revolving around intimacy, sexuality, trauma, mental illness, and the passage of time. In “Poetry of the World,” Laura shifts and addresses the grief she feels by being geographically distant from her mother whom, after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, is relocated to a nursing home in Korea. Through the vivid imagery of mountain climbing, cooking, studying writing, and growing up Korean American, Lee explores the legacy of trauma on a young queer child of immigrants as she reconciles the disparate pieces of existence that make her whole. By tapping into her own personal, emotional, and psychological struggles in these powerful and relatable essays, Lee encourages all of us to not be afraid to face our own hardships and inner truths.
Author : Erin Stewart
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1984848844
Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl in Pieces and Every Last Word. Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever. But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly. "A heartfelt and unflinching look at the reality of being a burn survivor and at the scars we all carry. This book is for everyone, burned or not, who has ever searched for a light in the darkness." --Stephanie Nielson, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven Is Here and a burn survivor
Author : Doug Lagasse
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category :
ISBN :
Inspiring stories of courage in the face of illness and of hope when all looks bleak. Dan tells his personal journey fighting cystic fibrosis, receiving a heart/double lung transplant and his battle with a litany of other illnesses - in nine different countries! Discover how our scars can become trophies of victory. Be encouraged with deeper truths about life and death, that give promise and not despair. Live!
Author : Charlotte Moundlic
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763653411
When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope.
