An uplifting look at the neuroplasticity of our brains and our human ability to grow and change.
by Alison Bonds Shapiro
Shapiro suffered two debilitating and nearly fatal strokes, 24 hours apart, when she was in her fifties. She chronicles her experience of learning, through trial and error, that her attitude would play the most important role and change everything in her remarkable recovery.
In this touching book, she teaches simple principles anyone can use when faced with illness, injury, or any other seemingly insurmountable problem to transform despair into hope and dead ends into possibilities — principles like the art of the small goal, skillfulness and persistence, being creative and letting go.
Positive, direct and inspiring, Shapiro shares her experiences along with others’ wonderful stories to show what is possible.
We are there as she learns to walk again, faces the challenges before her one by one, and then applies the transformational lessons she has learned to the rest of her life. An uplifting look at the neuroplasticity of our brains and our human ability to grow and change.
$14.95 — H.J. Kramer Book, published in a joint venture with New World Library, 14 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 28, Number 5, October/November 2009.
April 15, 2012
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