by Dana Taylor
(California, USA)
by Holly
(Darien, CT USA)
by Toni Bernhard
(Davis, CA)
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers
A guide for living skillfully with both health and life challenges.
It offers easy-to-learn but powerful tools and practices for maintaining equanimity and finding joy in the midst of profound life disruptions.
The book is Buddhist-inspired but is non-parochial; it is intended to help everyone.Re Book by Buddhist with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Note from webmaster, Katherine T Owen.
I have been aware of Toni and her book for a while now, as we are both in some facebook groups for people living with the illness M.E.
I balked at the title at first.
How to be sick?!
Where possible I talk about
living with illness
health challenges
living with ill health - it has the word health in it to keep our focus on what we want.
I compromise on this quite often, because
1. With a website, people find you based on the terms they type into the search engines, and people naturally type in words relating to illness. After all isn't that the problem - that we are living with illness.
But hey we are still living aren't we. It may not feel like it if you feel very ill, and can't do what you want to do, but if you are here on this site, then you are living, and the chances are you are probably engaged in keeping yourself positive and looking for ways to live productively with illness and perhaps even to get better. Sounds like living to me - hope, determination, the willingness to take action. Wonderful stuff.
2. I want to communicate clearly that it is OK to be ill. This is a site where you can be absolutely wonderful and be ill.
You don't have to wait to get better to be of value. You are of value right now.
You don't have to wait to get better to find pleasures in your life right now. (Though please please feel free to have a big moan - to yourself at least - from time to time, as illness is no fun!)
Anyway, I know from checking with Toni that she feels her message is very much in line with that of this site. I have read the wonderful testimonials for her book which lead me to think that knowing your value, and finding life within illness is very much the message of Toni Bernhard's book.
Besides, "Buddhist inspired" suggests to me that the book will be coming from a place of acceptance of suffering and guidance on opening to the reality of Oneness beyond the suffering.
When Toni tells us "How to be sick" she is saying the same thing as my saying "It's OK to be ill"
This makes me think of a whole new story to tell you, but the oven is beeping and my food awaits!
I wish Toni Bernhard so much luck with her book. May it bless many and help them find gifts in a time of illness.
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