Recovery | Free Book
A gentle, expert guide to the secrets of recovery, showing why we need it and how to do it better
For many of us, time spent in recovery—from a broken leg, a virus, chronic illness, or the crisis of depression or anxiety—can feel like an unwelcome obstacle on the road to health. Modern medicine too often assumes that once doctors have prescribed a course of treatment, healing takes care of itself. But recovery isn’t something that “just happens.” It is an act that we engage in and that has the potential to transform our lives, if only we can find ways to learn its rhythms and invest our time, energy, and participation.
Drawing on thirty years of medicine, and on insights from practitioners, psychologists, and writers across history, physician Gavin Francis delivers a profound, practical, and deeply hopeful guide to recovery. Rejecting the idea that healing is passive, Recovery offers tools and wisdom for convalescence, and shows how tending to our bodies, environments, and perspectives can help us move through the landscape of illness—and come out the other side whole.
In The Press
“Recovery is an essential book for our times, full of wisdom,
compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs a copy of this gem.”
–Katherine May, author of Wintering and
Enchantment
"Healing can be maddeningly slow work, Gavin Francis recognizes, but
it offers us the opportunity to live differently. Beyond the fantasy
of the quick and easy cure is the reality of living with and through
our physical limitations, which requires creativity.
Recovery offers inspiration and advice for practicing this lost
art. Throughout, Francis is alert to the political and economic forces
that undermine our efforts."
–Eula Biss, author of Having and Being Had and
On Immunity
“We spend too much time thinking about illness and hardly enough
thinking about recovery and recuperation. Gavin Francis’s literary
talent combined with his years as a seasoned medical practitioner make
Recovery a unique and delightful read.”
–Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water and
Cutting for Stone
- Title: Recovery | Free Book
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