After Surgery Illness or Trauma or Spiritual Recovery

After Surgery, Illness, or Trauma: 10Practical Steps to Renewed Energy and Health

Author: Regina Sara Ryan

Once surgery is done, healing begins. After Surgery: Wellness in Recuperation helps readers survive, even thrive, during the necessary "downtime" in recuperating from surgery, trauma or illness. Filled with down-to-earth advice and wisdom, this book empowers readers to take an active role in their own recuperation, proving that they hold the key to how well and how quickly their healing is done. Whether readers are bedridden at home or in the hospital, for a few days, weeks or even months, this is the one guide they need to create a more balanced and productive recovery. A lifesaver for anyone recuperating from surgery, it follows a clear, reader-friendly wellness approach in addressing the following:

• Managing and reducing pain
• Coping with fear, anger, frustration and other unexpected emotions
• Inspiration for renewed life during and after recovery
• Becoming an active participant in your own healing
• Dealing with well-meaning visitors, and caregivers and more.

Library Journal

Recovery is often thought of as linear, marked by daily improvements. In reality, it's often more like two steps forward, one step back. Ryan, the author of several mind-body health and wellness books, has revised her earlier The Fine Art of Recuperation to reflect changes in our understanding of the mind's influence on the healing process. Whether you're postsurgical or living with a chronic debilitating condition, stress and the conflicting emotions generated by pain, physical limitations, and even guilt can slow or inhibit recuperation. Ryan outlines useful ways to approach and defuse the negative aspects of illness, with techniques ranging from guided imagery to therapeutic silent screams. She also addresses the emotional and spiritual changes wrought by surgery or illness. The result is worthwhile reading, even for the well in body and spirit. An excellent resource; recommended for consumer health collections.--Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Dolores Kreiger
Reading this book is like having a most welcome visit from an interested, intelligent, and caring friend. Its positive, commonsensical approach strongly empowers the recuperating person to regain personal control for self-healing. I highly recommend it to those who are recovering from illness or trauma, and to professionals in the health field. - Ph.D., R.N., author of Therapeutic Touch

Tom Ferguson, MD
This is an empowering, health-active guide to many complex aspects of illness and recovery including some that doctors rarely acknowledge or understand. It belongs on the bookshelf next to books by Norman Cousins and Bernie Siegel. The perfect gift for an ailing friend. Highly recommended. - author, "Health Online" and editor/publisher of "The Ferguson Report: The Newsletter."

Richard Moss, MD
Fills an important void between that which the healthcare provider is able to offer and what each recovering person must learn to do for him/herself." - author, How Shall I Live?

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Spiritual Recovery: A Twelve-Step Guide

Author: Grant R Schnarr

Spiritual Recovery is a back-to-basics, twelve-step approach to personal spiritual development. Adapted from the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Spiritual Recovery's non-sectarian program charts a map to spiritual growth. Working through these steps brings freedom from the destructive power of guilt, fear, anger, want, and resentment. Applying the program's insights, spiritual seekers can break free from destructive compulsions and develop more loving, knowing relationships by making choices that arise from the wisdom of the heart.

Through compelling anecdotes, author Schnarr shows how to break free from the hold of destructive emotional behavior and move toward a loving, spiritual life. Thoughtful and rewarding exercises at the end of each chapter ground the insights and reinforce each individual step. The author also offers two appendices for the reader who wants to set up support groups.

Spiritual Recovery is a revision of Schnarr's 1990 Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: A Twelve-Step Approach (Abbey Press). In this new edition, Schnarr meticulously examines the reasons for the success of the twelve-step philosophy. This book has been used in such groups on five continents and has been translated in part or whole into several languages. Over 10,000 copies have been sold.

Library Journal

Based on the 12 steps of Alcholics Anonymous, this book is designed to be used as a tool in small study groups that are working on spiritual growth by breaking free of destructive behavior. Spiritual exercises such as daily prayer and self-examination are suggested after a discussion of each of the 12 steps. A revision of Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: A Twelve-Step Approach (Abbey, 1990), this work makes references to 18th-century scientist and theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg, whose works, along with the Bible, are the basis of a Christian denomination called the New Church, of which Schnarr is a minister. His encouraging insights are illuminated by his own honest struggles with personal failure and addiction.