Jeanne Malmgren

Broschiertes Buch

Good Eye, Bad Eye

A memoir of trauma and truth

Beschreibung

In this luminous memoir, a Buddhist psychotherapist uses her understanding of suffering to confront her own trauma history, as she comes to terms with the truth of what happened to her in childhood. The book asks compelling questions about the aftereffects of injury and living with disability: ¿Can a childhood accident permanently damage our psyche? ¿Is it possible to heal from the physical and psychological wounds of trauma? ¿Is the term "disabled" an indignity, or an identity to be embraced? At age 2, Jeanne Malmgren suffered an injury that would scar her forever. Her story will inspire anyone who lives with a disability or has endured trauma of any kind. Good Eye, Bad Eye launches readers on an emotional roller coaster of shame, the poignant yearning to be "normal," and the author's eventual discovery of a spiritual path that brings her peace and acceptance. This is also a detective story as Jeanne searches for the truth of what exactly happened to her in childhood-a truth withheld from her by those who loved her most. The answer she finally uncovers is bittersweet. Good Eye, Bad Eye is a primer on how the human brain struggles to handle overwhelming events, how therapists help their patients heal, and how the truth sets us free.

Autor

Jeanne Malmgren is an author and psychotherapist who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountain of South Carolina. She holds two degrees from Clemson University: a B.A. in Modern Languages and an M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health. During her first career of journalism, she worked as an Associate Editor at The Mother Earth News magazine, then spent 20 years as a feature writer and editor at Florida's largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there was published in many national newspapers via newswire and won awards from the Florida Society of News Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.Jeanne is a longtime Buddhist and co-founded a meditation center in Florida. She co-authored "Journey to Mindfulness" (Wisdom Publications), the autobiography of her spiritual teacher, the eminent meditation master Venerable H. Gunaratana. She now has a private practice of psychotherapy, her second career, where she specializes in mindfulness- and nature-based treatment.In recent years, Jeanne's writing has appeared in literary magazines, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was anthologized in a collection of nature essays focusing on Upstate South Carolina. She won a writing residency from the Emrys Foundation for the Arts and publishes an internationally popular Substack newsletter, "Rx Nature."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Green Bird Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9798218577100
• Artikelnr.: 72678349