Finding My Invincible Summer by Muriel Vasconcellos (best ebook reader android TXT) π
The memoir focuses on a 20-year arc in the author's life with flashbacks to a tragedy in her childhood that left her with lifelong corrosive guilt and to a deeply painful experience as a young adult that has haunted her with remorse.
She eventually finds love and happiness when she meets her soul mate, Sylvio. Their life together is magic - a true love story. His unconditional support infuses her with confidence and self-trust. They have six happy years together - until she finds a lump in her breast and learns that she has cancer. Just when they think they have overcome this hurdle, life turns dark again: Sylvio asks her to take him to the Emergency Room, and he never comes home. As he struggles to die, he begs her to help him make his passage. The doctors agree to withdraw life support, but she cannot come to terms with the decision. Soon afterwards, she is told that cancer has spread to her bones. Unremitting pain, both physical and psychological, sends her to the depth of despair, where she seeks to end her life.
Instead, something shifts inside and she embarks on a courageous quest for health that includes not only her body but also her psyche and spirit. She releases the limiting beliefs and self-punishing thoughts that have trapped her for most of her life and discovers that all aspects of her being are a single tapestry; when one part heals, so do the others. Her pain disappears and her medical tests stabilize. New insights constantly expand her awareness and understanding. They always seem to appear at the moment she is ready.
As she continues her journey, she has her third bout with cancer. This time she has the understanding and tools to walk away from conventional treatment and practice gentle approaches to becoming and staying well. In the end, she finds deep inner joy and serenity - her invincible summer.
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- Author: Muriel Vasconcellos
Read book online Β«Finding My Invincible Summer by Muriel Vasconcellos (best ebook reader android TXT) πΒ». Author - Muriel Vasconcellos
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Muriel Vasconcellos has been a translator for 40 years in medicine, public health, environment, international organizations; speaker of Portuguese and Spanish (book being translated into Portuguese); Ph.D. in linguistics with over 100 published articles; writer on translation theory, machine translation (international lifetime achievement award 1999 and award as founder of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2012), and human interest topics, including blog; landscape designer with expertise in plants; interested in alternative healing, photography, design, dogs, the Enneagram of personality as a spiritual path.
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