Waking [Audiobook] download free by Matthew Sanford
- Listen audiobook: Waking
- Author: Matthew Sanford
- Release date: 2008/4/24
- Publisher: RODALE PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Health
- ISBN: 9781594868450
- Rating: 9.94 of 10
- Votes: 481
- Review by: Bryan Reno
- Review rating: 9.01 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/31
- Duration: 3H16M49S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WavPack, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WMA Lossless, WMA, Vorbis (compression TZO, RAR, ZIP, ARC, Z, TAR, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M19S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy lowa road. On that day, his family's car skidded off an overpass, killing Matt's father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair. His mother and brother escaped from the accident unharmed but were left to pick up the pieces of their decimated family. This pivotal event set Matt off on a lifelong journey, from his intensive care experiences at the Mayo Clinic to becoming a paralyzed yoga teacher and founder of a non-profit organization. Forced to explore what it truly means to live in a body, he emerges with an entirely new view of being a whole person.'Waking' is a chronicle of that process. By turns agonizingly personal, philosophical, and heartbreakingly honest, this groundbreaking memoir takes the reader inside the body, heart, and mind of a boy whose world has been shattered. The author allows us to follow with him as he rebuilds from the ground up, searching for healing stories to help him reconnect his mind and his body. To do so, he must reject much of what traditional medicine tells him and instead turn to yoga as a centerpiece of his daily practice.The author finds not only a better life, but meaning and purpose in the mysterious distance that we all experience between mind and body.In searingly candid, frequently poetic language, Sanford pulls back the curtain on what it means to survive devastating trauma, from returning to a broken life to the uncertainty of finding sexual intimacy with a paralyzed body. But first and foremost the author offers a powerful message about the endurance of the human spirit, and of the body that houses it.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Coping With Disability, Autobiography: General, Memoirs
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.56 USD
- Dimensions: 140x217x19mm
- Weight: 278g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Pennsylvania, United States
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