Sunbathing In The Rain

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846426499
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunbathing in the Rain written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunbathing in the Rain is undoubtedly the best book I have ever read about one person's experience of depression.' - Dorothy Rowe, author of Breaking the Bonds 'This upbeat, very readable and engaging view of depression as a temporary retrenchment, a breathing space in which to adjust better to life, makes encouraging reading.' - Spectator 'Gwyneth Lewis writes with clarity, beauty and metaphorical precision. She conveys the darkness, the silence, the selfishness, the mental clutter of depression brilliantly.' - Simon Hattenstone, Guardian 'Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis shares her personal story of wrestling with clinical depression and describes what she learned along the way about coping with the disease. The text is aimed primarily at those who are currently depressed and are struggling to recover. The emphasis throughout is on the healing power of self-acceptance and truth-telling. This is a reprint of a book first published in London by Flamingo in 2002.' - www.booknews.com This might well be the Age of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease directly or see a friend or relative succumb to it. Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression. Depression is assassination. The depressive is both victim and detective - charged with tracking down the perpetrator of his or her own murder. By drawing on her own experience of struggling with the affliction, by highlighting ways of coping, ways of truth-telling, and ways of thriving, in a straightforward, robust fashion full of casual wisdom and easy wit, Gwyneth re-embarks on a journey that nearly killed her first time round and returns with this, perhaps the first truly undogmatic, undemanding, downright useful book about depression.

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunbathing in the rain written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher : Seren
ISBN 13 : 1781721254
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meat Tree written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by Seren. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the Mabinogion fourth branch, including the story of Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers. A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays out withing he wreckage of an ancient spaceship in The Meat Tree; an absorbing retelling of one of the best know Welsh myths from prize-winning writer and poet, Gwyneth Lewis. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship's crew from its antiquated virtual reality game systrem, but their empirical approach falters as the story tangles with their own imagination.

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry sequel to Sunbathing in the Rain, this book is about depression. It is partly set in a mental hospital, but the treatment here, is playful and uplifting. The author has written this book first in Welsh, and then reinvenented and expanded it in English.

Author : Berit Brogaard, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069819036X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superhuman Mind written by Berit Brogaard, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have managed to gain a degree of conscious access to this potent processing power. The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves—from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged creativity. The Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698145615
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Before the Rains Come written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Travel Light, Move Fast "One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing."—Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller. Leaving Before the Rains Come begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller’s delicate balance—between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage—irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia—elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day—Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller’s father—"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife—was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear. Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how, after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her, she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves. An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller’s Africa.

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852248994
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparrow Tree written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing on flights of avian fancy or fantasy on several levels, Sparrow Tree moves from considering birdsong as proto-language to examining birds as decorative beings.

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaotic Angels written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwyneth Lewis is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing separate collections in English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her first three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003).

Author : Cathy Wield
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857757293
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After Darkness written by Cathy Wield and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a doctor and mother of four, who endured seven years of severe depression. Years of self-harm, attempted suicides and admissions to psychiatric units culminated in her resorting to brain surgery as a final attempt to escape her illness. This story is one of hope from an often hidden and stigmatised disease.

Author : Sally Brampton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826380
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot the Damn Dog written by Sally Brampton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoot the Damn Dog blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called 'the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates its sufferers. It is a personal account of a journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition.