Teach Us to Sit Still : A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

from bjmitch

Tim Parks is a successful writer who has written novels, nonfiction, and various magazine articles. Now he has written a unique memoir in which he is searching for a diagnosis or solution to mysterious pains and other physical symptoms no one can figure out. Rather than a sad, whiny, poor-ol'-me ...

from agathanaylor

I enjoyed this book. Well written, autobiographical , universal in its insights.

from eachurch

Writing about pain is difficult. It is difficult to describe, and difficult to convey how it affects one's life without sounding whiny. Parks successfully does both these things. He then does a fabulous job of describing his unconventional and hope-inspiring road to recovery. The way he describes...

from eachurch

Writing about pain is difficult. It is difficult to describe, and difficult to convey how it affects one's life without sounding whiny. Parks successfully does both these things. He then does a fabulous job of describing his unconventional and hope-inspiring road to recovery. The way he describes...