{"product_id":"trembling-still-the-awful-clarity-of-a-mind-in-eclipse","title":"Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Turbulently brilliant; tuneful and mournful, poignant and funny, heart-rending and mind-grabbing, skillfully improvisational, eloquent and compelling.\"--Gabor Maté, MD, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Normal \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/i\u003e comes a raw and poignant account of the indiscriminate nature of illness--and what it's like to be on the receiving end of a diagnosis.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen Jenkinson is perhaps best known for his extensive work helping people navigate grief, death, and dying, both as the former director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital and afterward, through his Orphan Wisdom School, which seeks to cultivate deep life skills in an age of cultural fragmentation and amnesia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, the unimaginable has descended upon the \"Griefwalker\" himself. In \u003ci\u003eTrembling, Still\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen takes to the page in the wake of his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease - \"the Beast,\" as he comes to know it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten as a series of journal entries, \u003ci\u003eTrembling, Still\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical and meditative journey of reckoning that will resonate with anyone who has experienced or witnessed any radical undoing. In illness, there is pain, confusion, grace, dissolution, joy, heart-wrenching grief, light. There's sorrow. Then there's the soul's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Never, once, does the book lose its mesmeric hold. This is not a domestic document. If you seek the unexpected, seek this.\"--Martin Shaw, author of \u003ci\u003eLiturgies of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48000525697213,"sku":"BS-TC0-024538","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781645024538-HD.jpg?v=1786808357","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/trembling-still-the-awful-clarity-of-a-mind-in-eclipse","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}