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My Body and Other Crumbling Empires
- Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems' dysfunction.
Learning to cooperate with her body would require her to change every aspect of her life—and in the process, to seek a radical reimagining of the world, from a place where sickness is an individual affliction to an interdependent ecosystem where sustainability is a community way of life. In this beautiful and inspiring book, Medford draws on her experiences with a rare autoimmune disease to illuminate the broader lessons we need to learn, in order to heal what ails us individually and communally. Whether our burnout stems from illness, systemic racism, poverty, or simply sin's separation, we're all in need of hope, and we are called to heal together.
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires points out the beauty and ubiquity of our limitations; the importance of accessibility, broadly construed; the interconnected nature of individual and public health; and the badly needed wisdom we have gained from living with our particular bodies.
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- alana McMullen
- 26-02-2024
would have had less religion if I had read the bible
I got this book in hopes of connecting with it due to having chronic illness. but I could have got less of a Jesus's lecture from reading the bible.
any connection I might have had a a spoonie, was over shadowed by the constant references to Jesus and the bible.
got half way through and couldn't stand to listen any further
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