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Anne Aspler is a Harvard-trained emergency physician and the author of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her (riseaftersilence.com), a memoir tracing the threads between the patients she treated and the private violence she survived. She writes and speaks about women's brain health, religious deconstruction, neurodivergence, and the realities of intimate partner violence — decoding what medicine, faith, and silence cost us, and what healing actually requires.

A keynote speaker for corporate audiences including RBC and Scotiabank, she holds an academic appointment at the University of Toronto and has spent over two decades in emergency departments in Canada and abroad, including humanitarian work overseas. She is an ...more

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6,000+ Want to Read — Thank You ❤️

I logged into Goodreads today and realized that more than 6,000 of you have now marked Rise After Silence as Want to Read — and more than 7,000 people entered the Goodreads giveaway. I'm incredibly grateful.

This book took five years to write. It weaves stories from my career as an emergency physician with my own story of confronting the things my family didn't talk about — and learning what can ha Read more of this blog post »

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Anne Aspler liked Senali 's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "I do not usually say this about a book, but I think everyone should read this memoir. It does not matter whether you are a man, a woman, or simply a human being trying to understand the world we live in. This is a story that needs to be heard. But be" Read more of this review »
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Anne Aspler and 3 other people liked Michelle Godard-Richer's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "Dr. Aspler is a caring, brave, strong, and insightful writer. She survived traumatic events as a child and now she helps patients who’ve suffered similar experiences. Her memoir is poignant and touching as it takes the reader on her journey of healin" Read more of this review »
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Stephanie Weaver has written one of the most generous, thoughtful, and highly readable memoirs of childhood sexual abuse I have encountered. I was fortunate to read Bitter, Sweet in the spring, and it has stayed with me ever since. What struck me most ...more
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