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Dr. Anne Aspler

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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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Dr. Aspler and 1 other person liked Maribeth J's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "Dr. Anne Aspler has written the most thoughtful and transparent of memoirs. It takes courage to mine the depths of one's bewildering, chaotic, and abusive childhood, and rise into the light with a story that provides hope to all who have suffered in " Read more of this review »
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Dr. Aspler liked Heather Roberts's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "A compelling read that gripped me from the first page to the last. What I seek most in the art I consume, in all its forms, is art that asks me to think, to question, to feel and to sit with long after the experience is over. Dr. Aspler’s words have " Read more of this review »
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Dr. Aspler made a comment on Michael Cox’s review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her " Michael, thank you so much for this incredibly thoughtful review. “Gut-wrenchingly good” may be one of my favourite descriptions of the book yet -- bu ...more "
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Dr. Aspler liked Michael Cox's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "Gut-wrenchingly good. This book reminded me of a quote from my Abnormal Psych class: “the prognosis doesn’t follow the neurosis.” That idea is addressed throughout the plot—namely, that the outcome of one’s life is not defined by a singular point, reg" Read more of this review »
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Dr. Aspler liked Lynora Saxinger's review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her: "To be clear, I received an advance e-copy, as I know Dr. Aspler (since before she was in medical school!). I will note that I read it in essentially one sitting, even though I was tired and post-call, so clearly, this was an immediately engaging read" Read more of this review »
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Dr. Aspler made a comment on Emily’s review of Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her " Thank you so much, Emily. Although we’ve never met, I want you to know how much it meant to me to read this today. Writing and sharing this book has b ...more "
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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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