Buddhish: Exploring Buddhism in a Time of Grief: One Doctor's Story

by Melissa Yuan-Innes

When you can't eat, pray, or love. Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes married her high school sweetheart, launched her career as an emergency doctor, rescued a Golden Retriever, and best of all, expected a baby in July. Then she delivered a stillborn baby girl. What do you do when your heart shatters, and you've always relied on science instead of religion? What if your friends have no words for you, and you feel absolutely alone in the darkness? Join Melissa on a fresh journey inward, where even a teaspoon of Buddhism-becoming "Buddhish"-helps her, and all of us, wade through grief and slowly rekindle joy. "A moving look at stillbirth, miscarriage, [and] grief....An accessible introduction to some aspects of Buddhist thought which informed me, a complete novice. By turns wry, sarcastic, self-aware, and heart-breaking, it invites comparison with C.S. Lewis' _A Grief Observed_....Warmly recommended."-Gregory L. Smith, M.D. "I am a better person and a better Buddhist (whatever that label means) for having read this book."-Barry W. Morris, Author of _The Practical Buddhist_

192 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2017

About the author

I read, therefore I am. I've been reading since my parents used to abandon me at the library.

When I was ten years old, we moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to a relative dearth of English books, and I started writing stories instead.

We moved back to Canada, and I started reading voraciously again, abandoning my pen and word processor for a few years before picking them up again. Nowadays, I read and write whenever I can, although my day/night jobs of emergency medicine and motherhood whisk me away regularly.