There is a lot to address here. I came across Wanders‘s first book awhile back and loved it so much I decided to read more. This one stood out to me because I’ve been a chronic pain sufferer off and on for most of my life. I loved her out-of-the-box thinking in her other book, Moving Beyond Slut shaming. This one isn’t quite as quirky as the other book, but it’s so packed full of helpful information I don’t even know where to start.
I will definitely be ordering a print copy and keeping it on my shelf. The meditations she includes are remarkably potent, as well as the different pain-relief techniques she invented herself when she was previously working with chronic pain sufferers like myself. What I find particularly interesting is that this book is the embodiment of all her knowledge put onto print pages. She isn’t selling coaching or anything of the sort, in fact, she doesn’t even do that anymore, but still wanted to share her knowledge, so instead she made this book. Fantastic choice, and I’m so glad she did.
And for everyone complaining that there are no pictures of the “yoga poses“ or that everything in here is “just bogus“ is obviously not open minded, and in fact so narrow minded that they think yoga consists of stretch pants and doing the splits, that they missed her entire message. Her whole point is that that’s NOT what yoga is about. And her book isn’t just about Ayurveda either.
Ayurveda is mentioned several times throughout because it is the sister science of yoga, so obviously it needs to be mentioned in a book about healing chronic pain because it was such a huge part of her journey.
Anyway, I’m so glad the author put this book into the world because I really believe it has the power to change lives, and just as she changed her own, that makes her even more of an expert because she’s been through what we have.
I would give this book 10 stars if I could.