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Becoming the Healer
$19.99 – $37.99
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Aaron –
Great book!
Dr. Urszula Klich –
In “Becoming a Healer,” author Deborah Schlag shares her observations, struggles, and successes with overcoming Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBT). Hers is an inspiring story of coming to terms with confusion, loss of memory and need to leave behind an old identity and discover a new way of living. Becoming a Healer is a hopeful story that will lead you step by step through the unfolding of the aftermath of her injury and the challenge of handling the simplest of everyday tasks necessary for running a household.
During her process of growth through reliance on various methods of healing including her faith, compassion, and biofeedback. As Schlag rebuilds her life she finds the importance of living in the present moment. She learns many unexpected lessons along the way that help her get back to living a full, rich life.
Dr. Urszula Klich, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
My Mindful Way of Life, Llc. Atlanta
#888888 –
BRILLIANT! I have just finished Deborah’s book which all trainee neurology doctors should read. Like Deborah I too had a brain injury, although mild. Many symptoms she experienced I too experienced, but the doctors could not offer any help or explanation for. If you or a family member is finding recovery from head trauma difficult then read Deborah’s book, it might just help you and your family understand what the patient is going through. Thank you Deborah.
Utica, NY –
Great Book! This book is amazing, as is the author’s recovery. Having been in the medical field, it was an eye opener and very interesting. She has not only recovered, but began a new career special to her recovery modes. A true God given gift! I wonder if she knows my cousin who heals in the same type of ways.
Bess –
This is an amazing book, written from the perspective of the person who has lived it. This is a book that should be read by everyone who has ever suffered a brain injury because it offers so much hope for recovery. It should also be required reading for anyone who is involved in the treatment and recovery of a person with a brain injury, in particular those physicians, nurses, therapists, family members, and friends for whom understanding the process and the possibilities for recovery is essential to helping rather than discouraging. This book is not about a state of disease or trauma as much as about the very real, very human struggle of one woman–and her amazing family–who simply would not give up.
Micky –
Coma/Traumatic Brain Injury is not something you would wish on anyone. Deborah Schlag has written a wonderful account of her experience of recovering from TBI. It would not be too much to require doctors to read her book as part of their education. I am glad she so graciously included her caregivers letters in her book as a brief way for people around her to express themselves. Deborah’s new spiritual mission of being a conduit for healing is a very fortunate outcome for everyone who has the opportunity to be with her. Thank you for sharing your story with us.
George Olson –
In her book, several important revelations are made. First, we see
how it is that brain injury can occur, and yet not be noticable as
brain injury (at first). Simply strange behavior or difficulty
concentrating….on and on. This progresses to a diagnosis of brain
injury and leads to (in her life, and in everyone’s around her)
considerable changes. We watch as doctors and therapists attempt to
deal with her condition–and we are shown how a supportive family can
help, tremendously, in the recovery process. I realized how many of
us do not have that support/understanding in our lives, and how
important that is. Finally we watch as she deals with the insurance
problem and it’s added difficulties in all of their lives.
My favorite part is when she is in Mexico, on vacation, and swimming
with the dolphins. The dolphins immediately recognize the problem she
is having and come to her aid! I highly recommend this book for all
these reasons.
Lee –
Your book is so well written and takes you on such a journey. Those who have experienced similar injuries surely must find this book enlightening. Loved it!!
Lee
Changing Times –
A very important book on brain injury healing-
This book should be read by all TBI survivors and carers. Not only is it packed full with helpful practical and spiritual information, and is incredibly inspirational, but it is written beautifully. As a long-time survivor myself I thought I knew just about everything to do with brain injury healing, but Deborah L. Schlag has taught me a few things. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The author has a way of pulling you into what’s happening, and that just made me want to keep reading. I fully recommend Becoming the Healer: The Miracle of Brain Injury.
Barb –
Hi Deborah
I am so excited for you! I got the electronic version of your book last week. I just finished it and then went back and ordered the the paperback version for clients. What an gut-wrenching, awe-inspiring story of personal recovery! I am so fortunate to have been a part in it. I am so excited to hear that your life has transformed so much since leaving Ohio. You are an inspiration not only for those with TBI but with any kind of personal tragedy that has left them paralyzed in some way. I will share the book’s info with the other healers here in Cincinnati as well. Again, congratulations on your recovery and expanded growth. You suffered and worked hard to reclaim it. Barb
Debi Pellar –
I received my second closed head injury in 2010. Since then I have carried a very small purse (primarily for my driver’s license) because the weight of a heavy purse will cause my neck and shoulders to spasm with shrieking pain.
However, over the past few days, I have been puzzled as to why my purse seems so heavy whenever I leave the house. I knew that nothing was in it (or so I thought) and so it never really occurred to me to look inside.
As I grabbed my purse this morning, I finally decided to look inside just out of curiosity …. what the heck could it be that is making this purse so much heavier than normal??? I was totally shocked to find Deborah Schlag’s book “Becoming the Healer — the Miracle of Brain Injury” inside. How humbled I was to take note of the fact that I was clinging to it like life support and did not even consciously do so.
No I don’t remember putting it in my purse, but yes it makes total sense to me now. Like a small child taking her fuzzy bunny to school as a source of comfort in a big, scary world.
I read hundreds of books each year and this book has single-handedly changed my life in so many ways it would simply be way too lengthy to write it all here.
Deborah has been very thorough in her documenting just exactly what goes on in the life of someone with a head injury. Prior to reading her book, I thought I was a pain in the ass. I thought I was being an irrational idiot for being unable to tolerate the sound of the refrigerator for example (hallelujah on page 55 … I now have peeps who understand this obsession!!! I am not alone!!!) I have been known to shut off the fridge and totally forget about it until it was too late and we have had to throw out a few hundred dollars worth of food several times over the past few years …. that type of behavior does not make one really popular with the person who is paying for those groceries let me tell you! However, there is a huge difference between recognizing that I did it out of an attempt at self-preservation vs. doing it because I am a flaky, bad wife that can’t seem to get her life together.
Exhaustion is huge for me. I have to pace myself with the tiniest of tasks … make the bed or wash the dishes? Walk the dog around the block or make dinner? Change the shower curtain liner or sweep up the dog hair? Never mind huge tasks like washing the windows … I have not done that in years as just thinking about it exhausts me. I am constantlybehind…andthereisnocatchingupinsight. Werarelyhave company because of all this.
And I have all too often hated myself because I used to think I was the very laziest wife on the planet yet today, after reading Deborah’s incredible book, I recognize that I have a head injury with physical and emotional side effects.
I am afraid of everything and, that too, makes life very interesting. And I am intolerant of so many things (from food to fragrances to florescent lights to people) that I can hardly keep track of it all. No Wifi in this house and no traveling either as hotels are blanketed with EMF fields. Everything seems to give me a headache some days. Yet again, I never questioned all this prior to Deborah’s book and mostly just tried to minimize life as much as possible in hopes of not triggering another migraine. But living so small does not suit me!
And let’s not even talk about sleep patterns (or the total lack of them).
All of these and much more are covered in Deborah’s book.
With all my heart, I miss the old me. The one that knew nothing about these disabilities. The one who was totally healthy and totally happy. The one that was a financial asset vs. a debilitating liability. Life with a closed head injury is very costly, mostly due to chronic unemployment. I never did apply for disability assistance as I kept thinking that I would be better “soon”. People with closed head injuries don’t make good decisions sometimes and that would be one of my very biggest regrets.
I definitely plan on reading Deborah’s book again … something I can’t ever remember doing before (unless it was a children’s story to my daughter.)
Did Deborah’s book heal my head injury? Not yet. But it has radically healed my heart and my own perception of my self and for that I am forever grateful.
I have over 800 books in my house and out of all of them, “Becoming the Healer” is the only one that I absolutely had to read. All the others were merely keeping me company until the Calvary arrived.
And the Calvary has arrived!
If you know anyone with a head injury, PLEASE read this book and please share it with others. Most of my friends have no clue how much agony and loneliness I have gone through personally and professionally due to my head injuries because I was not a vegetable or drooling all over myself. But I underlined over 1/3 of this book … it started out as Deborah’s story but virtually everything I underlined is my own story as well.
It takes a giant of a person to go through such trials and then be able to so professionally and so sincerely articulate such a profound document and I am 100% grateful that it found its way to me! It makes my eyes water and gives me goosebumps of gratitude actually.