Unexpected Recoveries: Seven Steps to Healing Body, Mind, & Soul When Serious Illness Strikes - Softcover

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A national best-selling writer, counselor, and teacher of natural healing methods, Tom Monte is a leading voice in the natural health movement. He has written and co-authored more than thirty books and many hundreds of articles on virtually every area of health. Among his bestsellers are Recalled by Life, Living Well Naturally, and Natural Prozac. Tom has lectured and conducted transformational programs throughout the United States and around the world. His eight-month Healer's Program, based in New York City and Orval, Belgium, trains practitioners in the useof highly effective natural methods for healing body, mind, and spirit. The Healer's Program is also an experience in personal transformation. Tom also conducts workshops that focus on healing the heart and personal relationships.He lives with his wife, Toby, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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A Note to Caregivers

Each of us is plunged into his or her own private crisis whenever a loved one or dear friend is stricken with a serious illness. Driven by love, fear, and an overwhelming desire to help, caregivers will often spring into action, forgetting their own needs and limitations. Despite the best of intentions, a caregiver’s self-sacrifice can to lead to exhaustion, anger, and conflict—not to mention poor health.

If you are a caregiver to someone who is ill, please consider adopting your own version of the seven steps described in this book. They can help you find rest so that you may have the strength to live more fully; care so that you can go on providing care; love so that you can go on loving; faith so that you can sustain hope; and strength of purpose so that you can find meaning in the challenges you are facing. Giving cannot be sustained without balance, meaning that those who give must also receive, and those who serve must also be served. Balance is the foundation of health and the consequence of love.

Please consider participating with your loved one as he or she utilizes the seven steps to restore his or her health by adopting your own version of this healing program. The program can be yet another act of love—a gift you give to your loved one as well as to yourself.

Acknowledgments

This book is the culmination of more than thirty years of writing about health and healing. Although it would be impossible to thank all the people who contributed to my understanding of these infinite mysteries, I would like to mention a handful of individuals.

I would like to express my overflowing gratitude to my great mentors, Michio and Aveline Kushi, and Nathan and Ilene Pritikin, who gave me a foundation for understanding health and healing from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Still under-appreciated, these four great teachers have provided countless millions of people with a path for better health and personal transformation.

I would like to thank some of my friends and teachers who have contributed to my work over the years, including Luc DeCuyper, Denny Waxman, Michael Rossoff, Bill Tims, Robert Pritikin, Mary Burmeister, Herman and Cornelia Aihara, Wim Mestdagh, John McDougall, Michael Jacobson, and Anthony Sattilaro.

My gratitude goes out to the many hundreds of people who have shared their stories of recovery with me over the past thirty-plus years, and the healers with whom I have worked. Not all of you appear in this book, but all of you contributed to it.

My sincerest thanks go out to Ken and Sherry Courage, Peter and Maryla Wallace, and Phiya Kushi, who also supported this work. I would like to thank my wonderful friend and publisher, Rudy Shur; my editor, Michael Weatherhead; and the rest of the team at Square One Publishers for their tremendous talent, dedication, and commitment to releasing this book.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Toby, who wrote the recipes and menus for this book, and who has acted as the foundation of health and happiness for me and our entire family for forty years.