Journeys in Healing

Journeys in Healing takes us into the lives of eight people who have suffered life-altering illness or disability. In discovering how each of them has dealt with their condition, we learn not only how they have found something positive in adversity, but also how the process of healing can work in the face of even the greatest challenges. The people interviewed here have experienced a range of afflictions, among them asthma, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and physical disabilities. Their remarkable journeys contain profound lessons for those suffering from any illness – including cancer, stroke and heart attack – and help us appreciate how we can influence the process of our own healing. Dr Shaun Matthews, an Australian medical practitioner who has also studied various forms of complementary medicine, draws on these people’s experiences to argue that illness can create the opportunity for profound learning, and can help us become more whole as human beings. Indeed, Dr Matthews shares his own journey of healing after a serious illness that had confounded medical diagnosis. Journeys in Healing presents empowering and inspiring messages for all sufferers of disease and disability, and demonstrates the nterconnectedness between physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

‘The questions with which Shaun prompts the interviewees could well provide a model for doctors interested in learning how to draw out a person’s story … These human stories, prompted by a caring, sensitive doctor, make compelling, inspiring and instructive reading. Read this book and feel your heart being warmed.’  Dr Ian Gawler, OAM, author of Peace of Mind and You Can Conquer Cancer.
 
 
‘There is so much that we orthodox practitioners do not know and, too often, we seem not to care about the people who come to us. The people in this book have been active participants in their own recovery, outside orthodox medicine … it is a book that all orthodox practitioners should read and think about.’  Prof. Peter Baume, AO Contenst.