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Life-Altering Injury books

Below are the best books we could find on Life-Altering Injury.

When we receive a significant injury, sometimes we have to put our life on pause for a few weeks or months while our body recovers. But sometimes recovery takes longer—or never gets us back to “normal” at all. Whether we suffer from a loss of mobility, a change to our sensory perceptions, an inability to sleep or breathe well, chronic persistence of pain, or even memory or personality changes, our sense of self, identity, and purpose can all be challenged. Our ability to move through previously comfortable spaces or interact with others can be suddenly limited, and how we’re perceived by others can drastically change overnight. Transitioning to a “new normal”—and discovering what it even looks like—can be scary and discouraging, but we are immensely adaptable and capable, with care and compassion, of recentering ourselves and moving forward.

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Rebuilding Sergeant Peck: How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan

Marine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years later, one that left him with three and a half limbs missing.

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After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families

Two experts from the VA National Center for PTSD provide an essential resource for service members, their spouses, families, and communities, sharing what troops really experience during deployment and back home.

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Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges

Most of us at some point in our lives will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, assault, or a natural disaster. Resilience refers to the ability to ‘bounce back’ after encountering difficulty.

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Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay

Nobody’s baseball story is like Roy Halladay’s. He was born and raised to be a superstar. He was a first-round draft pick in 1995. He nearly threw a no-hitter in his second big-league start in 1998.

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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal―Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation

Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war—the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs.

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When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness

Chronic illness may feel like an impassible barrier, but it can become the doorway to a new and more creative existence. Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo, and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the many artists whose physical disorders enhanced their creativity and transformed their lives.

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Letters to a Young Athlete

A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sports Chris Bosh, NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the league’s Global...

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A Leg to Stand On

Dr. Oliver Sacks’s books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders.

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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter’s Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

On the morning of December 22, 2005, Matt Long was cycling to work in the early morning when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of his life.

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