Amy B. Scher's Blog
June 18, 2018
Keep Showing UP
Sometimes I'm asked what's the most important thing I did to save my life. This is it:
"Keep showing up. I remember all the times I thought, I cannot do this even one more day. Then I’d go to sleep and wake up the next day with the same stuff to trek through. To paraphrase Ram Dass, one of my spiritual teachers, “You have to take it all as necessary steps and proceed.” You have to allow yourself the meltdowns, the misery, and the acknowledgment of the vast pain in any sickness journey. Always find a way to keep showing up for yourself, because you never know when your healing will arrive. Often when you feel like you’re miles from where you want to be, you’re just around the corner."
(from Los Angeles Review of Books interview)
"Keep showing up. I remember all the times I thought, I cannot do this even one more day. Then I’d go to sleep and wake up the next day with the same stuff to trek through. To paraphrase Ram Dass, one of my spiritual teachers, “You have to take it all as necessary steps and proceed.” You have to allow yourself the meltdowns, the misery, and the acknowledgment of the vast pain in any sickness journey. Always find a way to keep showing up for yourself, because you never know when your healing will arrive. Often when you feel like you’re miles from where you want to be, you’re just around the corner."
(from Los Angeles Review of Books interview)
A Woman's Journey to Truth and Health
Thank you to Best Self Magazine for helping me share my journey.
"I needed India. It was maybe the first thing that I ever really knew. I felt this in my bones, although it made zero sense and I wasn’t even sure, in the delicate state I was in, I would survive the treacherous 20+ hour flight. I only set my mind on a singular mission: to go get the cure in India so I could come home and get on with the rest of my life. This was Life or Death, not Eat, Pray, Love. I couldn’t hear the Universe laughing in my face back then, but I am sure now that it was. I am pretty sure that my body knew there was a much greater plan in store for me."
To read the article: bestselfmedia.com
"I needed India. It was maybe the first thing that I ever really knew. I felt this in my bones, although it made zero sense and I wasn’t even sure, in the delicate state I was in, I would survive the treacherous 20+ hour flight. I only set my mind on a singular mission: to go get the cure in India so I could come home and get on with the rest of my life. This was Life or Death, not Eat, Pray, Love. I couldn’t hear the Universe laughing in my face back then, but I am sure now that it was. I am pretty sure that my body knew there was a much greater plan in store for me."
To read the article: bestselfmedia.com
13 Most Powerful Memoirs
I am blown away that THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE is included in this fabulous list of the 13 Most Powerful Memoirs.
Here's one of my fav paragraphs from it:
"I do not have all the answers to who I am today, in these precious slivers of time. In fact, I am not even entirely aware how precious they are. But one thing is undeniably true: I am no longer willing to be the girl who holds on so tight that she breaks her own spirit to do it. Let go. Let go. Let go."
See Off The Shelf's full list here
Here's one of my fav paragraphs from it:
"I do not have all the answers to who I am today, in these precious slivers of time. In fact, I am not even entirely aware how precious they are. But one thing is undeniably true: I am no longer willing to be the girl who holds on so tight that she breaks her own spirit to do it. Let go. Let go. Let go."
See Off The Shelf's full list here
What Was My Cure?
"What was THE cure?" This is a question I get asked all of the time after healing from Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, and more. I knew I owed it to my readers to give them an answer in THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE. But it was a hard thing to figure out myself, and then explain.
The long story of how I truly saved my life can only be found in the pages, but I reveal the gist of it here during our last book club discussion. Join us to chat about Chapter 9 from THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE <3
See more here: video book club
The long story of how I truly saved my life can only be found in the pages, but I reveal the gist of it here during our last book club discussion. Join us to chat about Chapter 9 from THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE <3
See more here: video book club
