Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

by Suleika Jaouad

To be well now is to learn to accept whatever body and mind I currently have.

THE WAY WE heal does not always look like healing.

There’s the first trip of preparation and anticipation, packing and daydreaming. There’s the trip you’re actually on. And then, there’s the trip you remember. “The key is to try to keep all three as separate as possible,” he says. “The key is to be present wherever you are right now.”

The power of story is to heal and to sustain, she wrote. And if we are brave

enough to tell our own story, we realize we’re not alone, again and again.