The Nervous System Grimoire Quotes

“The way disabled people love is one of our superpowers. So is our capacity for grief.”
― River Marshall, The Nervous System Grimoire: Spells for Dysautonomia: A Clinical Herbalist's Whimsical Guide to POTS, MCAS, hEDS and Living with Chronic Illness

“The magic isn't in following the spells exactly as written. The magic is in learning to cast them for yourself.”
― River Marshall, The Nervous System Grimoire: Spells for Dysautonomia: A Clinical Herbalist's Whimsical Guide to POTS, MCAS, hEDS and Living with Chronic Illness

“I wrote this book for the person I was when my life quietly burned down to ashes, stuck at home in bed with no one but my family to witness. And for the person I grew into as I rebuilt it. If you're newly diagnosed, or trying to untangle the knotted complexity of your dysautonomia, I wrote this for you, too. It contains the best of my clinical skills and all the wisdom I gleaned from learning how to live in my own disabled body. It also contains all my hope and determination for both of us and the belief that we can be chronically ill and have beautiful, livable lives.”
― River Marshall, The Nervous System Grimoire: Spells for Dysautonomia: A Clinical Herbalist's Whimsical Guide to POTS, MCAS, hEDS and Living with Chronic Illness