An uplifting look at the neuroplasticity of our brains and our human ability to grow and change
Alison Bonds Shapiro suffered two debilitating and nearly fatal strokes in her fifties. Healing into Possibility chronicles her experience of learning, through trial and error, that her attitude would play the most important role in her remarkable recovery. In this touching book, Shapiro teaches simple principles that anyone can use when faced with illness, injury, or any other seemingly insurmountable problem to transform despair into hope and dead ends into possibilities. In this touching book, Alison Bonds Shapiro teaches simple principles that anyone can use when faced with illness, injury, or any other seemingly insurmountable problem to transform into possibilities. Alison Bonds Shapiro works with stroke survivors and their families, provides motivational speaking for rehabilitation patients and their care networks in numerous locations including a leading HMO in Northern California, and is an advisor to a nonprofit dedicated to stroke survivors. She is also a highly regarded business consultant and transformational coach and leads the board of trustees of a graduate school in San Francisco. Alison lives, works, and paints in her home in the woods on Mt. Tamalpais outside of San Francisco, which she shares with her brother, Jeff, her cat, Sam, and the love and laughter of the frequent visits of her sons and grandsons. Visit her on the Web at www.alisonbshapiro.com. "A night-light for times of darkness and loss, enabling us each to find our own way home to our wholeness and the rest of our lives."
