BOOKS | Lupus Novice
Station Hill Press, 1987, expanded edition 1999
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Lupus Novice
Towards Self-Healing
“This is truly a fascinating book that I recommend to all our lupus patients. An outstanding book about love, compassion, determination, self-actualization and witnessing to all those who suffer from lupus.”
—Wesley V. Kikuchi, Endorsed by the Institute of Anti-Aging and Longevity
This “exceptional patient” reverses the expectations of current medical opinion… This intimate self-portrait is not only a personal mythology but a story of transformation. “Laura’s book deserves to be read by all those dealing with illness … Instead of ‘Why me?’ she shows us how to say, ‘Try me!’”
—Bernie S. Siegel, author of Love, Medicine & Miracles
Recommended by Andrew Weil in Natural Health, Natural Medicine, Lupus Novice gives a moving account of the author’s successful struggle with “incurable” SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), affecting mostly women. Ms. Chester shares the personal discoveries behind her recovery, and a meditation on what it means for a body to be “attacking itself.”
“This is truly a fascinating book that I recommend to all our lupus patients. An outstanding book about love, compassion, determination, self-actualization and witnessing to all those who suffer from lupus.”
—Wesley V. Kikuchi, Endorsed by the Institute of Anti-Aging and Longevity
“Laura Chester has written a moving and significant book. On one level, she discusses her personal odyssey through the realm of a serious and inexplicable disease—its history, current cultural status, biology, symbolism and the doctors of all persuasions who attempt to cure it. On another level, she speaks to the esoteric level of the disease, discussing the initiation into a deeper level of self and a journey through the unconscious and archetypal aspects of nature. On this level she is an artist more than a patient, an individual who has the power to affect her cure, in part, through her own creative resources. The book is not only a personal mythology but the transformation of a novice into healer.”
—Richard Grossinger, author of Planet Medicine