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Every Morning So Far I'm Alive
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Every Morning So Far I'm Alive is a poignant memoir that captures the heart-wrenching journey of Wendy Parkins as she navigates the overwhelming challenges of adjusting to life after moving from New Zealand to England. This deeply personal narrative delves into the author’s struggles with depression, OCD, and contamination phobia that arose from her experience of homesickness and career burnout. Parkins shares her fiercely honest reflections on the fear associated with everyday interactions—shaking hands, catching taxis, or touching door handles—while vividly portraying the quest for belonging and the meaning of home in a world that often feels daunting.
Each page of this beautifully crafted book offers insights into the process of recovery, illustrating the ups and downs of re-establishing connections with family, work, nature, and literature. With a blend of self-deprecating humor and emotional depth, Every Morning So Far I’m Alive invites readers to grapple with life’s uncertainties and claims the right to narrate one’s own story. This memoir is a must-read for anyone searching for hope and resilience amidst life’s chaos. Perfect for fans of personal transformation stories and those who appreciate reflective literature. Experience the journey of rediscovering oneself and the importance of embracing the unpredictability of life’s path.
Author: Wendy Parkins Publisher: Otago University Press
Bind: paperback
Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
Pages: 220
Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about what it’s like to live in a world where shaking a stranger’s hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread. This memoir charts the author’s breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begins as homesickness and career burn-out develops into depression, contamination phobia and OCD. Increasingly alienated from all the things that previously gave her life meaning and purpose - family, work, nature, literature - the author is forced to confront a question once posed by the young Virginia Woolf: â€How is one to live in such a world?’ In this fiercely honest memoir Wendy Parkins, a former English professor, explores what it means to belong and feel at home, and how we are shaped by our first environments, both familial and physical. Describing the gradual process of recovery - as well as its reversals - it shows that returning to health can be about rediscovering how we came to be who we are, without becoming trapped by our narratives of origin. Like coming home, recovery is never quite what we expect it to be, however much we long for it. Beautifully written, intensely moving and threaded with self-deprecating humour, Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about claiming the right to tell our own story and learning to embrace the risks that the messy unpredictability of life always entails.
Each page of this beautifully crafted book offers insights into the process of recovery, illustrating the ups and downs of re-establishing connections with family, work, nature, and literature. With a blend of self-deprecating humor and emotional depth, Every Morning So Far I’m Alive invites readers to grapple with life’s uncertainties and claims the right to narrate one’s own story. This memoir is a must-read for anyone searching for hope and resilience amidst life’s chaos. Perfect for fans of personal transformation stories and those who appreciate reflective literature. Experience the journey of rediscovering oneself and the importance of embracing the unpredictability of life’s path.
Author: Wendy Parkins Publisher: Otago University Press
Bind: paperback
Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
Pages: 220
Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about what it’s like to live in a world where shaking a stranger’s hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread. This memoir charts the author’s breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begins as homesickness and career burn-out develops into depression, contamination phobia and OCD. Increasingly alienated from all the things that previously gave her life meaning and purpose - family, work, nature, literature - the author is forced to confront a question once posed by the young Virginia Woolf: â€How is one to live in such a world?’ In this fiercely honest memoir Wendy Parkins, a former English professor, explores what it means to belong and feel at home, and how we are shaped by our first environments, both familial and physical. Describing the gradual process of recovery - as well as its reversals - it shows that returning to health can be about rediscovering how we came to be who we are, without becoming trapped by our narratives of origin. Like coming home, recovery is never quite what we expect it to be, however much we long for it. Beautifully written, intensely moving and threaded with self-deprecating humour, Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about claiming the right to tell our own story and learning to embrace the risks that the messy unpredictability of life always entails.
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