Evolution of a Broken Heart is a book of poems and journal entries about a journey through desperation, deep depression, divorce, struggling to find God's purpose and living with God's grace. Valerio was married for twenty nine years, raising kids and supporting his family. A veteran of the US Navy submarine force, working for different exciting tech companies during the internet boom, he always had a ""good job,"" living in a nice house and driving nice cars. He was living the American Dream. He was a Christian man who attended church, a deacon, and went through the motions of success with a deep sense of emptiness on the inside. Something was missing in his life. God. If you have ever found yourself in the same situation, then this book is for you. Everyone has a chapter in their life they don't want to be read out loud. Here is his.
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
This book provides an overview of the history, manifestations, and treatment of heart disease and heart rhythm disorders. In addition, it covers the effects on the lives of patients, coping mechanisms, and relationships with doctors, family, religion, and death. The book uniquely intersects the fields of medicine, literature, science, and art. Chapters begin by familiarizing the reader with the historical aspects of manifestations and treatment – discussing both scientific and psychological aspects of the disease. Chapters also discuss the evolution of several treatment modalities. Every chapter of the book contains interesting and evocative patient stories and their treatment. Rhythms of Broken Hearts will be of interest to a wide spectrum of health care practitioners as well as to patients and related family members with interest in understanding their symptoms and disease entity. _____________________________________________________________________ In Rhythm of Broken Hearts, Dr. Gomes distills a multifaceted perspective with a unique story that knits history, physiology, emotion, and wisdom.Jonathan L. Halperin, M.D. If you ever have a broken heart -- romantic or medical -- you will be totally absorbed in this dazzling multicultural read. Grace Schulman Dr. Gomes’s affinity and empathy for his patients and their stories narrated in this book, make universal the experiences of illness that we all must navigate at some point in our lives.Jeremy N. Ruskin, MD
Winner of the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Five Books "Best Literary Science Writing" Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Best Science Book of 2022 • A Prospect Magazine Top Memoir of 2022 • A KCRW Life Examined Best Book of 2022 "Keen observer [and] deft writer" (David Quammen) Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much—and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Soon Williams finds herself on a surprising path that leads her from neurogenomic research laboratories to trying MDMA in a Portland therapist’s living room, from divorce workshops to the mountains and rivers that restore her. She tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks while looking at pictures of her ex, and discovers that our immune cells listen to loneliness. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she seeks out new relationships and ventures into the wilderness in search of an extraordinary antidote: awe. With warmth, daring, wit, and candor, Williams offers a gripping account of grief and healing. Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.
A history illustrating the complexity of medical decision making and risk. Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of those decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart attacks and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of cardiac surgery as depression, mental fog, and stroke. Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, especially when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? To answer this question, Jones explores the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical decision making. Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.
Featuring yoga as a curative path for the hurt caused by the loss of a partner either through death, separation, or divorce, this guidebook uses meditation and poses to help during or during this painful and difficult period. By focusing on the seven emotional stages of separation and articulating how to move from the first to the last, the healing energies in this book--from gentle warm-up poses through more active asanas to final relaxation and meditation--offer positive therapy to anyone who is or has been involved in this painful situation. The personal stories in the first part of the book provide comfort and a sense of community.
A heartbreak may take many forms: romantic breakup, widowhood, disappointment with one's child or one's parent, loss of friendship, loss of professional identity, loss of one's house, fortune, country... Anyone and anything we love can break the heart and transform us into a miserable beggar for love. None of the usual admonitions to let go, and none of the popular theories based on stages of mourning have succeeded in providing healing, because they fail to take into account what happens in the brain.
Healing a Broken Heart: A Proven Guide to Break Up Recovery for Men - How to Move On with Your Life After a Split & Get Back on the Dating Scene to Meet the One FASTER Breakups suck. How are you supposed to let go of that one person who you had planned your future with? But, no matter how painful it is to choose to go separate ways, sometimes it's the best solution. Even if you're well aware of this fact, it's not really consoling, isn't it? The same question remains unanswered: how do I move on with my life? Contrary to popular belief, men take breakups tougher than women do. If you're heartbroken, lost, and powerless because of a breakup, this powerful book will help you heal! While there's no magic formula to help you forget about the split, having healthy and strong coping mechanism in place will skyrocket your attempts at getting over your ex. That's where this book takes the scene! Would you like to: Discover a proven approach to dealing with breakups and build an awesome single life for yourself? Eliminate negative thinking and avoid depression but instead focus on improving and becoming the best version of yourself? Boost your self-confidence after a bad breakup and get back in the dating world stronger, better, and irresistible? Make your peace with the past and accept the breakup as the best think that could've happen to you? This unique break up book for men offers a helping hand with all this, and much more! Treating yourself correctly and with respect in the post-breakup period - whether the break up was your idea or you were on the receiving end - is crucial! Sure, you can leave it to time to heal your wounds, but wouldn't it be better to take charge of the healing process and be back on your feet faster? You're right, it is; and here's exactly how this life-changing book will help you! In The Bad Break Up Book For Men, you'll find support, guidance, and invaluable advice such as: How to handle your emotions with ease and be in charge of how you react to different situations; A specific recovery regime and how to effectively get over a breakup in no time; What to do when you cannot stop thinking about her, texting, calling, checking social media, driving by the house; An insider view into what women expect after a breakup and a better understanding of what causes women to leave men; Fundamental mistakes you might be making without knowing it and how to avoid them in the future; Eliminate feelings of "neediness" and build an awesome single life for yourself and become a man that women constantly describe as their "ideal man"; How to eliminate negative thinking and reprogram your mind; The main reasons why we feel negative emotional states, and how to influence them almost instantly; How to get your confidence back and attracts new, better women; Mistakes that can make a breakup worse and what to do instead; How to let go of false hope you'll get back with her and move on; And more! As hopeless as you may feel right now, this book will prove to you that there's a light at the end of the tunnel! Based on over a decade of research and practice combined with feedback from hundreds of men, The Bad Break Up Book For Men will free you from pain and suffering. This stage of your life will pass. But, not unless you stop moping around and start the healing process today. You will get better. At some point, you'll laugh again. Soon enough, you'll start dating. Break up recovery is possible; this extraordinary book shows you how to move on with your life in almost no time! Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-click", and Get Your Copy Now!
This book provides comprehensive insights into congenital heart disease from embryonic development through to clinical features, including human genetics and our current knowledge of the underlying molecular pathways. It is divided into three parts: an introduction to the development of the heart and its vessels, an overview of the molecular pathways affecting the development of various cardiovascular structures, and a main section focusing on the different types of structural and nonstructural congenital heart diseases, including their clinical features, underlying genetic alterations and related animal models and pathways. Taken together these chapters, which were written by and for clinicians and researchers, provide an integrated and cutting-edge resource for all those who want to learn more about both the clinical aspects and the genetic and molecular basis of congenital heart disease.
The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.
