No Pressure No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss

How do you define hope and healing when faced with an early death?At 35 and newly married psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Teri Dillion had tidy answers on offer for creating a meaningful and beautiful life. But once diagnosed with Lou Gehrigs disease (ALS) and told to get her affairs in order before facing total paralysis and death she finds all smug psychology and easy equanimity no match for her new harrowing prognosis. With a humorous exploration of the current landscapes of alternative medicine and self-help No Pressure No Diamonds recounts Teris powerful journey while shedding light on the fragile blessings of embodiment in general. As she grows increasingly disillusioned with toxic positivity and bypassing spiritual gurus in her determined pursuit of a miraculous cure shes forced to examine her deepest beliefs and define her own faith about hope and healing.Inspiring entertaining and deeply moving this memoir will resonate with anyone forced to grapple with chronic or terminal illness. Teris story teaches us how the most brilliant jewels of meaning and resilience can be found not in conventional narratives of triumphant recovery but in what we painstakingly and lovingly carve for ourselves out of lifes roughest blows.