Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

✍ Scribed by Sanford, Matthew

• Book ID: 110001213
• Publisher: Rodale
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 825 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781594863028

✦ Synopsis

Matthew Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 when his family's car skidded off a snowy Iowa overpass, killing Matt's father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. This pivotal event set Matt on a lifelong journey, from his intensive care experiences at the Mayo Clinic to becoming a paralyzed yoga teacher and founder of a nonprofit organization. Forced to explore what it truly means to live in a body, he emerges with an entirely new view of being a "whole" person. In Waking --his searingly candid memoir--Sanford delivers a powerful message about the endurance of the human spirit and of the body that houses it.