"This book believes in resilience and it also emphasizes faith in God, spirituality, nature, art, and music, elements that all contribute to recovery. It is a book worth reading whether or not one has experienced mental illness."
— Dr. Mary V. Seeman, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto "This book offers messages of recovery that have never been more needed or more welcome. Caroline's generosity of spirit in crafting and offering these hope-filled stories is much appreciated during this difficult time."
— Professor Larry Davidson, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Program for Recovery and Community Health, School of Medicine, Yale University "This collection of stories has the capacity to do what all good narrative can. It creates pictures and stimulates reflection. The pictures describe a full spectrum of human experience, centred around the theme of the experience of mental illness. They describe how that can also be an experience of recovery and self-discovery. Caroline Kwok draws on her own lived experience. She has been able to transpose that experience into a set of diverse characters that anyone can related to. Her writing is down to earth, moving and purposeful. It should be no surprise that this volume is not only about recovery, it is recovery itself; part of that organic and never-ending journey for the author herself."
— John Klukach, MD, FRCP
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Psychiatrist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Canada |
