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No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss
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Product Description How do you find real-deal, platitude-free hope and healing in the face of death? At 35 and newly married, thriving psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Teri Dillion had plenty of tidy answers on offer for creating a meaningful and beautiful life. But once diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and told to get her affairs in order before facing total paralysis, she finds all smug psychology and easy equanimity no match for her harrowing new prognosis. With a humorous and nuanced exploration of the colorful landscapes of alternative medicine and self-help culture, No Pressure, No Diamonds recounts Teri’s powerful healing journey while shining a light on the fragile blessings of embodiment in general. As she grows disillusioned with toxic positivity and bypassing spiritual gurus in her determined pursuit of a miraculous cure, she’s forced to define her own deepest beliefs about hope, meaning-making, and healing. Inspiring, entertaining, and deeply moving, this memoir will resonate with anyone forced to grapple with chronic or terminal illness. Teri’s 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 life’s roughest blows. Review "Teri Dillion's No Pressure, No Diamonds confronts the reader with a searching, well-written, and honest summons to remember both the fragility of the body and the tenacity of the soul. Through her personal inquiry, she asks each of us to consider how much we may ignore our final appointment with mortality and yet what we are called to develop whenever it makes its appearance. At "mid-life" she is at the end of life and offers to each reader the gift of Persephone's wisdom: someone who moves between worlds and brings messages from both. Her work is a gift to us." -- James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst and author of Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times "In the form of this beautifully written, always loving and honest, sometimes humorous account of her soul's journey with serious illness, deeply informed by her Buddhist practice and body-informed archetypal therapy, Teri Dillion teaches by example and has given us a gift that will outlive her body. Moving and compelling for anyone who leaves the ranks of the 'temporarily immortal.'" -- Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door and The Art of Dying "This book is for every human. Dillion teaches us what true grace looks like when 'reality calls' and it's not what we wanted. Tragic, yet surprisingly light-hearted, this book is beautifully written--something we can all learn from." -- Amy B. Scher, author of This Is How I Save My Life "As I read the first words of No Pressure, No Diamonds, I felt like Teri Dillion had reached into my chest and grabbed my heart. 'Here,' she seemed to say, 'this is where it matters.' I was utterly tenderized before finishing the first page. Sharing both her humor and her pain, Teri suggests no easy answers, but instead offers a pathway that may lead to being truly human. This is the real deal: a treasure that humbles, inspires, strengthens, and perhaps even awakens the reader." -- Karen Kissel Wegela, PhD, LP, author of Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials: Enriching Your Practice with Buddhist Psychology "This book is a gift. Teri continues to serve as a therapist, spiritual seeker, and truth teller as she shares what it was like to come to terms with a shocking and debilitating terminal illness. Laying bare her own humanity, it felt as though I was being given an opportunity to deeply experience my own. Exposing her longing for an ever-elevated life, coupled with a belief it would always be available, Teri drills down to her own heart. She takes us inward, inviting personal reflections about life's purpose and meaning. This book offers everything you hope a memoir mi
