I decided at the beginning of this year to start a book club for Recovery Daily Podcast. The book club is cleverly called “Reads and Recovery". Each month, I choose a book that resonates with themes of recovery, self-discovery, and personal resilience. Each aims to inspire, challenge, and accompany us through healing. I used to joke with my friends that I was the only one in the book club, but apparently there are some other folks reading along which is exciting! “If you build it, they will come.” 🤓

Today's Reads and Recovery episode reviews the book "An Anthropologist on Mars" by Oliver Sacks, author and neurologist. Sacks profiles seven individuals facing extraordinary neurological conditions, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, an artist who loses his ability to see color, and a man who temporarily regains partial vision after decades of blindness. The compilation of case studies challenges our understanding of what it means to be normal and how one can thrive. even in the face of adversity.

The book gave me a new perspective on adapting and even embracing my disability. Sacks encourages us to look at the whole person behind the disability. My disability doesn't have to limit me; instead, it is just revealing a new way to experience the world.

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