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About The Book
For more than three decades, Tom Monte has been a leading writer, teacher, and counselor within the natural healing community. As a national best-selling author, he has helped bring to the public’s attention the work of many cutting-edge doctors, medical researchers, and scientists. As a teacher and counselor in the use of natural healing methods, he has worked with thousands of individuals and families who were seeking to overcome serious illnesses or other life-altering crises. During the course of his work, he has witnessed and written about many “miraculous” recoveries. As inscrutable as these recoveries may have seemed, Tom began to recognize common factors among those who overcame serious illness. Based on medical research, the insightful work of others, his own work, and the experiences of patients who managed to reverse their own devastating health conditions, Tom has written an inspiring guide for those who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illness. Unexpected Recoveriesis the culmination of a lifetime of work designed to offer hope, purpose, and—most important—a proactive plan.
This book combines modern medical know-how, ancient healing practices, and a healing diet to provide a comprehensive and practical guidebook for physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery. It takes aim at such conditions as cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, chronic pain, Crohn’s disease, degenerative bone conditions, and more. Readers are provided with a seven-step program to help them on their journey of healing, with each and every step designed to be flexible. Factors such as mental attitude, lifestyle, diet, and exercise are discussed in an informative and easy-to-read manner. Along this journey, readers are introduced to twelve people who have recovered from incurable illness. Also included are a helpful resource section, a twenty-one-day menu planner, and over sixty kitchen-tested recipes.
When a doctor tells a patient there is no cure, what the doctor is essentially saying is that there is no treatment proven to eliminate the condition. This doesn’t mean that healing isn’t possible. If you or a loved one is suffering from a severe illness, Unexpected Recoveriescan be a powerful tool to change the course of that condition.
This book combines modern medical know-how, ancient healing practices, and a healing diet to provide a comprehensive and practical guidebook for physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery. It takes aim at such conditions as cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, chronic pain, Crohn’s disease, degenerative bone conditions, and more. Readers are provided with a seven-step program to help them on their journey of healing, with each and every step designed to be flexible. Factors such as mental attitude, lifestyle, diet, and exercise are discussed in an informative and easy-to-read manner. Along this journey, readers are introduced to twelve people who have recovered from incurable illness. Also included are a helpful resource section, a twenty-one-day menu planner, and over sixty kitchen-tested recipes.
When a doctor tells a patient there is no cure, what the doctor is essentially saying is that there is no treatment proven to eliminate the condition. This doesn’t mean that healing isn’t possible. If you or a loved one is suffering from a severe illness, Unexpected Recoveriescan be a powerful tool to change the course of that condition.
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Acknowledgments
This book is the culmination of more than thirty years of writing about health and healing. Although it would be impossible to thank all the people who contributed to my understanding of these infinite mysteries, I would like to mention a handful of individuals.
I would like to express my overflowing gratitude to my great mentors, Michio and Aveline Kushi, and Nathan and Ilene Pritikin, who gave me a foundation for understanding health and healing from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Still under-appreciated, these four great teachers have provided countless millions of people with a path for better health and personal transformation.
I would like to thank some of my friends and teachers who have contributed to my work over the years, including Luc DeCuyper, Denny Waxman, Michael Rossoff, Bill Tims, Robert Pritikin, Mary Burmeister, Herman and Cornelia Aihara, Wim Mestdagh, John McDougall, Michael Jacobson, and Anthony Sattilaro.
My gratitude goes out to the many hundreds of people who have shared their stories of recovery with me over the past thirty-plus years, and the healers with whom I have worked. Not all of you appear in this book, but all of you contributed to it.
My sincerest thanks go out to Ken and Sherry Courage, Peter and Maryla Wallace, and Phiya Kushi, who also supported this work. I would like to thank my wonderful friend and publisher, Rudy Shur; my editor, Michael Weatherhead; and the rest of the team at Square One Publishers for their tremendous talent, dedication, and commitment to releasing this book.
Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Toby, who wrote the recipes and menus for this book, and who has acted as the foundation of health and happiness for me and our entire family for forty years.
This book is the culmination of more than thirty years of writing about health and healing. Although it would be impossible to thank all the people who contributed to my understanding of these infinite mysteries, I would like to mention a handful of individuals.
I would like to express my overflowing gratitude to my great mentors, Michio and Aveline Kushi, and Nathan and Ilene Pritikin, who gave me a foundation for understanding health and healing from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Still under-appreciated, these four great teachers have provided countless millions of people with a path for better health and personal transformation.
I would like to thank some of my friends and teachers who have contributed to my work over the years, including Luc DeCuyper, Denny Waxman, Michael Rossoff, Bill Tims, Robert Pritikin, Mary Burmeister, Herman and Cornelia Aihara, Wim Mestdagh, John McDougall, Michael Jacobson, and Anthony Sattilaro.
My gratitude goes out to the many hundreds of people who have shared their stories of recovery with me over the past thirty-plus years, and the healers with whom I have worked. Not all of you appear in this book, but all of you contributed to it.
My sincerest thanks go out to Ken and Sherry Courage, Peter and Maryla Wallace, and Phiya Kushi, who also supported this work. I would like to thank my wonderful friend and publisher, Rudy Shur; my editor, Michael Weatherhead; and the rest of the team at Square One Publishers for their tremendous talent, dedication, and commitment to releasing this book.
Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Toby, who wrote the recipes and menus for this book, and who has acted as the foundation of health and happiness for me and our entire family for forty years.
Product Details
- Publisher: Square One (March 2, 2017)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9780757054006
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Raves and Reviews
"Monte, a prolific author on 'health, healing, and personal transformation,' delivers encouragement to readers struggling with serious illness . . . Monte continuously offers simple and manageable ways to incorporate change into one’s daily routine (e.g., three 10-minute exercises) and includes a daily meal schedule and menu plans with supporting recipes . . . The easy-to-follow format, combined with compelling and dramatic patient recovery stories, makes for an appealing read."
– Publishers Weekly
"Sometimes it's cancer. Sometimes it's dementia, or heart failure, or ALS, or any of another dozen serious, life-scrambling illnesses. But now that your worst fears have been confirmed where do you go from here? . . . Sometimes, despite the direst of diagnoses, people do step back from the brink . . . [author Tom] Monte says that those who do recover from life-threatening illnesses tend to follow a seven-step process: getting past fear, taking back their power, adopting a mostly plant-based diet, establishing a strong support system, making a commitment to healing and to life, developing a strong fait and finding a life purpose. Each step gets a chapter in UnexpectedRecoveries . . . if [Monte's book] simply help[s] someone feel better physically and emotionally, it's hard to argue with the idea of adopting these healing practices."
– Lisa James, Energy Times
"Especially commended to the attention of patients whose doctors told them there is no cure, no treatment proven to eliminate their particular condition . . . Unexpected Recoveries can be a powerful tool to change the course of their medical condition. Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, Unexpected Recoveries is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library Health/Medicine collections."
– "Cowper's Bookshelf", MBR Bookwatch
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