Dancing with Elephants

Mindfulness Training for Those Living with Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

By: Jarem Sawatsky

Narrated by: Jarem Sawatsky

Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Diagnosed with a disease that can't be reversed? Learn how to keep living life to the fullest.

Have you received a terminal or chronic diagnosis? Is your mind succumbing to age or illness? Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging conditions? The answer is a resounding yes.

Author Jarem Sawatsky saw the countless guides out there for those caring for the ill and healing the curable, but when he was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease he found there was nothing for those living with incurable illness. He quit his job as a professor and devoted his life to exploring the possibilities of living with chronic conditions. Now he's bringing his findings and insights to you.

In Dancing with Elephants, you'll discover:

• Simple practices to bring healing to your heart and life to your new outlook
• Humorous (and occasionally heart-wrenching) stories of Sawatsky's own journey
• Multiple ways to build confidence in yourself, even when you've been shaken to the core
• A new perspective to cut some of the pain and renew your spirit
• Practical tools to face your seemingly inescapable fears, and much, much more!

Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dancing with Elephants includes insightful interviews with chronic disease experts Toni Bernhard, Lucy Kalanithi, and Patch Adams. Sawatsky's landmark book provides support that only a fellow traveler down this road can offer. If you like touching stories, mindful wisdom, and a touch of irreverent humor, then you'll love Sawatsky's life-changing book.

Buy Dancing with Elephants today to discover a new way to live!

©2017 Jarem Sawaky (P)2017 Jarem Sawaky

Deeply touching

Jerem's gift of insite in this wonderful book will touch you deeply. Suffering and uncertainty are not so dark with lights like this book. There is human dignity between these pages. Hope too.

Inspiring!

An amazingly uplifting guide to living with intention, gratitude, and joy with chronic illness. The personal and pertinent life examples and the myriad of meaningful mindfulness practices engender hope, inspiration and a proactive approach to living as fully as possible, even in the face of a dire health diagnosis.

Fabulous

I am a general internist who has worked with her patients on Mindfulness as well as death and dying and living with chronic disease. This is a wonderful, at times painfully honest story which I plan to recommend to my groups

Un libro para todos

Es un libro no sólo para personas con alguna enfermedad. Es para cualquiera que quiera ser más feliz.

Thought provoking

As a geriatric care provider I wanted to read this to gain insight to my patients living with dementia and chronic disease. More insightful than I anticipated. Enjoyed his description of planning. Will recommend to patients and families.

Dancing with Elephants by Jaren Sawatsky

I enjoyed reading this book . As a chaplain with 20+ years experience in ministering to those with chronic illness I found Mr Sawatsky's reflections and advice concerning how one can grow in acceptance of a disease that will result in one's death to be profoundly spiritual and wise. I recommend that anyone serving persons who are chronically ill read this insightful book.

Good life planning

Really enjoyed this book that was recommended when searching dementia topics. Good life planning advice.

Everyone should read this

This book is the best book I have ever read. I thank anyone can read this book. It is extremely informal and not a dry read.

A Unique Perspective on Living Life Well

This book by Jared Sawstsky is narrated by the author. He is a member of a family that carries the gene for Huntington’s Disease, in which members may learn as they age that they have inherited the gradually debilitating disease.
Jared is the perfect narrator, for his life has included many different opportunities to look at life in a variety of living situations. He has also gone to the trouble of either seeking out people he most admires, or if unable to meet them, he has gone to great lengths to learn about what these people thought, how they lived, and what they taught or left behind as their philosophies.
Mr Sawatsky speaks clearly and slowly, giving the listener along the way many of Mr Sawatsky’s own personal beliefs in how to live a happier life, no matter what one finds as they move along their journey through life. I particularly like the idea that one can choose to be happy, no matter what their life circumstances may be.

Worth a second listen

There were lots of words for thought and it also introduced other writers and books to look into. As someone who enjoys book reviews almost as much as books, I liked this aspect of the book. It was interestingly, given the subject matter, not at all sad. My only slight complaint is that the readers voice was low key and monotone enough that I would tend to tune it out as background noise then would have to go back and try to find where I left off listening..