Leigh Fortson's Books

Embrace, Release, Heal

An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer

By: Leigh Fortson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Embrace, Release, Heal

An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer

By: Leigh Fortson

After her third cancer diagnosis in three years, Leigh Fortson was given few options by her doctors and little hope for a bright future. For weeks, she mourned the life she thought she was losing—until she was introduced to an idea that changed everything: our thoughts and emotions influence every cell in our body. This revelation gave her the hope that would begin her journey to becoming cancer-free and more joyful than she had ever been before. Embrace, Release, Heal shares her inspirational story and the fruits of her research in one empowering book. Created to help anyone whose life has been affected by cancer, this in-depth resource offers interviews with both allopathic and integrative medical experts; remarkable accounts from people who transcended "terminal cancer" and are now thriving, snapshots of progressive treatment techniques; and insights into other key factors that can affect well-being—including thoughts, emotions, and diet.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

443

Publisher

Sounds True

Published Date

ISBN 10

1604074566

ISBN 13

9781604074567

Embrace, Release, Heal

An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer

By: Leigh Fortson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Embrace, Release, Heal

An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer

By: Leigh Fortson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

443

Publisher

Sounds True

Published Date

ISBN 10

1604074566

ISBN 13

9781604074567

Nightshift NYC

By: Russell Leigh Sharman,Cheryl Harris Sharman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nightshift NYC

By: Russell Leigh Sharman,Cheryl Harris Sharman

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore some less familiar ones as well—taking us on a walking tour of homelessness in Manhattan, onto a fishing boat out of Brooklyn, and into other little-known corners of the night. Traveling past the threshold of voyeurism into the lives of real people, they depict a social space entirely apart—one that is highly structured and inherently subversive. Together, these stories open a compelling view on contemporary urban life and, along the way, reveal the soul of the city itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052094206X

ISBN 13

9780520942066

Stories from Jonestown

By: Leigh Fondakowski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Stories from Jonestown

By: Leigh Fondakowski

The saga of Jonestown didn’t end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories. Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong—taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown’s end still affects their lives decades later. What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful—of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

443

Publisher

U of Minnesota Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1452934800

ISBN 13

9781452934808

What to Do When the Doctor Says It's IBS

Alternative and Traditional Treatments for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

By: Leigh Fortson,Bing Lee

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What to Do When the Doctor Says It's IBS

Alternative and Traditional Treatments for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

By: Leigh Fortson,Bing Lee

This is a repackage of The IBS Breakthrough. This book explores the nature and causes of irritable bowel syndrome and outlines the current treatment options. A large section of the book is devoted to the use of Chinese medicine to heal IBS, which has been proven in double-blind studies to have a dramatic impact on the symptoms of this debilitating disease. It is a great handbook for someone recently diagnosed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

155

Publisher

Fair Winds Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1592330746

ISBN 13

9781592330744

Book's by Leigh Fortson

Embrace, Release, Heal

Embrace, Release, Heal

Embrace, Release, Heal

Embrace, Release, Heal

Nightshift NYC

Nightshift NYC

Stories from Jonestown

Stories from Jonestown

What to Do When the Doctor Says It's IBS

What to Do When the Doctor Says It's IBS

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email