Rachel Clarke

There are a thousand books about eating disorders, taking everything from gender to age into account. But they have a habit of assuming that you''re neurotypical, and that your brain works in a very specific way. Not exactly helpful if yours doesn''t!In this essential self-help guide, Rachel Clark shares what she''s learned from her own experiences as an autistic and ADHD young person with anorexia, and how you can use it for your own recovery. She explores how eating disorders can be a coping mechanism for the stress of a neurotypical world, and how autism can both create the ideal environment for an eating disorder to develop, but also provide key tools to overcome it. Practical exercises help you get to grips with your ED in a way that suits your brain, and advice from direct experience supports you in advocating for yourself and creating an environment where you can save your own life on your own terms.

Specialistka paliativní péče Rachel Clark denně pomáhá nevyléčitelně nemocným smířit se s osudem a snaží se jim umírání co nejvíce ulehčit. Když však Rachelinu otci diagnostikují poslední stádium rakoviny a ona stojí tváří v tvář odchodu milovaného člověka, otřese to nejen jejím vnímáním celé dosavadní praxe, ale na povrch se dostanou nejrůznější otázky o smyslu života. Rachel si postupně uvědomuje, že většina z nás žije tak, jako bychom byli nesmrtelní. Když nás ale okolnosti přimějí se zastavit, můžeme zodpovědně říct, že jsme prožili život naplno?

'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life, and with the love of life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears' Robert Macfarlane From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places. As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world. Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.