{"product_id":"trembling-still-the-awful-clarity-of-a-mind-in-eclipse-9781645024538","title":"Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Turbulently brilliant; tuneful and mournful, poignant and funny, heart-rending and mind-grabbing, skillfully improvisational, eloquent and compelling.\"--Gabor Maté, MD, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Normal \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/i\u003e comes a raw and poignant account of the indiscriminate nature of illness--and what it's like to be on the receiving end of a diagnosis.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen Jenkinson is perhaps best known for his extensive work helping people navigate grief, death, and dying, both as the former director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital and afterward, through his Orphan Wisdom School, which seeks to cultivate deep life skills in an age of cultural fragmentation and amnesia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, the unimaginable has descended upon the \"Griefwalker\" himself. In \u003ci\u003eTrembling, Still\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen takes to the page in the wake of his diagnosis with the degenerative neurological condition known as Parkinson's disease--the Beast, as he comes to know it. \"There's a bit of breathing room that comes with seeing life's lessons coming on from a distance, through the mediation of others,\" Stephen writes. But this book is not an account of life's lessons from a distance; it is the picture of what it is to be in the arms of the Beast oneself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten as a series of entries beginning January 3, 2024, and ending with an epilogue dated July 17, 2025, \u003ci\u003eTrembling, Still\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical and meditative journey of reckoning that will resonate with anyone who has experienced or witnessed decline. In illness, there is pain, confusion, grace, dissolution, joy, heart-wrenching grief, light. There's sorrow. Then there's the soul's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Never, once, does the book lose its mesmeric hold. This is not a domestic document. If you seek the unexpected, seek this.\"--Martin Shaw, author of \u003ci\u003eLiturgies of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chelsea Green Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645024538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Stephen Jenkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507670151349,"sku":"9781645024538","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_86bebdba-542d-4f07-b6d5-943f6471453b.jpg?v=1778566490","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/trembling-still-the-awful-clarity-of-a-mind-in-eclipse-9781645024538","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}