Stacey Marie Kerr MD

Wild Heart (eBook, ePUB)

A True Story of Hippies, Healers, and Harleys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr, a road is only worth traveling if it comes with some unexpected turns.

In her midfifties, Dr. Stacey Kerr was diagnosed with osteoporosis and told to play it safe. Instead, she bought her first Harley. Over the next fourteen years, Stacey and her two best friends decided to give the finger to aging gracefully, ultimately embarking on seven epic motorcycle tours throughout the western United States filled with drama, introspection, and pure joy.

Using her motorcycle adventures to guide her memories, Stacey travels the twisting road of her own past, in which the only constant is defying expectations. As a young woman, Stacey escaped an authoritarian childhood to join the counterculture of the sixties. On The Farm, the largest hippie commune in the United States, she spent a decade practicing intentional spirituality. There, she came to admire, and ultimately clash with, the mother of spiritual midwiferyIna May Gaskin. In her midthirties, Stacey would reject convention once again by going to medical school and transforming her life.

As Stacey rides the curving highways of the West, she reflects on marriage and motherhood; the cultlike energy of powerful spiritual leaders; the miracles, traumas, and lessons of a physician's life, including a near-fatal delivery of her own grandson; her long-held belief in the healing power of cannabis; and the vital necessity of love at every stage of life, from birth to death and beyond. Written with irreverence and good humor, Wild Heart is an inspiring memoir for anyone ready to make braver and bolder choicesat any age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Girl Friday Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781959411314
• Artikelnr.: 67414917

Autorenporträt

Stacey Marie Kerr, MD, is an educator, a physician, a mother, and an adventurer. She has published essays in FringeWare Review, the Sun, and JAMA and has written on the safe and appropriate use of cannabis for Hawaiian Ethos. Dr. Kerr's first book, Homebirth in the Hospital, shares dramatic birth stories encouraging women's self-empowerment in every birthing experience, no matter where that birth occurs. Kerr lives in Santa Rosa, California.