Entries by Internet Gremlin

Defining mental health, mental illness, and your version of health

In April, I wrote a book review for The Body Is a Doorway, a memoir by Sophie Strand. Sophie questions definitions of physical health. She channels her experience with Ehlers-Danos syndrome into a magical realism-infused perspective on reality. But she embraces the messy line between supernatural and super-real because she has found her illness as […]

Book Review: The Body is a Doorway

AUDIO REVIEW The Body is a Doorway by Sophie Strand leads to the doorstep of self-empowerment. It starts with the recognition that the body is rich. Intricate, nature-based systems give us insight to the piece of the puzzle and through that, provide us a way to experience the nectar of interconnectedness that heals our existential […]