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Product Description This inspiring and informative book uses large print and reader-friendly design to share ways that can be used to assist living well and meaningfully with life changing and chronic conditions. Major concepts related to living with chronic conditions are combined with a wealth of quotes and personal stories. An interactive book, it offers awareness activities and open space to inspire, enrich, challenge, and validate experiences, to help discover and create new ways to add meaning and quality to life. The ten topics of the book include change and loss, issues related to diagnosis, grief across the lifespan, resilience, and ways to build effective support networks. Beautifully written and designed, A Thousand Ways celebrates how hope and possibility can be lived without denying difficulty and challenge. Review This book offers a blend of intelligence, wisdom, experience and sensitivity, as you would expect from Donna O Toole. It is a book rich with helpful and illuminating insights that will be of value to anyone wrestling with the challenges of chronic illness. --Dr. Neil ThompsonThis is a beautiful book! It is filled with practical help, inspiration, honesty and hope. Ms. O Toole is an experienced, wise, and trusted guide. She shares her journey with candor and authenticity that invites the reader into community and reminds us we are not alone. This thin volume helps us more fully understand the scope of living with chronic conditions and opens possibilities for living a more enriched life. --Kim Sangster, MSW, MDiv, LCSW About the Author Author Donna O'Toole has been actively involved in the areas of loss, grief, and chronic conditions for over fifty years, bringing a wealth of experience and wisdom to her writing. She currently lives with three long term chronic conditions herself. They limit her mobility but not her joy in living.