![]() "This was far more therapeutic and real in a sense than my memories. ![]() "I felt that if my time was running out, I wanted to record my life story for my grandchildren." She began work on her own memoir but stopped in order to concentrate on the cancer blog she was writing at the same time. "I no longer had the appetite for fiction as my reality became a more complex story in itself," she writes. After his death in 1993, she started going to creative writing classes hoping to write a story about a family torn apart by war, but left when she became ill. His entire family was murdered by the Nazis and he had talked very little about his past to his children. Diary entries add further real-time insight and depth to a book which has much wisdom to impart to readers.īefore her diagnosis, Mindy had wanted to write a story about the Holocaust based on her late father's life in pre-war Poland. The knowledge she has gleaned from her wide reading on a range of subjects connected to health and loss, which she shares so articulately with readers, and "Stepping Stones", a helpful summing up in bullet points at the end of each chapter of lessons she has learnt along the way, make this much more than just Mindy's story. Started in 2018 and completed in 2020 during lockdown in London, the book charts Mindy's personal journey over the past nine years as she has faced not only serious illness, but a further devastating blow with the sudden, untimely death of her husband, Johnny. ![]() For the first time in years she was, as she puts it in her new book, Healing Pathways, "ahead of the game". She could never travel on public transport. She was used to a world without hugs, kisses or handshakes. Since being diagnosed with cancer in 2012, Mindy had needed to self-isolate many times to safeguard herself against infection during chemotherapy treatments. In March 2020, just as the world was beginning to grapple with Covid-19, Mindy Wiesenberg realized that she was more than ready to meet the challenges of lockdown, self-isolation and social distancing.
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