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""Grace Quantock has written Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness with a wonderful blend of warmth, validation, and practical guidance. The tools in the book make navigating the challenges of chronic illness more manageable and sustainable, and I am grateful to Grace for offering readers a roadmap for reclaiming their agency and joy. Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness is an incredibly valuable resource that I highly recommend!"" --Dr. Jennifer Caspari, Clinical Psychologist and author of You Are More Than Your Body ""This book is a revelation. ""Living Well with Chronic Illness"" addresses the politics of being sick, the exhausting navigation of daily life, and aspects of chronic illness no one else talks about. I found guidance here I've never encountered elsewhere: how to handle complicated relationships, how illness intersects with other marginalized identities, and concrete tools that work. Essential, compassionate, and genuinely transformative."" --Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias ""Grace's words are filled with authenticity and integrity. She is an intelligent and inspiring woman and her message can lift you up when you're feeling down. Everyone should read her."""" --Dr. David Hamilton, bestselling author ""Grace Quantock is an advocate, champion, heaven-sent disseminator of wellness wisdom... [Her book] feels like a wellness-angel sitting down with you, holding your hand through the doctor's waiting room, surgeries, struggles and joys. If you do one thing to cope with illness, read Grace."" --Linda Sivertsen, multiple New York Times bestselling author ""Grace Quantock is a wellness provocateur, writer, teacher - and a total inspiration. Her book is a how-to guide to a strong and sensational life with chronic illness. Learn how to cope when the doctors say no cure, shift to action and empowerment and live well, in full colour now. Just visiting her site makes you feel stronger!"" --Jennifer Louden, bestselling author of The Women's Comfort Books ""For anyone who feels like their body has betrayed them with illness, Grace Quantock models how to start using illness as an opportunity for personal growth and spiritual awakening, allowing the journey to blaze a trail towards a more fulfilling life. When illness is viewed as a message from the core of who you are, pointing you towards your deepest truth, rather than as a punishment, getting sick just could be the best thing that ever happened to you."" --Lissa Rankin, MD, author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself ""Grace truly embodies what it means to care for the miracle that is your human form, no matter what's going on around you - or within you."" --Alexandra Franzen, author of You're Going To Survive ""Grace Quantock's book will be tremendously helpful to those with chronic illness."" --Toni Bernhard, author of How to Be Sick, winner of the Nautilus Book Award and How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness ""There's great power, beauty and potential in Grace's writing and in her. It's a beautiful thing to work with her and watch what she's making."" --Cathy Rentzenbrink, memoirist, author of The Last Act of Love ""Grace Quantock is a brilliant new voice... Keep your eye on this trailblazer - her life-changing work is driven by a magnetic healing energy and an endless compassion for all beings."" --Kris Carr, New York Times best selling author of Crazy Sexy Cancer and Crazy Sexy Kitchen ""Extraordinary, everything she's written has been extraordinary."" --Michael Sheen, Actor ""Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness is a vital book: insightful, practical, and grounded. It invites the reader to see beyond unhelpful tropes and take control of their lives. Grace Quantock is a force for good in the world, and her book should be available on prescription."" --Stephanie Butland, novelist and author of the Bah! To Cancer books ""Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness is tough for all of us and living WELL with chronic illness can feel like an ask too far, but Grace Quantock offers the possibility that with self-care and a kindness that acknowledges the preciousness of our individual experience, we might come to a place of living well with who and how we are. We live in a culture that focuses on cure, but for many of us what really matters is healing. This work offers the possibility that we might heal of and for ourselves, the selves that we are now - not a dream that may never arrive in the future."" --Dr. Stella Duffy, psychotherapist and author ""If you read my book and thought wait, I wanted an *actual* handbook for how to deal with my mysterious illness, Grace Quantock's Living Well with Chronic Illness is the one for you. Packed with an absolute wealth of knowledge on self-care, mental health, and adaptive strategies for living with chronic illness, this comprehensive guide can help you find joy, resilience, and even a little hope while managing chronic illness. Highly recommend."" --Sarah Ramy, author of The Lady's Handbook to Her Mysterious Illness ""Living Well with Chronic Illness isn't like other books that teach people about living with chronic illness and physical disability. Grace speaks directly to us, providing tools and space required to live life to our fullest capacity."" --Tamela J. Gordon, author of Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land ""With her depth of knowledge, experience, and compassion, Grace Quantock has written an inspiring and much-needed guide to life with chronic illness. This book is an invaluable companion for everyone navigating health conditions and medical systems - and a passionate work of activism and advocacy."" --Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women ""Even with all the information we now have at our fingertips, many of us with disabilities and chronic illnesses are still struggling to find balance, to seek wellness amid the bad days, the pain, the doctor's appointments, the brain fog. This is why Grace Quantock's Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness is a godsend, the missing piece to our healing. Written by someone with both lived experience and therapeutic knowledge, this exceptional, well-organized book is filled with practical and professional insights and strategies as well as effective and engaging journaling exercises. This much needed resource will help impacted readers achieve wellness amid the exhausting, nonstop realities of living with disabilities and chronic illnesses."" --Dr. Christie Collins, editor and author of Views from the Inside: Writers Confronting Stigma, Exploitation, and Ableism

""Grace Quantock has written Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness with a wonderful blend of warmth, validation, and practical guidance. The tools in the book make navigating the challenges of chronic illness more manageable and sustainable, and I am grateful to Grace for offering readers a roadmap for reclaiming their agency and joy. Reclaiming Wellness with Chronic Illness is an incredibly valuable resource that I highly recommend!"" --Dr. Jennifer Caspari, Clinical Psychologist and author of You Are More Than Your Body ""This book is a revelation. ""Living Well with Chronic Illness"" addresses the politics of being sick, the exhausting navigation of daily life, and aspects of chronic illness no one else talks about. I found guidance here I've never encountered elsewhere: how to handle complicated relationships, how illness intersects with other marginalized identities, and concrete tools that work. Essential, compassionate, and genuinely transformative."" --Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias

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Grace Quantock is a writer and psychotherapeutic counselor. Grace is a London Library Emerging Writer and winner of A Writing Chance Award from Michael Sheen and New Writing North. She was shortlisted for The Nan Shepherd Prize in 2021 and the Writers and Artists Working-Class Writers' Prize. Grace has been published and featured in The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Observer, The Times, The Hay Festival, and listed as a Marie Claire magazine Wonder Woman. Her TEDx Talk ""Using Your Brokenness to Break Boundaries"" went viral and is taught in university syllabi and schools across the UK and beyond. She helps folks live well with pain, illness, and trauma without disembodiment, burnout, or blame. Over the last 15 years, she's provided therapeutic support, psychoeducation and advocacy to thousands of people with complex bodies and lives through workshops, courses, books, and 1:1 therapeutic sessions.

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