Junkie Buddha: A Journey of Discovery in Peru - Softcover

Diane Esguerra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903070996 ISBN 13: 9781903070994

Publisher: Eye Books, 2015

Synopsis

Our healing journeys differ. Some move country or hit the bottle. Diane's healing journey was travel. Her son loved travelling and mountain climbing in South America. He'd walked the Inca Trail and longed to return to the sacred citadel of Machu Picchu. On the first anniversary of his death, fragile and aching with grief, she travelled alone to Peru to scatter his ashes there. Diane's adventures en route were by turns scary, electrifying and humorous: flying over the Nazca Lines; a consultation with an Inca witch; an accidental brush with Peruvian porn. She immersed herself in the culture and Peru reconnected her with life. This is a story about profound loss leading to spiritual gain. And it's a story about love.

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Review:

This is an inspiring and uplifting book about finding infinite value in the most intense and painful experience of profound loss. --Sandie Shaw, Singer

If the purpose of personal narratives is to make sense out of one s life then Diane Esguerra s excellent memoir will I suspect present not only an invaluable insight into how telling your story may save you from it, but also achieve redemptive potential for all those who have suffered a similar bereavement. Above all Junkie Buddha: A Journey demonstrates how the healing process is to pass from the narration of trauma as hurt feelings into the narration of trauma as an experience of deep significance. --Marina Cantacuzino, Journalist, Huffington Post

I could not put this gripping travel memoir down. What a refreshing change from the endless stream of ghost-written celebrity outpourings! Junkie Buddha: A Journey is moving and enlightening. It deserves the widest possible readership. --Julia Stephenson, Author

About the Author:

Diane Esguerra is a writer, a script writer and a psychotherapist. She studied English at University College, London, followed by a stint at drama school, and, later, trained as a psychotherapist at the University of Sussex. For a number of years she worked as a performance artist in Britain, Europe and the United States. She has written for theatre and television and is the recipient of a Geneva-Europe Television Award and a Time Out Theatre Award. The founder and director of Greenlight Counselling and Coaching Consultancy, Diane lives in Media City, Salford Quays with her partner David, who works at the BBC.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eye Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1903070996
• ISBN 13: 9781903070994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256