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FOREWORD

You are about to read one of the most inspiring, practical, and helpful books you could ever hope to lay your hands on. It is a book about an autoimmune disease, yet it is not about a specific illness so much as it is about a specific kind of healthfulness.

Emily’s story is a striking and encouraging example of how anyone can be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy, even as they are physically unhealthy. This is a powerful kind of healthfulness that can even minimize the effects of physical disease. That is, it can be the greatest healing device, the greatest medicine, of all.

Yes, we’ve heard this before, but here is a living, breathing example of it that makes real all that we’ve been told about the power of the mind and spirit. These pages demonstrate the strength of the human spirit in the face of enormous challenges, the capacity of humor to transform difficult circumstances, and the immense resource that a partnership with the soul can provide to the body and the mind in the most testing situations.

You’ll find plenty of smiles and a few out-loud laughs here, along with a list of remarkably useful tools and strategies for dealing with a health condition that receives little attention by the national fundraising community, but which profoundly affects the day-to-day lives of millions of people.

My life has been deeply enriched by knowing Emily personally. She stands as a continual inspiration to me, and I am grateful to her for sharing her experience in such a personal way. It has given me strength as I meet the tests and trials of my own life. I know her story can affect you in the same way. On behalf of all of us, thank you, Emily Filmore, for your transformative transparency. We are blessed in you.

Neale Donald Walsch

New York Times best-selling author of Conversations with God