On Healing

Amitha Kalaichandran’s provocative book ON HEALING is part memoir and also a deep exploration of the complex web that creates “healing.” Caught in a toxic hospital work environment in Ontario, Kalaichandran determined to learn everything there is to learn about the different facets involved in and necessary for healing, on both physical and emotional levels. A thorough researcher and interviewer, she weaves together patient stories with deep histories of various elements of medicine, healing, and spirituality, sometimes reaching back as far as ancient Greece and Egypt while also exploring more modern experiments on the effect environment can have on healing. ON HEALING is a fascinating exploration of just how complicated and interconnected the various elements of healing are, and how little room we are given to fully integrate what we need to heal.