Return to Ithaca by Barbara Newborn

Babbara Newborn is a qualified rehabilitation counselor and psychotherapist and over the years has pioneered programs for individuals and families affected by various disabilities. She is currently Chief of Staff at the National Stroke and Quality of Life Medical Education Institute in New York.

• Barbara Newborn takes the reader inside the body and mind of a 22 year old student teacher who suddenly and inexplicably has a stroke. Her book engages the reader in a journey to generate a new self. The author's amazing courage and faith in spite of harmful losses bears witness to the strength and power of the human spirit.

Martha Taylor Sarno, M.A., M.D.(honorary),
Professor of clinical Rehabilitation medicine, New York University of Medicine

• She offers hope and encouragement to others by stressing the three P's of stroke recovery, Patience, Positive Attitude, and Perseverance.

Thelma Edwards, R.N., national Stroke Association, Colorado

• I first started to read this book out of a sense of professional obligation, but soon found myself engrossed by the story.

Leonard Diller Ph.D. Director of Psychology, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
& professor of Clinical rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of medicine

• An inspiring and beautifully written account.

Dr. Peter Birkett, M.D., author of The Psychiatry of Stroke

• Return to Ithaca is a poetically and beautifully written message of love of life, hope, faith, compassion, courage, persistence, spirit and healing.

Gabriel Cousens, M.D., holistic physician, Director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Centre in Patagonia, and author of Conscious Eating, Sevenfold Peace, and
Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet.

• This book is GOOD. No doubt of it. I've read quite a few books by people telling the story of their stroke, but none has moved me as much as this one.

Valerie Eaton Griffith, M.B.E., Founder: Dysphasic support, The Stroke Association.