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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (original 2020; édition 2020)

par Michele Harper (Auteur)

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. New Age. Nonfiction. HTML:A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book
??Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.? ??The New York Times Book Review
??An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.? ??Ellen Pompeo

As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.

Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn??t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.
In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken??physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process.
The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper??s journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: How to tell the truth when it??s simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn??t the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a da
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Titre:The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Auteurs:Michele Harper (Auteur)
Info:Riverhead Books (2020), Edition: 1, 304 pages
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Not exactly the kind of book I was looking for, but inspiring in its own way. It had a spiritual and philosophical component too that I wasn't expecting, but I liked it. It makes me want to practice more yoga and meditation. ( )
  sophia.magyk | Jan 3, 2024 |
I love medical memoirs. I gravitate toward them by default, so when this one showed up on my radar, it was a no-brainer. Harper's story is poignant and at times heartbreaking: exactly what you'd expect from a memoir written by an ER doctor who spends part of her career working for a VA hospital in Philadelphia.

There's also a deeply spiritual bent in Harper's storytelling that I didn't expect but fully appreciated. Her spirituality is non-traditional (she mentions the goddess a handful of times), but that's exactly that made it so appealing. I hadn't realized how much it would touch my soul to see my own spiritual beliefs reflected back at me in a mainstream book by a highly-respected doctor.

Although the dialogue was at times stilted and Harper's turns of phrase occasionally awkward and convoluted, there's also so much beauty in this book. In the writing, in the storytelling, and in the deeply human stories of love and loss. ( )
  Elizabeth_Cooper | Oct 27, 2023 |
I really wanted to like this but it felt very disjointed, self-congratulatory, and overall not a very cohesive series of stories. It kind of just felt like reading patient files with a hint of "btw I was abused and I'm smart" and I think it would have been more interesting to read just as case studies kind of separated from Michele herself. I wanted there to be more about how her childhood actually shaped her. I did appreciate the parts about her being a Black woman in medicine. ( )
  ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
Have you ever broken a bone? If you have, then you probably have thought that you are considered to be physically broken. But what about all those individuals, including myself, who have never broken a bone? Does that mean that we have never been broken?

It is an interesting question to assess — what it is to be truly broken and whether we tie negativity within that brokenness. The interesting thing about bones and fractures is that most of them heal, and one is able to function afterward — sometimes better and stronger than before.

In The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper, the author defies this question. She states how we are all in fact broken, one way or another. To further explain, the idea behind her experience as an African American female emergency physician is that each of us has been broken at one point in our lives. Whether that brokenness be physical, mental or spiritual, we are all struggling with our own invisible fractures that we make only selected people aware of. The importance now is to learn whether we have healed from these fractures.

Reading this book, I had originally thought it was a novel, but to my surprise, it was a memoir. In this memoir, the reader can witness her experience as an African American woman growing up in a wealthy but abusive household and how that shaped her purpose to help heal and serve others.

As you read each chapter, you get insight into the stories that shaped Harper as an individual and as a physician in the 21st century. Her experiences and her view on brokenness stem from what she has encountered from patients who have taught her how one individual can be broken in many different ways but still find healing. Of course, there will always be individuals who will never change, who will refuse to heal, but at least there's space for those who are willing to endure the hardships, endure the pain and emerge stronger than when they arrived.

This book was considered for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize because of the author's outcome by the end of the memoir. As you start the read, you notice how there is a lot of conflict and self-turmoil toward self-healing and self-discovery. Despite all these issues, the author takes accountability and leads her life toward finding a balance that leads to a peaceful and reassuring conclusion.

Toward the end of the book, she states:

Brokenness can be a remarkable gift. If we allow it, it can expand our space to transform, this potential space is slight, humble, and unassuming. It may seem counterintuitive to claim the benefits of having been broken, but it is precisely when cracks appear in the bedrock of what we thought we knew that the gravity of what has fallen away becomes evident. (Page 278)
Working with a patient with alcohol use disorder, she writes of the progression of healing through phases from insufferable to sweet:

The next phase will be bitter and prolonged; even unpalatable to the point of insufferable when you’re back at home. … It’s the other parts, the mental, emotional, and spiritual parts that you have to do. Not only do you have to begin this healing while you’re here, but you now have to accomplish it without the old crutch of the alcohol. (Page 251)
From this book, I am now eager to read more from BIPOC authors as well as topics that pertain to healing, human evolution, social justice and romance.
Review submitted by Camila Sanchez-Gonzalez (11/11/22) ( )
  RoeschLeisure | Nov 11, 2022 |
An intimate look at emergency medicine in modern urban America as well as the survival strategy of one accomplished black female doctor working within the constraints of that system. We should all be so lucky to be treated by a medical professional with Dr Harper's professional skills, empathy, energy, and communication abilities. I hope she is still publishing and practicing 25 years from now. ( )
  dele2451 | Aug 6, 2022 |
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As a black woman, I navigate an American landscape that claims to be post-racial when every waking moment reveals the contrary, an American landscape that requires all women to pound tenaciously against the proverbial glass ceiling, which we’ve since discovered is made of palladium, the kind of glass that would sooner bow than shatter.
Two of my patients spiked fevers, one became hypoxic, one had chest pain, and another went into rapid heart rate, which made me go into an even faster arrhythmia.
We are not yet at a time in America when the attributed or perceived actions of as brown or black or queer or Muslim “wrongdoer” are considered singular. Instead, such accused are seen as emblematic of an entire demographic, one labeled guilty before charged.
I wrote about these moments so we always remember the power of our actions, so we always remember that beneath the most superficial layer of our skin, we are all the same. In that sameness is our common entitlement to respect, our human entitlement to love.
There were nights when I was worried about his safety driving while black. But that was during an era in DC when black men of affluence were spared the violence upon our men of color. Those times have since changed; in this one way, our country has moved closer to class equality.
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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. New Age. Nonfiction. HTML:A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book
??Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.? ??The New York Times Book Review
??An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.? ??Ellen Pompeo

As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.

Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn??t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.
In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken??physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process.
The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper??s journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: How to tell the truth when it??s simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn??t the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a da

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