Emily Wells Boeken

The narrative delves into Emily Wells' profound journey with Behcet's Disease, a rare condition that eluded diagnosis for years. As a former ballerina, she reflects on her experiences of pain and the struggle to articulate her suffering. By examining the works of influential thinkers like Freud and Sontag, Wells investigates the connection between gender, pain, and language, bridging historical and contemporary perspectives. This exploration emphasizes the challenge of conveying personal experiences of illness, offering a fresh millennial voice to the literature on health and identity.

A medical wake-up call transforms Emily Wells' ordinary life, triggering a journey of self-discovery marked by synchronistic events. As she encounters hidden aspects of her identity, Emily embarks on an exploration that challenges her understanding of herself and her place in the world. This profound journey reveals unexpected connections and insights, reshaping her reality.

When Little Crab wakes in the night to find himself all alone he has to think hard to remember what his parents have taught him. Can he self soothe back to sleep?Little Crab Self Soothes is a ‘self-help' book for young children who struggle with anxiety. A bedtime story with a difference, Little Crab Self Soothes is intended to be read in two ways, with the overall aim being to help parents and carers teach children the basic skills required to self soothe and remain calm in a variety of situations. Carers can read the book all the way through to reassure children that their special people will be there waiting for them when they wake in the morning. Alternatively, the book is read to the point at which Little Crab falls asleep and the breathing exercise is repeated until the child is fully relaxed and/or asleep.

Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, whole-body pain she assumed was normal for someone used to pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was 'all in her head.' It was only in college that she learned the name for the illness she had been suffering from all her life: Behcet's Disease, a rare congenital disorder causing blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, arthritis, and swelling of the brain. In A Matter of Appearance, Wells, now a professor of creative writing at UC Irvine, traces her journey as she tries to understand and define this specific and personal pain, internally and externally. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, tracing a line from the 'hysteria patients' documented at the Salpatri¬re Hospital in nineteenth-century Paris through to the contemporary New Age healer