Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Heart to Heart, Brain to Brain xiii
1. Jill's Pre-Stroke Life 1
2. Simple Science 9
3. Hemispheric Asymmetries 26
4. Morning of the Stroke 36
5. Orchestrating My Reduce 48
6. My Return to the Still 58
7. Bare to the Bone 66
8. Neurological Intensive Care 76
9. Day Two: The Morning After 83
10. Day Three: G.G. Comes to Town 89
11. Healing and Preparing for Surgery 96
12. Stereotactic Craniotomy 112
13. What I Needed the Most 115
14. Milestones for Recovery 128
15. My Stroke of Insight 138
16. My Right and Left Minds 144
17. Own Your Power 153
18. Cells and Multidimensional Circuitry 157
19. Finding Your Deep Inner Peace 168
20. Tending the Garden 185
Resources 189
Recommendation for Recovery
Ten Assessment Questions 191
Forty Things I Needed Most 193
The Harvard Brian Bank 197
Index 201