{"product_id":"9781475987416","title":"The Wellness Diaries: My Journey out of Mental Illness Through Nutrition and Lifestyle Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Wellness Diaries takes readers on a unique roller coaster journey through the eyes of a paranoid college student while battling mental illness, to the darkness of planning suicide, to a remarkable recovery. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt offers an account of the author’s experience of mental illness-early symptoms, diagnosis, battle with medications, and a plan to end the pain. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book takes an about turn as the journey is observed and tracked, from despair and suffering, to inspiration, adventure, contagious enthusiasm, and rebuilding a life, one step at a time, through reclaiming health. It includes persuasive arguments as to why health is a choice, and it offers a unique approach to health and wellness from the standpoint of lifestyle, including essential fundamentals such as a plant-based diet, quality sleep and outside activity. It discusses some aspects of health which are sometimes overlooked. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“I feel mountain ranges above my dark times. Those days are in the past, and so distant from me now, that looking back upon them seems as if I have woken up from a really bad nightmare...” \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReaders will be touched with tears and laughter, and may wonder when Owen catches a break. Experience his in-depth sincerity in accounting the exact events which shaped this man’s recovery from mental illness into a new life filled with gratitude and genuine love for life, the Earth, and all living things, and with a new outlook as a botanist and a naturalist. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Wellness Diaries is a book which offers a contagiously inspiring outlook on health, available as a choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144425881840,"sku":"9781475987416","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475987416_p0.jpg?v=1763607502","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475987416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}