{"product_id":"i-see-a-soul-true-stories-of-native-elders-on-illness-identity-and-natural-healing-how-life-experiences-shape-health-and-resilience-1","title":"I SEE A SOUL: True Stories of Native Elders on Illness, Identity, and Natural Healing-How Life Experiences Shape Health and Resilience","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIllness is a gift.\u003cbr\u003eExperience is the teacher.\u003cbr\u003eI SEE A SOUL shares true stories and teachings from Native Elders about illness, grief, identity, healing, and the emotional experiences that shape human life.\u003cbr\u003eThese are not borrowed wellness ideas or outside theories. They are teachings carried forward by Elders who helped people through hardship, loss, addiction, emotional suffering, death, and change. Many of these teachings were shared quietly through conversations, stories, and lived experiences that were never written down.\u003cbr\u003eThis book asks different questions than most health books.\u003cbr\u003eNot only:\u003cbr\u003e“What symptoms do you have?”\u003cbr\u003eBut also:\u003cbr\u003e“What happened to you?”\u003cbr\u003e“What can you learn from what happened?”\u003cbr\u003e“How can your experience help other people?”\u003cbr\u003eThrough stories and reflections, I SEE A SOUL explores how emotions, grief, fear, anger, humility, relationships, and spiritual responsibility can affect health and healing. The stories invite readers to look beyond labels and diagnoses and to better understand the human being carrying the illness.\u003cbr\u003eStories are used because stories are how Elders teach, how people remember, and how truth reaches the heart.\u003cbr\u003eWho is this book for?\u003cbr\u003eFor people seeking a more human understanding of illness and healing.\u003cbr\u003eFor Native readers and those separated from the community.\u003cbr\u003eFor caregivers, helpers, counselors, and healthcare professionals wanting a deeper understanding.\u003cbr\u003eAnd for anyone searching for meaning inside difficult life experiences.\u003cbr\u003eThis book does not offer quick fixes or shallow inspiration. Instead, it offers reflections that help people listen more carefully to their lives and understand how emotional experiences can shape the body, mind, and spirit.\u003cbr\u003eInside these pages are teachings such as:\u003cbr\u003e• Illness is the teacher. Some experiences force people to slow down, reflect, and see life differently.\u003cbr\u003e• Experience shapes character. Wisdom often comes through hardship, grief, humility, and change.\u003cbr\u003e• Healing involves relationship and responsibility. Trust, honesty, timing, and self-reflection matter.\u003cbr\u003e• Emotions affect health. Fear, anger, grief, and unresolved pain can influence the body in ways many people overlook.\u003cbr\u003e• Elders look beyond symptoms. They ask deeper questions about life experience, suffering, and meaning.\u003cbr\u003eReaders often say the book feels less like being instructed and more like sitting quietly, listening, reflecting, and learning through lived experience. Some have described it as feeling like “sitting at the kitchen table with Elders,” hearing stories shared with honesty, humility, and care.\u003cbr\u003eI SEE A SOUL is an invitation to listen more carefully, reflect more deeply, and see health, illness, and other human beings with greater compassion and understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914673053887,"sku":"def18bd3-2a0b-40a9-ac6b-5dc23f921f59","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/3fa0cbf3b89e9a6a324f80a2825a2cfc.jpg?v=1785060678","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/i-see-a-soul-true-stories-of-native-elders-on-illness-identity-and-natural-healing-how-life-experiences-shape-health-and-resilience-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}