Synopses & Reviews
With a focus on preventative health care, this visually dynamic, compelling guide empowers people to live life to the fullest. Responding to the growing trend toward do-it-yourself health care, this lively book gives insight into how to wean off the government or corporate health care models. It also features an extensive amount of information for queer and transgendered people, and addresses the specific needs and issues unique to each. This is an all-encompassing, how-to health book that anyone can pick up and put to direct use for an improved existence.
Review
“Awesome for many reasons, but most endearingly so for the interview Rob conducts with his dad, Rachel, who transitioned from masculine to feminine later in life and for Rob's comics depicting him growing into his queerness.” —Tessa Maria LaLonde
Synopsis
Stories of survival and recovery from a wide spectrum of contributors teach you ways to taking care of your body and mind when the government and corporate healthcare systems are doing their best to make you sick, broke, and crazy. Thirty-seven personal essays directed at helping the reader learn and cope with their own issues, cover topics from abortion to ablation, depression to drinking and drug use, abusive relationships to veganism, coming out as gay to body image and eating disorders, marathon running to recovering from a sprained ankle. Alive With Vigor has a special focus on queer, youth, and transgendered people and recognizing different medical, cultural, and emotional needs.
Synopsis
Alive With Vigor compiles stories of surviving--and thriving--from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal essays recount matters of preventative health care, the hard decisions we each have to make, Do It Yourself health care, and how to deal with extracting health care from government/corporate health care systems. Alive With Vigor has a special focus on queer, youth, and transgender people, recognizing that everyone has different health care needs. Finally a how to book where you can put the advice directly to use in your life
Synopsis
Alive With Vigor: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle contains the stories of survival from a wide spectrum of contributors on all matters of preventative health care, the hard decisions we each have to make, Do It Yourself health care, and how to deal with extracting health care from government/corporate health care systems. Alive With Vigor! has a special focus on queer, youth, and transgendered people, recognizing different health care needs. Alive With Vigor! is a how to book where you can put the advice directly to use in your life!
About the Author
Rob Sutter is a cartoonist and the author of Awesome Future, Shut Up & Love the Rain, The Strange Voyage of the Leona Joyce, and Unsinkable. He lives in Minneapolis.