WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
Inside Radical Healing
Six parts. Twenty-two chapters. A preface, an epilogue, and a deep resources section — the full map of what you’ll find inside.
PART ONE
The Diagnosis
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Before and After
p. 10
Life split into two halves by an ordinary afternoon at the gym.
The Verdict
A young physician saying the words “brain cancer” — and the quiet that followed.
Into the Fire
p. 14
p. 22
The first weeks. Decisions made fast, with whoever was in the room.
PART TWO
The Storm Intensifies
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The Second Cancer
When healing stops feeling linear and something deeper has to give way.
The Crossroads
The night the path forward stopped looking like the path I’d been on.
Awakening to Possibility
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Taking the Leap
Beyond the Physical
When attention to the body turned inward — and stayed there.
The Discovery of Meditation
How a practical engineer became a sitter, eight minutes at a time.
Choosing the Natural Path
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Beyond what the standard protocol was prepared to offer.
PART THREE
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Walking alongside conventional treatment with everything else I could carry.
The MEDS Foundation
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Understanding MEDS
How a survival framework became a way of life — and what makes it work.
Meditation — Medicine for the Mind
The practice, the science, and what to do when the mind won’t settle.
Exercise — Movement as Life
PART FOUR
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Movement calibrated to your energy — even through treatment.
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Diet — Food Is Medicine
Anti-inflammatory and joyful. Eating as a deliberate act of healing.
Sleep — The Foundation of Healing
Active healing, not passive recovery — the most under-prescribed treatment.
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The Evolution
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The Transformation
Where physical recovery and inner awakening stopped being separate things.
Healing the Mind
Emotional patterns I didn’t know I was carrying — and how they were unlearned.
Honoring the Body
PART FIVE
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Listening to the body as a teacher rather than a project to manage.
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Awakening the Spirit
A quiet transformation, grounded in lived experience, not belief.
p. 94
The Deeper Work
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Healing Hidden Wounds
The work that began once the physical danger had quieted.
Lessons from the Journey
What I’d tell myself in the doctor’s office, looking back.
Moments That Mattered
PART SIX
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The small encounters that turned out to be everything.
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Family Perspectives
In their own words — from those who walked it alongside me.
p. 119
WHY I WROTE THIS
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I wrote the book I needed — and tried to hand the next person what took me years to find.
A Stage 4 diagnosis is not a problem I could engineer my way out of. But I learned there is a great deal I could still do. I hope it meets you wherever you are.
— Purna
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
What readers are saying
Radical Healing is more than a book — it’s a deeply moving journey of courage, transformation, and hope.
Reading this felt like having a thoughtful, generous friend walk me through the most disorienting season of my life. I keep coming back to it.
What I appreciate most: he honors the medicine and the inner work without forcing you to choose between them. Healing is genuinely actionable.
A powerful and compassionate guide that helped me understand healing in a completely new way.
Beautifully written, practical, and deeply human. Highly recommended.
More reader notes are on the way as reviews come in.