Sandra's Book Club: Blog Tour: HOPE, STRENGTH, AND COURAGE by Kathryn Lee

Hope, Strength and Courage: With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry

by Kathryn Lee

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GENRE: Autobiography - Medical and Family

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BLURB:

This book has been a self-reflective journey of a medical doctor as an ordinary person going through ordinary life's ups and downs. In epistolary form, its articles were written during the special time of her first year of training to become a general practitioner/family physician, including making the tough decision to give up hospital specialist training, "withdrawing" from fast-paced hospital work, transitioning to working from a metropolitan hospital to a rural community clinic, witnessing and getting used to a younger sibling's growing up, and being independent from a close and loving family. Some also feature a promotion of the author's new academic career at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and how it was perceived. The book shows a journey of love, strength, perseverance, purpose and encouragement. Lots of anecdotes, lots of stories, lots of quotes. With love and respect.

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EXCERPT

Somehow, your reactions over this year appear quite similar to the stages of grief, namely: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This year has been tough for you. You went away from your family to take a job in the country, and leaving your family behind caused you grief. For the first few months you were in denial; you constantly told yourself that you wanted to give this a try but were also afraid of committing to it. Then the car accident happened in May, which returned you to the comfort and home of your parents. This was good for your healing, but it cause you to go through an emotional yo-yo about your choices; yes, you were angry and tried bargaining. There were certainly prolonged moments of depression and your mind wandered off to unhelpful stuff. Now, since you’ve had two weeks off with family, I sense you are showing signs of acceptance—you know you cannot change things. I can see a bit of maturity coming out. You are realizing that many things in life are not ideal, not perfect, and that going through them requires a tough face and heart. Sometimes you just have to ‘suck it up’. Life has not been bad for us, really. The other day you were reflecting on how God has been guiding your steps; that is utterly amazing.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Kay Li is a medical doctor. A Christian. A daughter. A sister. A student in life university. An ordinary person in an extraordinary world.

CONNECT WITH KATHRYN LEE

WEBSITE:

https://authorkathrynlee.com/

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22644710.Kathryn_Lee

PURCHASE LINKS:

Amazon.com.au

https://amazon.com.au/dp/0228833280

Amazon.com