Inside the Turbulent Journey of Rachel Weaver: The Untold Story Behind Dizzy
I was fascinated by the power dynamics between bears and humans in the natural world and how much of those power dynamics were repeated in the clinical setting between the doctor and the patient. I kept thinking about what the natural world teaches us about power and relationships and resilience and resourcefulness and I began to see all these elements at play in three distinct phases of my life: the time I had with my dad before he died, the years I spent in Alaska in the backcountry, and the years I spent as a chronically ill patient. I scraped everything I wrote about the medical journey and rewrote it through the lens of the natural world and it became much less about being sick and much more about being human.
