Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot: From Heroic Fantasy to Human RealityAn Approximate Autobiography by Bill Dahl


Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot: From Heroic Fantasy to Human RealityAn Approximate Autobiography
Title : Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot: From Heroic Fantasy to Human RealityAn Approximate Autobiography
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ISBN : 1460290682
ISBN-10 : 9781460290682
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 336
Publication : Published December 12, 2017

This story of deep wounding and subsequent healing bridges lifetimes. Evelyn is born into a long line of Dutch Barons, who through their greed to keep their land, marry their cousins, rarifying the genetics to produce genius and madness. Evelyn is gifted with both an excess of grey matter and a very sensitive physiology and nervous system. The uprooting of her family through immigration to Canada, and the subsequent poverty, and loss further take their toll, though the family meets hardship with courage and creativity. The strain of failing health, learning problems, and gender complexities culminate in a near death experience. Surprisingly after nearly dying, Evelyn begins to recuperate. Finishing high school, she proceeds directly into Pre-Meds and after mostly single-parenting a baby through Medical school, she graduates. Following her heart to be with a woman, results in the loss of her son. This heartbreak is multiplied after she begins to work as a physician, and realizes that the woman she loves does not want to live. Evelyn invites you to follow her through a painful transformation, causing a spiritual opening that births the artist in her. This opening also leads her to remember past lives, that allow her to see the workings of cause and effect, while encouraging her to move forward revitalized into a whole new life.

Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot: From Heroic Fantasy to Human RealityAn Approximate Autobiography Reviews

  • Susan Carnes

    I noticed "Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot", so recently published, did not have reviews on Amazon yet, so although Evelyn Wolfe did not ask me to, I promised myself that I would read and review it. I finished the last page, sad that it ended, but encouraged too, reading that there would be yet another volume. Thankful. Like I had just tasted some exotic elixir and found the flavor so delicious I wanted to fill my glass again and again with more. MORE. So now, my review? How to begin? It is like reviewing a rainbow!
    All night I tossed and turned remembering favorite scenes in the book. Struggling to pay the cost of pre-med, keep her focus studying, and hold body and soul together, Evelyn pitched a tent in an uninsulated attic, freezing each night of the winter season, and walked a dog in lieu of paying rent. She boiled a tea of cedar fronds to ward off scurvy. Evelyn immersed herself in her studies, describing her amazement over the way the liver functions in the human body as a "mental orgasm."
    The book is replete with humor, insight, and self-diagnosis, as she notes society teaches "more is better" in it's "school of insatiable hunger," and finds that she is addicted to "overwhelm. "Evelyn also suffers from unhealed inner wounds. Once, she is admonished by an enraged Italian for dripping her tears on his lady. True enough, Evelyn was draped over the upper balcony of an opera house in Rome, awash in the misery of La Bohme. As the 250 lb. diva, supposedly wasting away from tuberculosis, sang of lost love, our heroine deluged the audience below.
    All and all, since I am to suggest a star rating, I would say the stars in the galaxy would be a suitable number. I learned, laughed, cried and totally enjoyed this book. It is for those of us bent on expanding our understanding. It is for those of us who have rushed forward where angels fear to tread, or for us timid souls who have not, but instead know to bow to a wise, ferocious, lovable fighter of a woman who owns her considerable special gifts yet remains humble while attempting to carve away what karma is not her own and become who she is. Her journey is spiritual, funny, and at its core is kindness in search of meaning while learning to love the child within. It is refreshing, original, outrageous, and heart-rending. The language is evocative. Inspired. Read it if you dare.