Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Casting and Mending: How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies

Casting and Mending: How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies

Scanlon, Patrick M.

Paperback

Health GeneralFishingMental Health

ISBN10: 1939125979
ISBN13: 9781939125972
Publisher: Rit Press
Published: Aug 1 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Henry David Thoreau wrote, Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. That notion, that fishing is about more than catching fish--that it offers tranquility, reflection, and recovery--is at the heart of scores of programs across the United States that use fly fishing to promote physical and emotional healing. Healing for people with cancer, for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and physical disabilities, and for those in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Casting and Mending: How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies tells the story of several of these programs, including the voices of breast cancer patients, veterans, and recovering addicts as they reflect on the often life-changing and life-affirming experience of fly fishing. Casting and Mending also traces fishing in history and popular culture as a source of solace and redemption; explores the science of the healing effects of nature; and makes a case for fly fishing as an instance of flow, an optimal experience that leaves a person stronger, more confident, and refreshed.

Also in

Mental Health

View All