Publications

"Inspirational is too weak a word to describe Garrison’s memoir".  Booklist


~ Selected by Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction ~ Volume 1, 2007 ​

​Julia's book chronicles her struggle  to regain control over her life and  her body. Her experience was a blueprint for how not to let the system dictate the direction, pace, and objectives of one’s recovery.

​Additional Publications
​Of Hemorrhage, Homage and Humor
 American Heart/Stroke Association
 Stroke Connection Magazine (20th anniversary issue)
There is a Human Being Inside Every Patient
International Journal of User Driven Health Care 
Issue Apr/Jun 2012
100 Questions & Answers About Stroke
by Dr. Kinan Hreib with invited commentary
When it Comes to Defeating Stroke, I wrote the Book
ABI Recovery Magazine, summer 2017
​An Open Letter to Your Healthcare Provider
LISTEN
The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Road Map
Do's and Don'ts for Doctors
A Prescription for a Productive Healthcare Visit
How I feel now
Keep Your Eye on the Prize—The Quality of Your Life!
Exercise the F-Words

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Critically Acclaimed
"Her early excursions outside the hospital are nearly disastrous yet truly funny as are her adventures at home with a three-year-old child." Kirkus Review

"Her humorous, tear-jerking, struggle-to-recover-against-all-odds story is a lesson in finding silver linings".
Publishers Weekly

"Don't Leave Me This Way's unique tone and utterly un-maudlin appeal is perhaps best summed up by its spunky yet spiky subtitle..."
Elle Magazine

"...pulls readers through her most humbling and triumphant moments"
Boston Magazine

"4 stars out of 4"
Detroit Free Press

"It's as if your wise-cracking neighbor, the one who can always come up with a biting yet hysterically funny story in any disaster, turned handicap into a stand-up routine. Garrison has an edgy sense of irony that prevents the horrendous events...from becoming too maudlin or depressing. Readers can bring this book to the beach and laugh out loud."
Chicago Sun Times--Advance Praise for Don't Leave Me This Way 

~Chosen by the American Association of Therapeutic Humor for a book award, "Furthering the Mission - Non-member: for the best nonfiction book written by, or edited by, a nonmember that reflects and advances the understanding of application of humor and laughter for their positive benefits".