Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh
  • Meet Laura
  • Laura's Books
    • Eating With Your Anorexic
    • Specific Scent of Snakes
    • Throwing Starfish Across the Sea
    • Auldton Laughing Club
  • New Plates podcast
    • Episode 30: Meet Kerrie Baldwin
    • Episode 29 - Dr. Lauren Muhlheim
    • Episode 28: Chicago
    • Episode 27: Done With Dieting? #WakeUpWeightWatchers
    • Episode 26: Croatian Parent Activist Wears Eating Disorder Cause on His Chest
    • Episode 25: Meet Jackie, A Young Woman With A Plan
    • Episode 24: The Science Behind the Nine Truths
    • Episode 23 - Millie Plotkin, Informationist
    • Episode 22 - Tabitha Farrar
    • Episode 21: State Not Weight with Dr. Rebecka Peebles
    • Episode 20: Meet Jessica Setnick RD
    • Episode 19: Maudsley Myths
    • Episode 18: ICED in Prague
    • Episode 17: Cynthia Bulik
    • Episode 16: Dr. Judith Brisman
    • Episode 15: Beth Mayer from MEDA
    • Episode 14: Meet JD Ouellette, Parent Advocate
    • Episode 13: Australian Carer Conference, with Nicki Wilson
    • Episode 12: Eating Disorder Coalition Advocacy Day
    • Episode 11: Gurze/Salucore ED Resource partners, Kathryn and Michael Cortese
    • Episode 10: Meet Tarah Martos
    • Episode 9: Michael P. Levine on Prevention of Eating Disorders
    • Episode 8: Joan Riederer at Sock-It To ED
    • Episode 7: Eric F. van Furth in The Netherlands
    • Episode 6: Erica Husain at Charlotte's Helix and DNA
    • Episode 5: Chevese Underhill Turner at BEDA
    • Episode 4: NEW FED-TR at UCSD and CBL
    • Episode 3: Belinda Caldwell at CEED
    • Episode 2: History of Parent Involvement in Eating Disorders Treatment
    • Episode 1: Why Include Families in Treatment?

The Specific Scent of Snakes

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Award-winning author and essayist, Laura Lyster-Mensh, explores the moments when the most natural course of things is the last thing she expects. Humbled by fertility issues, she learns the true promise of living a natural life when she moves her family into the woods and gets pregnant, tripping over goats and myths and inevitable losses. A story of humility, family, and the truly messy business of an organic life.

"A haunting, heartbreaking, heart-healing memoir."
Susan McCorkindale Pearmund
author of Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

"What first struck me about Laura Lyster-Mensh’s writing was her rather distinctive, and lyrical prose. And her choice of a book title, “The Specific Scent of Snakes” that similarly reflects the author’s personality, values, and life experience. A title that symbolizes Lyster-Mensh’s personal, detailed, and difficult struggle with pregnancy, infertility, loss, and triumph. All framed in an old, rustic house away from the city, and out in the country. One complete with mice and snake skins. Yet a home where her husband, her daughter, and their friends, and extended family all share to different degrees, the authors hope, anguish, tragedy, and resolution...
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"Perhaps the author's experience shines best in the next to the last chapter, “In Humility “. Here Lyster-Mensh shares rare insights about infertility’s impact on adoption, and adoptive families."
Joanne Wolf Small, MSW, LCSW-C
author of The Adoption Mystique


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  • Meet Laura
  • Laura's Books
    • Eating With Your Anorexic
    • Specific Scent of Snakes
    • Throwing Starfish Across the Sea
    • Auldton Laughing Club
  • New Plates podcast
    • Episode 30: Meet Kerrie Baldwin
    • Episode 29 - Dr. Lauren Muhlheim
    • Episode 28: Chicago
    • Episode 27: Done With Dieting? #WakeUpWeightWatchers
    • Episode 26: Croatian Parent Activist Wears Eating Disorder Cause on His Chest
    • Episode 25: Meet Jackie, A Young Woman With A Plan
    • Episode 24: The Science Behind the Nine Truths
    • Episode 23 - Millie Plotkin, Informationist
    • Episode 22 - Tabitha Farrar
    • Episode 21: State Not Weight with Dr. Rebecka Peebles
    • Episode 20: Meet Jessica Setnick RD
    • Episode 19: Maudsley Myths
    • Episode 18: ICED in Prague
    • Episode 17: Cynthia Bulik
    • Episode 16: Dr. Judith Brisman
    • Episode 15: Beth Mayer from MEDA
    • Episode 14: Meet JD Ouellette, Parent Advocate
    • Episode 13: Australian Carer Conference, with Nicki Wilson
    • Episode 12: Eating Disorder Coalition Advocacy Day
    • Episode 11: Gurze/Salucore ED Resource partners, Kathryn and Michael Cortese
    • Episode 10: Meet Tarah Martos
    • Episode 9: Michael P. Levine on Prevention of Eating Disorders
    • Episode 8: Joan Riederer at Sock-It To ED
    • Episode 7: Eric F. van Furth in The Netherlands
    • Episode 6: Erica Husain at Charlotte's Helix and DNA
    • Episode 5: Chevese Underhill Turner at BEDA
    • Episode 4: NEW FED-TR at UCSD and CBL
    • Episode 3: Belinda Caldwell at CEED
    • Episode 2: History of Parent Involvement in Eating Disorders Treatment
    • Episode 1: Why Include Families in Treatment?