Unconfined
A Memoir of Body, Power, and Presence
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For most of his life, Dr. Victor Pineda was driven by a secret contract he made as a child in a doctor’s office: if he was to remain on this earth, despite a rare genetic disorder requiring a wheelchair and a breathing device, he had better justify his presence. This pact propelled him from a boy denied an education in Venezuela to a leading voice on the world stage. Traveling the globe, advising the World Bank and UNICEF, serving three US presidential administrations, and negotiating the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities—all while navigating the world in a wheelchair with a ventilator. He built an undeniable life of purpose, brick by brick, one relationship at a time.
But Victor's relentless motion was also an escape. In this gripping and vulnerable memoir, Pineda takes readers from the corridors of the United Nations to a makeshift pyre on the banks of the Ganges, where he was spiritually transformed, from a chaotic gun market in Yemen to the quiet of a locked-down Berkeley apartment. Forced into stillness by a global pandemic, he confronted the questions he had spent a lifetime outrunning. What makes a life worth living? And what remains when we stop trying to prove we deserve it?
Unconfined is more than a memoir; it is a profound exploration of spirituality, a meditation on the grace of interdependence, and a testament to the power of being truly seen. It’s an invitation to dismantle the prisons of our own making and to discover the freedom that comes not from what we achieve, but from who we are, together.
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