Praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness. In a deeply moving and down-to-earth collection of true stories, this prominent physician shows us life in all its power and mystery and reminds us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives.
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I recommend this book highly to everyone. -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Rachel Naomi Remen is nature's gift to us, a genius of that elusive and crucial capacity, the human heart. -- Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence
This is a beautiful book about life, the only true teacher. -- Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Rachel Naomi Remen is nature's gift to us, a genius of that elusive and crucial capacity, the human heart. -- Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence
This is a beautiful book about life, the only true teacher. -- Bernie Siegel, M.D.
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Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. has been counseling those with chronic and terminal illness for more than twenty years. She is cofounder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, and is currently clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
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Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., has been counseling those with chronic and terminal illness for more than twenty years. She is co-founder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California and is currently clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
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This review is from: Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary (Mass Market Paperback)
Anyone who reads Kitchen Table Wisdom will be touched and inspired by the learning processes of the patients and the life lessons which they teach us through their experiences. The stories are life-affirming and will validate your own experiences in a way that is frequently unavailable in our present social context.
This is a MUST READ for anyone who is a "health-care professional." The wisdom and compassion learned from a lifetime of being both a doctor and a healer is beautifully and articulately expressed in this book. It could easily be described as an ethical will.
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
I was given a copy of this book by a colleague many years ago. I only recently read it for the first time, and I now realize what a wonderful gift I received. I know I will reread this book and refer to it many times. The subtitle explains it: "Stories That Heal." I cannot imagine that anyone reading this book thoughtfully would not be deeply rewarded for the time spent. I very rarely have read something that I would recommend to EVERYBODY, but this is one book I WILL recommend to everybody. Epiphany, anyone? File under "Guide for Living Well."
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I Love Rachel!,
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This is one of my all time favorite books. Since receiving a copy as a gift about ten years ago, I have purchased more than half a dozen to give as gifts. As I explained to a grieving friend, this book does not grab you and dazzle you, it just sneaks up quietly and gives you a very comforting hug. Obviously, it has staying power. I leave my copy out and will randomly read a chapter since I find it enlightening and inspiring. Oh, that all doctors had Dr. Remen's insight and sensitivity! I feel I know her, and I do truly love her. Like all really great books, it seems to develop more depth as time goes by and I mature.
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Kitchen Table Wisdom, New York, San Francisco, Yom Kippur, Joseph Campbell, United States, East Coast, Russian Tea Room New!
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Kitchen Table Wisdom, New York, San Francisco, Yom Kippur, Joseph Campbell, United States, East Coast, Russian Tea Room New!
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- Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen on 5 pages
- Road to Bithynia by Frank g slaughter in Front Matter
- Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen in Front Matter
- A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher on page 283
- Aldous Huxley, (English Authors 79) by Harold Holliday Watts on page 125
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