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Kitchen Table Wisdom Stories That Heal

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ISBN-10: 1594482098

ISBN-13: 9781594482090

Edition: 10th 2006 (Anniversary)

Authors: Rachel Naomi Remen, Dean Ornish

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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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Book details

List price: $17.00
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Dean Ornish is a clinical professor of medicine who received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine and founded the Bucksbaum Chair in Preventative Medicine at the Preventative Medicine Research Institute. Dr. Ornish's research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet and the American Journal of Cardiology. He was also featured on PBS's Nova and on Bill Moyer's PBS special Healing and the Mind. His two best-selling novels include Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease and Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly. He was also named one of the most interesting people of 1995…    

Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition
Foreword
Introduction
Life Force
Plum Blossoms
The Will to Live
A Front-Row Seat
Style
Silence
Reading Between the Lines
Damming the River
Judgment
Getting It Right
Meeting Mr. Right
Back to Basics
Beyond Perfection
The Ordinary Hero
Professionals Don't Cry
Who Is That Masked Man?
Kissing the Boo-Boo
How It Was
The Gift of Healing
On Naming and Awe
Grist for the Mill
The Wood-of-No-Names
Traps
Healing at a Distance
Mirror Image
A Good Fortune
Grace
Sleight of Hand
The Emperor's New Clothes
Lag Time
Freedom
The Long Way Home
The Container
Another Kind of Silence
Going Home
Remembering
Opening the Heart
A Way of Life
Just Listen
In Flight
To Be Seen by the Heart
Making Caring Visible
No Statute of Limitations
The Task Gets Between Us
Surprised by Meaning
Lineage
Some Things Are Ours Forever
Embracing Life
At Last
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Life Is for the Well
A Room with a View
Three Fables on Letting Go
Endbeginnings
Surrender
Attached or Committed
Eating the Cookie
Choose Life!
Attached or Committed 2
All or Nothing
Embracing Life
Live and Help Live
Human Being
Live and Help Live
How We See One Another
Touching
The Meeting Place
The Holy Shadow
Healing Is Mutual
Giving Darshan
Knowing God
What If God Blinks?
Connecting Up
Prayer
Grandmother Eve
The Rabbi's Rabbi
Sanctuary
Consecrating the Ordinary
One of a Kind
Mystery and Awe
Freedom
The Question
What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
In Darkness
Seeing Around the Corner
Remembering the Sacred
Mystery
The Final Lesson
Epilogue
Acknowledgments