About this title: As a physician, professor of medicine, therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness, Dr. Remen has a unique perspective on healing. Here are the passages, quotes, and stories from "Kitchen Table Wisdom" that have profoundly affected her legions of fans.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781594482502ISBN:1594482500
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Edition: Gift
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group Usa
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781594482502ISBN:1594482500
Description: New. As a physician, professor of medicine, therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness, Dr. Remen has a unique perspective on healing. Here are the passages, quotes, and stories from "Kitchen Table Wisdom" that have profoundly affected her leg... read more
"Remen's books are some of my all-time favorites. She recounts her own struggle with a chronic, life-threatening disease and becoming a physician for the terminally ill at a time when females had just begun entering the medical profession and were not taken very seriously by their male counterparts. Remen's transition from a nurturer to a fiercely competitive, unfeeling clinician back to a nurturer again is woven throughout the stories and is a reminder to us all to experience life to its fullest; indeed, it was many of her terminally ill patients who taught Remen these lessons. There's healing for everyone in these pages, no matter what the devastating experience ... I read it just after my father died suddenly and was amazed by the comfort I found in this book. We must sometimes unlearn what we think we know, if we are to learn how to live better. Sometimes it's a matter of just seeing through someone else's eyes. -Profound wisdom, indeed."
"This book is my current favorite book, I would give it more than five stars. I learned about it from NPR's "Speaking of Faith" series when Krista Tippet interviewed the author, Rachel Naomi Remen. It is a series of many short essays as the subtitle says "Stories that Heal". the author a physician was diagnosed at 15 with Chrohn's disease and has been chronically ill most of her life. First a pediatrican, then a counselor to those with cancer, these are stories about herself and those she has worked with. I can not remember reading anything more authentic and real. I have cried after reading many of the stories, not because they are sad, but because they touch the deepest part of me. These stories have bits of her wisdom gained from her life experience delicately woven into them -- and there is a tremendous amount of wisdom altogether. I can read it slowly a few at a time. I will be sad when I finish and will read it. At least she has one more book that I can read after this."
"The first part of this book is outstanding. I bought the book so I could highlight many passages that directly addressed some of my struggles with relationships, self-esteem, etc. It got a little long towards the end, but her "wisdom" in dealing with what life gives you was very, very helpful to me."
"This is a book of surpassing kindness - stories of varying lengths, pulled from Remen's life as a doctor growing gradually more and more comfortable with the idea of the inexplicable; with, in Remen's own words, "mystery and awe."
Taken as a whole, the book is a wonderful reminder to value every part of our daily experience, physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. There is much in the book about the saving grace of science, but even more about the strength of individuals in the places where science can't go - especially when facing death. There's a sweet weight to each story that lingers long after the book is closed - I'm glad to have taken what feels like a breath in reading this, to have made room for a little impossibility and wonder."
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