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Summary: Healing of the soul can occur with or without a medical cure
Review: As a hospital chaplain I daily witness the wonders and limitations of medicine to cure. Dr. Remen's insights into the difference between healing and curing have a profound impact upon how we can practice medicine from the heart and as well as medically. Kitchen Table Wisdom needs to be required reading for every health care practitioner who daily steps into the mystery of life and power of healing. When patients leave our stewardship whatever their prognosis Dr. Remen reminds us that we can have a 100% healing rate when we connect our stories of healing with those we serve.
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Summary: Beautifully written book of traditional wisdom and heart.
Review: Dr. Rachel Remen's "Kitchen Table Wisdom" is a significant contribution to personal and societal well-being. Her stories recapture an important source of wisdom and simplicity.
Dr. Remen stresses the importance of communication to individual
and community health with a comfortable style and without
sermon. Stories That Heal leaves a candle in the window for millions
of isolated, lonely people. It gives the reader hope for
healing an ailing society and it accomplishes this with ease
and sincerity. This book is a must read - repeatedly.
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Summary: This book rocks
Review: For a book that talks of chronic and incurable illnesses, this book is very uplifting in the most lighthearted way. Most books of dying beat you down with it's heavy handedness. This book is a keeper for my bookshelf and I will continue to re-read it and suggest to all I know. I'm ordering some more copies to pass around
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Summary: Simple, Wise, and Healing
Review: I agreee with the person who said every doctor should read this. Especially poignant were the stories about doctors who found their humanity.
This is one of those books that you underline every other paragraph because of the profound wisdom expressed so simply. Definitely a keep-on-the-nightstand book. You can jump in anywhere and get inspired, touched, and enlightened.
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Summary: One of the BEST books I've ever read
Review: I am a physician so perhaps this book affects me in a different way than some people, however, I believe that anyone who reads this book will come away from it changed. It is about healing in ways that go beyond what we know as fact. It goes beyond life, will, and faith. There is an intermingling of the human spirit/soul with the human condition that she is so able to help us grasp. This book truly enriched my life.
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Summary: Thoughful, touching
Review: I am a primary care physician and this is a book I will keep around. I recently reread many of the pieces and was again moved and reminded of how to care for my patients with an open heart, and why it matters that I do. Thank you, Rachel Naomi Remen.
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Summary: Life affirming
Review: I first read this book when it was given to me as a gift and again more recently as I went through a difficult time in my life. Both times I was struck by the true stories, beautifuly and simply related, that demonstrate over and over our own capacity to improve our lives and the lives of those around us. Dr. Remen's medical credentials combined with her own history as a patient give her a deep understanding of healing and disease from both sides. I would recommend this book especially to anyone who is suffering from a physical or emotional illness. But even more so, I recommend it to the doctors out there who realize that your patients are more than just a compilation of symptoms and who are looking for a better way to relate to them.
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Summary: The book I would take to a desert island...
Review: I have been a reader and collector of books on the subjects of healing and wellness for years. This is extraordinary. This is a book I will be enthusiastically recommending to my patients, friends, and colleagues. Without a doubt my favorite, a must read for all those on the journey toward healing in all it's manifestations. Or just on the journey of life. Read this book. You will return to it again and again.
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Summary: a book to have and to give
Review: I keep this book at my bedside and read it over and over again. It's saved my life. It has that familiar ring of truth: as something I once knew long ago but have forgotten--and need to be frequently reminded of.I give this book to everyone I love.
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I like to read mostly just before bed, so for this nightowl I am usually reading pretty late after midnight. Sometimes I find a book I just can't put down, I like those kind. Since it is the beginning of a new year according to western calendar anyway, I find the book by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Kitchen Table Wisdom - Stories that Heal very appropriate for this time of year. I must say the title was the hooker but as I get more into the book, I see it is really much, much deeper than any talk that has ever gone on around my kitchen table. The chapters are rather short & sweet with stories of humanity & love, growing experiences, healing & yes even death experiences all of which end in a message for the reader to ponder on. I don't mind writing in books I buy, you know good spots where I want to come back to later or that I want to remember, & this book is turning out to be filled with those pencil marks! When the author herself makes a personal discovery regarding her life & her soulful purpose, she states "Although I could be analytical & pragmatic, by nature I was an intuitive, even a mystic. I was my grandfather's granddaughter, I had remembered & I was going home. .." It was at this point the author moved from her traditional medical career, into the mind/body health field & we are grateful for her inspiration.
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