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7 Ways to Keep Your Relationship Strong Despite a Chronic Illness

By Karen Bruno — 2012

Don’t let chronic illness weaken the bond between you and your partner.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships

Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community.

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Sobonfu Some
2000
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine.

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Arthur Kleinman
2019
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David Reilly: Human Healing Unlocked—Transforming Suffering into Wellbeing

From germinating 30,000 year old seeds to the effects of Type II diabetes on the National Health Service, Dr David Reilly MD’s fast paced talk on how to unlock the potential of human healing is both fascinating and touching.

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2017
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Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

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Harriet Lerner
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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery, spanning some thirty years of Dr.

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Jerome Groopman
2005
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Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey

This is a book for any person who is living with a life-threatening illness and for anyone who is caring for and/or loves a person who is ill. Bolen affirms that the price of going into the scary places, of feeling like a piece of green meat on a hook, is high, but worth it. We have no choice.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2007
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Love Expert Reveals Why 80% of Relationships Don't Last | Esther Perel & Lewis Howes

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Esther Perel
2020
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Sound Mind, Sound Body: A New Model for Lifelong Health

In this dramatic new approach to understanding personal health, Dr. Pelletier shows how lifelong good health is far more dependent on a positive, purposeful life orientation than on aerobic workouts and rigid low-fat diets.

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Kenneth R. Pelletier
1995
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

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Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)
2019
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