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Rachel Naomi Remen



Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, is an American professor and author who specializes in integrative medicine. She has directed the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal and is known for documenting the psychological and spiritual impact of cancer on people and their families.

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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal (10th Anniversary Edition)

This special updated version of the New York Times-bestseller, Kitchen Table Wisdom, addresses the same spiritual issues that made the original a bestseller: suffering, meaning, love, faith, and miracles. "Despite the awesome powers of technology, many of us still do not live very well," says Dr.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2006
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Glimpse of a Deeper Order

Synchronicity, says Rachel Naomi Remen in this holiday teaching, can startle us awake and restore us to ourselves.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2020
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A Revolution in Healthcare

According to Rachel Naomi Remen, Integrative Medicine offers the promise of living a good life, even though it may not be an easy life, or even a long life.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
1999
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people.

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Meaning & Beauty

There is a deep connection between meaning and beauty,” says Rachel Naomi Remen. “Neither is a function of the intellect, both can enrich a life, and perhaps we develop an eye for meaning in the same way that we develop an eye for beauty.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2000
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A Time to Find Meaning

“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen
1999
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Rachel Naomi Remen on NBC News - Teaching Doctors to Listen

Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen created a course for first and second-year medical students called the Healer's Art. She teaches that the best practice of medicine is about connecting with your patient, requires more listening than doing, and is about more than a cure.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2013
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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention . . . a loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.

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My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

In My Grandfather’s Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Dr.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2001
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Ordinary Initiations

“I’ve come to think that experiences of initiation are very common, very ordinary, very subtle. They happen to us all as a natural part of living.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen
1999
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