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With emphasis on its spiritual and religious dimensions, Apprenticed to Hope: A Sourcebook for Difficult Times, is a compelling compilation of thirty-two essays exploring the nature of hope. Julie Neraas draws from a wide range of sources, offering many different ways to think about hope. She considers hope's relationship with faith, the human imagination, and community; distinguishes authentic hope from optimism and false hope, and draws upon her own experience with chronic illness, as well as...

When people are seriously ill or injured, they receive immediate and often life-sustaining treatment. Then at some point they are usually left to their own devices to "finish" healing. At the time that patients are discharged from treatment or their doctors tell them, "I don't have anything else I can offer you", they are often shifted into a zone where they are better than at their sickest point, but not as healthy as they once were. This zone, between illness and good health, is where rehabili...

In 1999, Bronx-born plumber Tommy Rosa died in a hit-and-run incident. Lying by the road, he felt a tug whisking him off into a tunnel of light to meet his Divine Teacher in Heaven. After several weeks in a coma, Tommy returned to Earth with a new, heightened sense of connection to the other side. Around the same time, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, an integrative cardiologist, was dismantling the prevailing ideas of preventive pharmacology with his holistic approach to treatment. When a chance meeting...

Dr. Hollis is the author of the national bestseller, Fat Is a Family Affair with over 500,000 copies sold. . Has over forty years of experience in family therapy and treatment of addiction and eating disorders. . Opened the nation's first eating disorders unit. . Her articles on weight loss/management have been published n Shape, Teene, Self, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and numerous professional journals. Part memoir, part how-to, this book addresses the growing obesity epidemic in the US in a humorous...

Identifying "energetic boundaries" through which our psyche and spirit shield out harmful influences, a guide to tapping the power of spiritual boundaries to connect the soul to the universe explains how to promote positive experiences, optimal health and balanced relationships. Original.