Books

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Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
by Victoria Sweet. 
Author of God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Yourself,” Kristin Neff.

The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu - "Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment."

Think poetry is just the stuff of middle school nightmares? Give it another try – it just might wake up the other side of your brain. 

Devotions:  The Selected Poems ofMary Olivier by Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

River Flow:  New & Selected Poems by David Whyte

Healing Compassion: Simple and Effective Ways Your Presence Can Help People by Jeff Kane, MD

Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest, Challenges 2nd Edition, by Steven Southwick and Dennis Charney

The Medical Marriage, by Wayne and Mary Soltile

Attending:  Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity, by Ronald Epstein, M.D.

Heal Thy Self:  Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, by Saki Santorelli.

The Resilient Physician:  Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations, by Wayne and Mary Sotile.

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal,  and My Grandfather’s Blessings:  Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging, by Rachel Naomi Remen.

Full Catastrophe Living:  Using the Wisdom of Your Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Crossing the Unknown Sea:  Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, David Whyte.

A Balm for Gilead:  Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts, by Daniel Sulmasy, O.F,M,, M.D.