The Inner Power Of Healing with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

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Dr. Remen delivers an outpouring of wisdom about healing and the mysteries of life and death in this moving and eloquent interview. She challenges us to "confront the unknown" because people recover from illness for reasons that we don't understand. Remen always asks her patients what they consider to be true about their illness; she has discovered that what we believe influences our health far more than we know. Her insights from over forty years as a physician, as well as her personal experience of living with a chronic disease, will change the way you think and your ability to cope with illness in yourself or your loved ones. Our wounds are "badges of credibility," not of weakness, and Remen reminds us that "it's not necessary to live an easy life to live a good life." Dr. Remen is the medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and author of Kitchen Table Wisdom:  Stories That Heal (Riverhead Books, 1996).  (hosted by Mark Walstrom)

Bio

Rachel Naomi Remen , MD (1938-2026) was a pioneering physician, author, and mind-body medicine teacher. She was Clinical Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF and Professor of Family Medicine at Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine. She co-founded the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and founded the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness and she created "The Healer's Art," a curriculum now taught in medical schools nationwide.

Rachel Naomi Remen’s books include:

• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal (Riverhead Books 1996)
• My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (Riverhead Books, 2000)

To learn more about the work of Rachel Naomi Remen go to www.rachelremen.com

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• The first step in healing -- accepting that you've been wounded
•  Why you don't need to be a doctor to help heal those you love
• Living well, despite your illness
• How what you believe determines how well you become
• The most fundamental tool of healing
• Realizing that we're all wounded
• The difference between being cured and being healed
• The Commonweal Cancer Program
• Including death as part of the healing process

 Host: Mark Walstrom    Interview Date: 5/13/1996   Program Number: 2596