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." (hosted by Mark Walstrom)

Bio

Dr. Remen is the medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program.

She is the author of:

• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal (Riverhead Books, 1996)

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• 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