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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

By Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.

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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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How to Support a Friend Who’s Just Been Diagnosed With a Chronic Illness

Navigating these waters can be intimidating, but it’s so worth it.

Carolyn L. Todd

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How to Support a Friend Who Has a Chronic Illness

If you have a friend with a chronic illness, it’s important to be a source of support for them.

Carol Bradley Bursack

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How to Help a Friend or Loved One Suffering from a Chronic Illness

Learn how to give patients and their families the support they need.

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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery

In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals.

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Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness

A pioneer in the world of mind-body healing, the author provides support and guidance for those living with life-threatening illness, showing how, with the help of support groups, people can live longer and fuller lives.

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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate

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Living in the Limbo of Chronic Illness

Last week was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of my husband’s health crisis. As I gaze at the permanent handicap placard and at him sleeping, once again, on the couch, I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned this past year.

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Kenneth Pelletier: Health and Your Whole Being (Excerpt) - Thinking Allowed W/ Jeffrey Mishlove

What constitutes a balanced lifestyle? How can diet, exercise and stress management combine to produce optimal states of health? Dr.

Kenneth Pelletier

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When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between inhibited emotion and Alzheimer's disease? Is there a “cancer personality”? Questions such as these are emerging as scientific findings throw new light on the controversy that surrounds the mind-body connection in illness...

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