Rachel Naomi Remen - My Grandfathers Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

P RAISE FOR

My Grandfathers Blessings

BY R ACHEL N AOMI R EMEN, M.D.

A F INALIST FOR THE B OOKS FOR A B ETTER L IFE A WARD

Through a series of unpretentious, affecting vignettes, the author of the bestseller Kitchen Table Wisdom encourages readers to recognize and celebrate the unexpected blessings in their own lives. She gently illustrates her advice through simple yet powerful stories. [An] exceptional book.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

My Grandfathers Blessings is a lovely, warm, inspiring book for the soul. From the moment you begin reading the first story, you know that once again, Rachel has succeeded in transmitting truths that bring tranquility to the human spirit.

Caroline Myss,
bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit
and Why People Dont Heal and How They Can

This book is a wonder and a gift to the worldwhich it is sure to bless. My Grandfathers Blessings is so full of wisdom, light, and life-changing insight that I found myself reading it slowly, savoring each story, and taking notes so that I could remember that each of us can bless life and thus repair the world just by being ourselves. Let Rachel Remens stories show you how.

Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
bestselling author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom

Rachel is a true genius of the heart, mind, and soul. This is one of the most extraordinarily moving books I have ever read, one of the few that really can transform your life. I am a better person for having read it.

Dr. Dean Ornish

Rachel Remen is both a physician-healer and a masterful storyteller. The stories she tells in My Grandfathers Blessings are simple and profound, with healing lessons for all of us.

Andrew T. Weil, M.D.,
author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health

Rachel Naomi Remen provides us with stories to savor, stories that remind us of the goodness and wisdom that exist in us all. It is a wonderful book, a pleasure, and a blessing to read.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.,
author of The Millionth Circle

A book of great charm and rare wisdom. I felt blessed by these stories.

Sam Keen,
bestselling author of Fire in the Belly

A triumph of the heart. This book actually heals and inspires as you read. It is a treasure house of great love.

Jack Kornfield,
bestselling author of A Path with Heart

Yes! It is true that serving others, out of love, is both the natural response of the heart and the source of its greatest happiness. People will carry this book around with them, keep it next to their beds, memorize the stories, tell them to folks they meet, and Rachels grandfathers blessings will continue to nurture, inspire, and sustain in ever-widening circles of blessing.

Sylvia Boorstein,
author of Its Easier Than You Think

My Grandfathers Blessings is an enduring legacy of the heart. The stories are like pearls strung on a thread of light, and as you read them you will slowly recognize them as your own. Never has a book touched me this deeply. It will be a lifelong source of wisdom and blessing as I read it time and again, sharing the stories with my children and grandchildren. This is the best book I have ever read. You will want to give it to everyone you know.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.,
author of A Womans Book of Life and A Womans Journey to God

This book is a treasure of present moments seized and savored. Rachels wise and loving voice weaves her grandfathers stories and her own into one seamless story that is, mysteriously, really about each of us. Its resonances can soothe and buoy us in even the darkest of moments. Listen deeply as these magical stories of the ordinary enter your heart and heal you and bless you as they celebrate what is deepest and most beautiful in our lives, and so easily missed.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.,
coauthor of Everyday Blessings
and author of Wherever You Go, There You Are
and Full Catastrophe Living

Some books are to be read, others to be saved, and a very few are to be treasured as is My Grandfathers Blessings. This book is a reminder of the generation-to-generation transmission of wisdom that used to be commonplace. The stories and parables are true gems.

Barbara Montgomery Dossey, R.N., M.S.,
author of Florence Nightingale and coauthor of Holistic Nursing

P RAISE FOR R ACHEL N AOMI R EMENS

Kitchen Table Wisdom

A heartfelt call for change as well as a display of compassionate and courageous thinking.

Publishers Weekly

Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is a pioneer in the medicine of the future. With the elegance of simplicity, she shows how physicians can become healers by no longer remaining mere technicians of the human body, but by becoming alchemists of the soul.

Deepak Chopra, M.D.,
author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

Read these gorgeous, from-the-soul stories at the risk of burying cynicism, finding hope, learning a good deal more about life and livingand having a damned good time.

Norman Lear

Rachel Remen is one of the most important women of our time. She is an extraordinary combination of wounded patient and highly skilled physician, an intuitively compassionate healer, who is also a gifted author and dynamic speaker. She has had a life-changing impact on me.

Naomi Judd

Rachel Remen and her work are pure inspiration. Let her stories heal your heart and soul.

Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
bestselling author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom

I loved Kitchen Table Wisdom. When you read this collection of stories, you will find yourself pausing to remember holy pieces of yourself, when you were awed by the Great Mystery, and glimpsed humanitys relationship to divinity, or felt a deep soul connection with another.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.,
author of Crossing to Avalon

A delightfully rich merger of heart-felt love and compassion combined with that quality of mature thought that encourages people to seek the deeper meaning behind the natural dilemmas that make up a human lifetime. Reading this book will only make you feel better, even about the more challenging areas of your life.

Caroline Myss,
bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Readers will find themselves again and again knocking on Dr. Remens kitchen door. Enter. Be welcome. Make yourself at home. This is your kitchen, your table. Come share in this extraordinary outpouring of human wisdom Dr. Remen reveals to us in the mirror of her own boundless heart. Dont let an opportunity like this go by.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.,
author of Wherever You Go, There You Are

ALSO BY RACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D.

The Little Book of Kitchen Table Wisdom
Kitchen Table Wisdom
Wounded Healers (editor)
The Human Patient