Regina Rosenthal - The Heart of Healing: Discovering the Secrets of Self-Care

The Heart of Healing is a valuable guide to the process of healing. Regina wisely explains how a healing process differs from the quick fix of symptom treatment. She describes an ever-evolving path of healing from illness to diagnosis through the bumpy but enlightening road to recovery and growth.

Aminah Raheem, Ph.D

Founder & Spiritual Director

Soul Lightening International

Author of Soul Return and Soul Lightening

The Heart of Healing is a portal inviting all who face lifes inevitable healing challenges to join in a guided but personally owned journey toward wholeness. The abundant resources provided will orient even novices to the use of self-renewal practices. Readers are introduced to the wisdom of Reginas favorite teachers, her challenges and hard-won progress, and compassionate observations of travelers on the path toward healing. Come in, explore, partake, and finally come home to yourself, perhaps for the first time!

The Reverand Dr. Patricia S. Medley

Pastor, Hope Lutheran Church

Freehold, New Jersey

The Heart of Healing will provide you with healing strategies culled from extensive experience, traditional wisdom teachings, and personal stories, woven through with an exceptional, loving attitude. Regina takes readers through the process of healing, from the first shock of being hit by a malady to the slow recognition of the patience and courage needed to recover. I highly recommend this book.

Lydia Salant

M.A., L.AC., Therapist

A timeless, heart-felt and life impacting book filled with powerful stories and lessons to illuminate a path to healing for every reader. Regina speaks to us from a place of grace, wisdom, and integrity. Her work is the North Star for all of us who wish to heal.

Lu Pierro

M.Ed, Ed.S, Grassroots Organizer

Worldwide Holistic Day

As a breast cancer survivor, The Heart of Healing offered me priceless Self-care tools and practices that inspired and awakened the healer within me. It led me on a journey that enabled me to understand the connecting link between my mind, body and spirit my heart and helped me replace feelings of fear with feelings of peace and hope for my future.

Deanna Gallo

This book is invaluable for anyone interested in living consciously from an awakened heart. The tools and reflections in it will help you meet the challenges of being present each moment, and will assist you with making wise, healthy choices. As an acupuncturist with a long-time meditation and journaling practice, The Heart of Healing supported the refinement and evolution of my conscious awareness. It provided me with stepping-stones home to my true nature, my authentic Self.

Betsy Baker

M.Ed., M.,Ac., Licensed Acupuncturist

Reginas beautiful creation is a gift that will assist you with opening to your unique healing journey. The insightful stories and Self-care practices will deepen your awareness, and help you discover pathways to the wisdom within your heart.

Kathleen Rose Schival

Licensed Massage Therapist

Regina Rosenthal has walked through the fire of life and emerged victorious. In The Heart Of Healing she eagerly shares how our pains and celebrations expand our hearts understanding, compassion, and acceptance, and how this leads us to discover our true core of happiness and contentment.

Peggy Jaegly

www.NurtureForCaregivers.com

The Heart of Healing: Discovering the Secrets of Self-Care

Regina Rosenthal, PT, MA

Copyright 2013 Regina Rosenthal

Published by: Dimensions of Wellness Press

Holmdel, New Jersey 07733

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Quotation by Max Depree: Copyright1989 by Max Depree. First appeared in LEADERSHIP IS AN ART published by Doubleday. Used with permission of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency and the author.

First Edition, 2013

Book design by Donna Miller and GKS Creative

Cover Design by GKS Creative

Author photograph by Andrea Phox Photography

ISBN-13: 978-0-9885267-1-6

Library of Congress Catalog Number:2012915477

For all courageous souls who seek to awaken, heal, and remember.

With love and gratitude to Jolie, Mayzie, Noah, and Alec, children of the Light, who heal through their loving presence.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

A s a child, I often gazed up at the night sky, studded with a vast array of captivating, brilliant stars. I was filled with awe. I felt small amidst the beauty and magic, yet knew on some level that I was also connected with it. I can remember praying at these times, with the innocence of a child, Please let everyone be healthy and happy. During these moments I became one with the Great Mystery within the life force that animates the universe, the life force that also animates healing. Though I did not understand the depth and breadth of this until much later, it fascinated me from my earliest days.

Spiritual study, meditation, yoga, and work in the healing arts as a physical therapist deepened my awareness, and I realized that nothing exists in a vacuum. Everything in the universe occurs in relationship within a vast grand design. My personal and professional experiences with healing enhanced my conscious connections within this grand design and revealed:

• We all have an innate ability to respond to healing challenges, an ability that is activated when we connect to the wisdom in our authentic Self, heart, and