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The Heart of Health: Embracing Life with Your Mind and Spirit
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MARY I. FARR is a writer, teacher, and pastoral counselor of adult and pediatric patients, families of seriously ill children, families who have experienced a death, and nursing and medical staff in crisis. She also serves as principal of her own health care marketing communications agency, Wordwise. A frequent presenter for conferences and seminars related to health and wholeness, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Health Means Different Things to Different People.

Science Tells Us Many Things but Not the Meaning of Health.

Scientific Medicine Has Many Answers...Not All.

First, We Must Make a Commitment to Care.

Belonging Fosters Well-Being.

Not Belonging Invites Isolation and Loneliness.

To Some, Health is a Value Judgment.

Doctors Need to Remember Their Roles as Healers.

The Doctor Who Healed with Silence.

Sometimes We Expect Too Much from Our Doctor.

Why Spirituality Matters.

Learn to Trust the Power of Plain and Small Things.

Return to Your Senses.

Nourishing the Body Can Heal the Soul.

Why It's Important to Make Time for Community.

The Courage to Cope with Chronic Illness.

Looking for Meaning.

An Issue of Faith.

Hospitality as Gift.

Where Cure and Healing Meet.

Maturity Points Us toward Acceptance.

Gardens as a Source of Healing.

The Role of Spiritual Development in Health.

The Power of Story.

Cultivating the Art of Being.

The Importance of Nurturing Children's Spiritual Life as Well as Our Own.

Doubt and Questioning Can Shed Light on Meaning.

The Heart of Health.

A Reason to Hope.

Appendix.

Source Notes.

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