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Kitchen Table Wisdom

Rachel Naomi Remen

1996336 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1996
first published
  • 1996Riverhead Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781573220422
  • 1997Riverhead Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781573226103
  • 2006Riverhead Books · 379 pages · ENGISBN 9781101655238
  • 2021Bluebird Publishing · ENGISBN 9781529045864
  • 1997Pan Books (an Imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.) · 384 pagesISBN 9780330351539
  • 1997Riverhead TradeISBN 9781573226622
  • 2006Phoenix Audio · ENGISBN 9781597770996
  • 2001Thorndike Press · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780783893402

"Everybody is a story," writes Dr. Remen in her introduction. "When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Despite the awesome powers of technology many of us still do not live very well. We may need to listen to one another's. Stories again." Loneliness is the hidden wound of our time, the price many have paid for embracing such frontier values as independence, self-reliance, and competence. Rachel Remen invites us to see below the surface and remember that we are connected and can become one another's healers. Dr. Remen's unique and intimate relationship with healing and the life force comes from her experience as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of. Chronic illness. Her stories, picked from the tree of life, are dedicated to the ordinary hero in all of us and stand witness to life's natural tendency to heal our wounds. In these remarkable parables, we discover that our goal in life might not be a precise destination, but the ability to travel together with humor and meaning, with purpose and quality companionship, with warmth and tenderness. Kitchen Table Wisdom shows us that a good story is like a compass for. Life's journey, and reminds us of the power and joy of being fully human.

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