Healing Norman

This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and unregenerative - unable to recover from damage or illness. In his revolutionary new book, Norman Doidge turns this belief on its head.

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.

"[E]veryone's health—including that of the next generation—may depend more on the health of society and the healing of nations than on the conquest of disease." Norman Cousins' experience with a massive heart attack is used as a case study in how to mobilize inner resources to overcome fear and panic. He also he generalizes from his experience with life-threatening illness to examine the experience of life-threatened humanity.

Do you live every day feeling countless waves of other people's emotions crashing into you? Do you often feel overwhelmed and need to escape from social situations? We see empathy as a positive, beneficial thing. But what happens when compassion stops being a choice? For some of us, the ability to empathize with others is so strong that it can be overwhelming, confusing, and emotionally draining. While sensitivity usually strengthens interpersonal bonds, extreme sensitivity can become a barrier, rather than a pathway to the connection.

This book was written to help anyone with grief. Grief is the deep sorrow especially that is caused by someone’s death. Through stories of my life, I explain the 5 stages of grief. I tell you what I went through trying to process my grief. It wasn’t until I had lost Stormy and started writing this book that I was finally able to put a title with my emotions.

Listening to Promise in My Pocket, God's Word on the Go is simply a way to keep God's life-changing promises with you as you go through your day. Each edition is a concentrated dose of God's word on a specific theme to remind you of his goodness and faithfulness.