Easy to use in a variety of ways, Healing Words is complementary medicine for the mind, body, and spirit that has a history of proven efficacy for people of all faiths on their journeys to healing and wholeness. Every two-page spread is a “chapter” headlined by one of 101 words that relate to healing the mind, body, and spirit as a process or event. The word is followed by a definition, a personal reflection or a story that relates to the healing power of the word, quotes, and an affirmation for the reader to use on his or her healing journey. The quotes include contemporary excerpts as well as words from the sages, plus proverbs, psalms, and more.

Caren Goldman is an award-winning author, retreat leader, consultant, and journalist who specializes in writing about spirituality, psychology, health, religion, and the arts and humanities. Her most recent book from Morehouse Publishing, Across the Threshold, Into the Questions: Discovering Jesus, Finding Self was cowritten with her husband, Ted Voorhees, an Episcopal priest and also a professional writer and retreat leader. They live in Florida and North Carolina.

"Caren Goldman gives us a tool we can purposefully use for the healing of body, mind, and spirit. She is an eloquent, compassionate, and skilled guide who has been there."
~ Larry Dossey, MD, best selling author of Reinventing Medicine and Prayer Is Good Medicine

"In Healing Words, Caren Goldman shows us how to find the profound healing hidden in words that we use every day. A wise and helpful book, based on human experience and transparent to eternal light ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings

"Healing Words is incredibly inspiring and incredibly practical. Whatever your stage of healing, you'll want to refer to this book regularly. It's destined to become a classic in the field of body, mind and soul health and healing." ~ Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"This would be an especially appropriate gift for anyone in need of healing and hope." — Episcopal Life

 
Caren Goldman found her years of research put to the test when she was diagnosed with cancer.  After 25 years of writing about spirituality, health, and psychology, she was forced to look at her specialty from a new perspective. Ms. Goldman, an author, former reporter and freelance writer, had amassed a wealth of information while writing for national magazines about how the spirit and mind can affect health and healing.  But the crises she suddenly faced put the academic information to a real-world test.... The potency of words such as blessing, humor, passion, darkness, grief, and solitude becomes increasingly apparent as the pages are turned. - David Yonke, The Toledo Blade

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Cancer Survivor Goldman Offers 101 Healing Words
On Eve of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

(New York, NY) – Words really can heal.  Perhaps nobody knows that better than breast cancer survivor, popular author and former Cleveland Jewish News assistant editor Caren Goldman, whose acclaimed work is newly available from Morehouse Publishing – well timed for the October observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

Healing Words for the Body, Mind, and Spirit:
101 Words to Inspire and Affirm, by Caren Goldman
978-0-8192-2362-3    $18.00    Paper    240 pgs    5.5 x 7.25    Morehouse
**Review copies, interviews, and excerpts available on request.**

Part of the proceeds from the sale of this new book will be donated to breast and other cancer cause, care, and prevention organizations.

Easy to use in a variety of ways, Healing Words is complementary medicine for the mind, body and spirit that has a history of proven efficacy for people of all faiths - or none whatsoever - on their journeys to healing and wholeness.

Every two-page spread of this beautifully designed and portable book is a “chapter” headlined by one of 101 words that relate to healing the mind, body and spirit as a process or event.  The word is followed by a definition, a personal reflection or a story that relates to the healing power of the word, quotes, and an affirmation for the reader to use on his or her healing journey.  The quotes include contemporary excerpts as well as words from the sages, plus proverbs, psalms, and more.

ACCEPTANCE, BLESSING, BODY, GRIEF, HEART, LIFE, NOW! SMILE, STRENGTH, SURRENDER, WILL, AND WISDOM are just a few examples of the 101 healing words, SABBATH is another, as illustrated in this personal recollection by the author: 

For Ted and me, the word “sabbath” usually means going to Berkana, our vacation home on 15 wooded acres in West Virginia. We dubbed our respite Berkana, because we loved the sound and the sense of this Celtic word meaning rebirth and renewal. From the beginning, we hoped it would be a place where we could spend and suspend time walking, talking, and sitting silently beside still waters that could restore our souls. 

Each “sabbath” at Berkana does renew our bodies and souls. However, it took a visit from my Jewish mother for me to fully appreciate the restorative - albeit healing - nature of “Shabbat,” the holy day that she celebrated weekly.

In my mother's world, time stood still on Shabbat no matter where she was. That meant the first 24 hours of her first three-day visit to Berkana wouldn't be spent exploring breathtaking scenery by car or taking a midnight drive to a vast meadow to see the heavens through my telescope. It also meant we wouldn't be talking on the telephone to those elsewhere. Neither would we be cooking, writing, house-cleaning, chopping wood nor carrying water. We would just be.

At first I worried, “What will we do?” Most of our lives we had been strangers to each other. In recent years we had repaired many of the rents in the fabric of our common lives, but on this visit, 24 hours seemed like a long time to unselflessly, wholeheartedly be - and just be - with my mother.

It wasn't long enough. At sundown, the beginning of Shabbat, we placed beautiful flowers in a vase, lit candles, and said traditional prayers. We ate the simple meal I prepared earlier. And as we talked and talked and talked through the night and into the next day, she took me to places in her past that I never knew about. She introduced me to relatives I never met. She revealed a sense of humor I never appreciated. She spoke truths never before spoken, and she told me she loved me in ways I could never hear before.

My mother died before I could gift her with another visit to Berkana. At Berkana, my mother gifted me with something everlasting - the healing that came when we remembered Shabbat and kept it holy.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caren Goldman, a breast cancer survivor, author, award-winning journalist, and editor, specializes in writing about spirituality, psychology, health, religion, and the arts and humanities. She is the author of four books including Healing Words for the Body, Mind, and Spirit: 101 Words to Inspire and Affirm, Vitality and Wellness: An Omega Institute Mind, Body, Spirit Book, and Across The Threshold, Into The Questions.  For over thirty years, hundreds of her freelance articles about the intersections of spirituality, health, and religion have appeared in national magazines such as Spirituality and Health, Yoga Journal, Body & Soul, Diabetes Self Management and Coping, as well as major metropolitan dailies and weeklies.  Caren is a regular contributor and associate editor of The Bible Workbench, and a former assistant editor of the Cleveland Jewish News.  She also served as adjunct faculty in the mass communications department at Bowling Green State University. Caren jump-started her professional writing career as a news, investigative and features reporter at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  She speaks and leads seminars and retreats throughout the country. When she puts on a different hat, Caren works as a Bridgebuilder conflict resolution consultant and Healthy Congregations facilitator to congregations and nonprofit organizations. She lives in Elkton, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina.  To interview Caren, please contact her at wordsforhealing@aol.com.

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