A Different Kind of Health: Finding Well-Being Despite Illness
Congratulations on your new book.  It's wonderful.  You have much to be proud of! --Luke Seaward; reader; May 4, 1998I have just begun to readA Different Kind of Health: Finding Well-Being Despite Illness, and I find myself saying, "Yes, that is certainly true" when I read each page.  My older daughter is experiencing what your book teaches - that it is possible to find well being despite illness.  Her "spirit" is in a good place.  Your book is a wonderful gift to the chronically ill or disable.  --Ann Baker; reader; March 25, 1998I read chapter 6 Friday, and then started at the beginning, now up through chapter 4.  What beautiful writing, plus you seem to have found the very core of so many other writers, poets, and thinkers in the quotations.  You are a very learned person, but, even more important, you have great understanding, the spiritual sense. --Gay Robertson; reader; March 25, 1998I read your book on the way home from Houston...I was so impressed with how you authentically presented your vision of true well being.  Your book is a very powerful work of true understanding - born from the personal pain and suffering you share with us.  It takes us farther along with you. --Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D.; Harvard Medical School; March 30, 1998I wanted to let you know that I have almost completed training to work as a volunteer in a hospice in San Francisco, which is utterly surprising to me.  I came to a sudden decision, which felt more like being picked up by a speeding train, that I really wanted to do this work.  I don't know what causes us to wake up one day ready to serve, but I do think your wonderful book helped that day come sooner for me. --Claudia Smelser; reader; April 20, 1998Many will be helped and encouraged by this perceptive book, which challenges many common assumptions about our living and our dying, and suggests how true healing may be sought and sickness and pain redeemed. --The Very Reverend Michael Mayne, KCVO; Dean Emeritus of Westminster Abbey, London; October 31, 1997Thank you so much for giving a wonderful presentation on your book.  We were delighted that you chose the M.D. Anderson Network P.I.K.N.I.C. program to discuss your recently published book,A Different Kind of Health: Finding Well-Being Despite Illness.  The evaluations of your presentation were excellent; to quote some of the participants' responses: "Excellent, informative, helpful, needed by all patients, family members and health care professionals," "I am so happy to have had the opportunity to attend this lecture," and "I really need to hear this..."I believe the topic proved beneficial for many who attended.  Thank you for spending the time to answer individual questions generated by your discussion.  I know that is something the participants really appreciate. --Felicia Gonzalez; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; April 23, 1998This is a book I want all of my patients to read.  I would like them to have it around, to open to any chapter, to think about themselves, their problems and the helpful way Dr. Justice suggests we could think about ourselves, our pains and problems, and our lives.Dr. Justice has taken current thinking and research on health and coping and translated this into understandable language for patients, and I dare say for professionals who would be more understanding about the ways they can be helpful in supporting and counseling their patients.We all will have to cope with threats, traumas, disappointments and challenges to our bodies and lives, and Dr. Justice has offered us ways of thinking about these and seeing positive approaches. --Jock Murray, OC, MD, FRCPC, MACP; Chairman Emeritus, American College of Physicians, Director, Dalhousie Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; February 26, 1998We know first hand what an extraordinary gift you have created in writingA Different Kind of Health.  It became our point of reference in talking with our friend who is so seriously ill with a brain tumor.  It brought healing to all of us as we talked on the salient Points in your book.  And we saw a dramatic transformation in our friend in physical and mental health in that period of time together.Thank you for bringing health and well being to each of us - and to the many who have the joy ahead of reading your book. --Susan and Gene Vaughan; readers; April 9, 1998You have created such an important and deeply personal work, and I will buy it for those who can't and recommend it to everyone.  Each page radiates love and care, and I will do my best to see that it gains the special place, which it deserves. --Jerry M. Kaiser, Director; Health Services Divisions, HeartMath, LLC; April 11, 1998