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Health & Fitness Alternative Therapies

Healers at Work

First Hand Accounts of the Difference Alternative Healing Makes

by (author) Peter Downie

Publisher
Wood Lake Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1996
Category
Alternative Therapies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781551450803
    Publish Date
    Jan 1996
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770642799
    Publish Date
    Sep 1996
    List Price
    $7.49

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If you're fed up with promises or gimmicks or miracle-cure schemes, then you're ready for Healers at Work.

Join well-known broadcaster Peter Downie as he interviews 11 healers who reveal why and how they practice their healing arts.

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Excerpt: Healers at Work: First Hand Accounts of the Difference Alternative Healing Makes (by (author) Peter Downie)

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This kind of healing is about reaching an emotional, physical, and/or spiritual equanimity with the demands and complexities of modern life in North America. It's a healing which takes for granted the elaborate interconnectedness and value of the heart and soul and mind and body all striving together to reach that elusive moment of a true and profound sense of well-being. It's a healing which battles against what writer and philosopher Sir Laurens Van der Post calls the modern crisis of feeling "unknown in the universe." This is a healing which connects us not only to those we love, but also to life, with all the joy and sadness and mystery it contains.

 

Rochelle Graham: "It's my life work. This is no longer a job for me and I don't mean that lightly. What's fascinating for me is that I've been in and out of churches all my life, but I never would have considered myself someone who would have called this a ministry. And yet, that's what I now call this; this is a ministry of healing for me. I have said I will go wherever I'm called, and that's what I do."

Editorial Reviews

Peter Downie is a rarity among interviewers. He comes to you seeking to learn and in his quest for knowledge he gets the information across to the listener. He insists that you explain precisely why you hold the views you do and doesn't accept glib generalities for answers. He does all this with probing intelligence.

Charles Templeton, Journalist and Author

Those searching for wellness that goes beyond traditional medicine will find Healers at Work a timely and thought-provoking book...

Michael McAteer, Freelance Writer