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Bridge To Healing: Finding Strength To Cope With Illness

Mazo Publishers

Israela Meyerstein is a licensed clinical social worker and family therapist who has had a private therapy practice in Baltimore for almost 40 years.  She is the co-founder of the Baltimore Jewish Healing Network, and she’s written a book about the role that spirituality can play when individuals and families confront a serious medical challenge.  The book is called Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with IllnessIsraelaMeyerstein is herself a cancer survivor, and her book is, in part, a chronicle of her experience with her disease, as well as observations about the emotional component of being a patient. Today, she joins host Tom Hall in the studio to talk about her new book.

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