A patient-empowering author with a background in Health Information Management and health reporting, I learned how to help my readers from both sides of the hospital bed. I survived emergency brain surgery for a BENIGN brain tumor crushing all the nerves between my head and spine. That endangered my heart's ability to continue beating! Suddenly blind, terrified and dependent on a world-wide serach for the doctor who could save me, I realized that my mindset could buy some survival time. I steeled myself to speak and behave cheerfully despite the pain, fear and unknown before me. It worked! When doctors informed me, after surgery, that I'd be blind for life, I said, "I foresee a beautiful future. I'll prove you wrong!" Read my book to learn how I regained my life, my sight and my laughter against HUGE odds, Filled with can-do strategies you or anyone can use to cope with medical crisis,
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<p>“<em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(</em>Teilhard de Chardin<em>)</em></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;"><em>Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God </em> is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">.</em></p><p>“<em> Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience</em>” (From a reviewer)</p><p>Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other. The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">From the same review “</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.</em></p><p><em>(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)</em></p><p> </p>
I almost died of a benign brain tumor in 2005. Emergency surgery saved me, but vision experts predicted I'd remain blind forever. "Hold that thought," I said, as I walked out the door to the beautiful future I envisioned. Within a year I proved doctors wrong when I recovered my sight against BIG odds. I wrote a 2007 print-edition book about to cope with medical adversity during the recovery period. Entitled "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and Cope with a Medical Challenge" (I'm no genius with short book titles!), it sold worldwide and received praise from medical and mental health experts. Some of my readers are now my E-mail pen pals. The financial fallout of 2008 and my certification in counseling skills necessitated an updated sequel for the book. "EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" is a necessary update for patients in a financially and emotionally devastated world. It tells how doctors jaws have dropped all around me as they observe my health rapidly improving on my personal empowerment plan. The prescription for my eyewear drops so fast and so often that eyecare specialists began crying in joy with me during vision checkups! My can-do coping strategies help in other ways. Medical tests prove that my overall health, muscles and bones are in the condition of woman half my age. I'm younger than my birth certificate!!! Medical and mental health professionals are studying my method and recommend reading my books! Not bad for a woman who almost died of a benign brain tumor of all things! I wrote the 2007 first edition of "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To" as a form of emotional and physical therapy while regaining my sight and physical strength after that devastating benign brain tumor almost killed me in 2005. Shy of the Digital Age, I took my some of my own coping advice, overcame my misgivings, and joined the late 20th century by publishing the 2009 sequel as an E-book. "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" validates your need to cry as a necessary first step in coping with devastating news. Then it teaches you how to manage with the mess that medical treatment, papers and appointments can make of your life. From good food to good books and funny stories from famous historical figures, the manuscript covers how to pack for hospital stays to how to prevent medication mistakes and lots of necessary tactics in between. Mimic me. Cope with medical and emotional adversity regarding your diagnosis. Restore and maintain your human dignity, learn to laugh again, find out how to get what you need, and save money while you do it all. The Global Resources section informs you about free and low-cost solutions for quality medical care. "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" costs less that $10.00.
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">"I received <strong><em><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge</span></em></strong> one week after I suffered my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. [It] will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver… [with] very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles. Ill people are often compromised and often don't know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system. Combined with [the author's] encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency." - <strong><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Daniel Eisenberg, MD, Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicist </span></strong></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.daneisenberg.com/"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">www.daneisenberg.com</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;">What a wonderful book!<span> </span>I am awed... <span></span>In her book: It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge , Golani challenges as well as energizes us all to partner with GD to seek and savor life to the fullest for both our mental and physical health.<span> </span>This book is lifesaving and at the same time emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful...<span> </span> - <strong>Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director, Neuropsychology Unit and Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma<span> </span>(MCE)Team at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel<br /></strong></span></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></strong></p> <p><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br />"</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">What an incredible wealth of information: spiritual, philosophical, psychological, medical, etc! The book is filled with sound ideas and sage advice. I recommend it to everyone!</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">"</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> – <strong>R. Danny Myers, </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Israel<br /></span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></span></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></p> <p><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br />"Yocheved Golani's guide issues a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it. She shows the reader that one 'can;' that even one facing the most grievous of challenges has options and possibilities. A person facing a serious medical threat needs to believe that he or she can, that positivity and determination make a difference. But Golani also sets out a compelling argument for the 'do'. Take action, help yourself, get help from others, strategise, maximise whatever you've got. Do whatever needs to be done to get well and overcome your illness, even when you don't feel like it. <strong>It could save your life. It could save the life of your loved one. It is this combination of the can-positive attitude and the do-positive action that makes this guide so useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be. They are lessons we can't afford to ignore.</strong> Good on you, Yocheved!" – <strong>Life Coach </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Y. Ives</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">England<br /></span></strong></span></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><br />"This book is a blessing. It can help many people to cope with their medical problems, filling them with hope..." - <strong>Lilliane Ritchie, Refuah (Healing) Institute Professional Counselor Training Instructor<br /></strong></span></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></span></p> <p><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><br />"… Golani gives readers helpful strategies and a panoply of resources for fighting medical illness… she also counsels that we use tears to more than simply wallow in self-pity. We can use them to open the Gates of Prayer, as a means of communicating with the Almighty, and to strengthen our bond with the One Who brought the illness in the first place. Through honestly confronting the question of ‘Why Me?’ we can also benefit from the spiritual purpose that illness can serve. We can ask The Master of the Universe to help us transform ourselves into the spiritually developed people that we were meant to become through experiencing these challenges… <em>It’s My Crisis</em> does a masterful job… " - <strong>Dr. Lisa Aiken, Psychologist<br /></strong></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0in -4.5pt 0pt 0in;"></p> <p><font size="3"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"><br />"This book is good. I added it to our recommended book list on </span><a href="http://virtualtrials.com/books.cfm?bookid=47&vote=10"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;">http://virtualtrials.com/books.cfm?bookid=47&vote=10</span></a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;">." - <strong>Al Musella, DPM Founder and Director The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research & Information</strong></span></font></p> <p></p>