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Practical Wisdom Books and CDs

This is a list of some of the books and CDs which I have found helpful. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I would go along with all of their recommendations, but these are resources from which I personally have derived some benefit. 

Jan Alcoe Lifting Your Spirits: Seven tools for coping with illness: A Practical Guide with Two CDs (London: The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care, 2009)


Jan Alcoe The Heart of Well-being: Seven tools for surviving and thriving (London: The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care and The British Holistic Medical Association, 2010.

Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing  (includes CD) (London: Piatkus, 2013)

Dr Frances Goodhart and Lucy Atkins The Cancer Survivor’s Companion: Practical ways to cope with your feelings after cancer (London: Piatkus, 2011)

Alice Hoffman Survival Lessons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2013)


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