Inner Peace for Busy People: 52 Simple Strategies for Transforming Your Life - Softcover

How did a Harvard trained medical scientist become a mystic? In reality, it was the other way around. At the age of 10, Joan experienced 6 months of an alternate reality, what modern psychiatry would label psychosis and obsessive compulsive disorder. One day, while praying fervently for help, all fear and confusion parted to reveal a luminous reality of exquisite love, surpassing peace, and practical wisdom that guided her to an almost instantaneous recovery. Her journey to hell and back birthed a lifelong fascination with healing, the roots of consciousness, and the realm of Spirit. Weaving together biology, psychology, and spirituality in a credible, accessible way is her soul's purpose. Joan's doctorate is from the Harvard Medical School where she subsequently completed postdoctoral fellowships in cancer cell biology, psychoneuroimmunology, and behavioral medicine. In 1987, her New Times bestseller, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (revised in 2007 for it's 20 year anniversary edition) described the program of mental and physical healing that she and her colleagues pioneered at a leading Boston hospital. She has authored or co-authored a dozen other books about healing, inner peace, and the spiritual journey, along with numerous audio programs and guided meditation CD's. Joan is also a licensed psychologist, a journalist, a renowned inspirational speaker, and a television personality.

A Harvard-trained psychologist and medical researcher, the author is best known for her work in mind-body medicine. She's also a recovering perfectionist whose current audio is a charming collection of studio and seminar recordings on how to develop more personal balance: Listen to music, take time off every week, pay attention to what you need, and lower your expectations. When things don't go well, don't take it personally, generalize it, or believe it will be a permanent problem. It's sound advice, delivered with an endearing homespun chattiness that will be hard to resist. By the end of the program, Borysenko has become part of your support group, and the kind of mentor and friend every overachiever wants. T.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine