Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness

"Bridge To Healing" is just that ... a bridge to healing. Healing and curing are two distinct entities. When you heal your life, your body gets a live message and does all it can to help you to survive ... Cancer is a unique experience for each individual. When you are willing to explore your experience and ask what you are to learn from your journey through Hell, the curse can become a blessing ... Israela Meyerstein shares some of the universal themes one can find in many religions and philosophies which have proven to be effective. She shows us how to heal, find peace, and not wage a war against the cancer enemy and empower it. She shows us how to treat the experience and not just the result. She removes the guilt, shame and blame issues, and like Maimonides, understands that disease is not God's punishment ... What you need to do is seek help by looking for what you have lost: your health. I have seen self-induced healing occur when people had faith, left their troubles to God, and had their cancers disappear. I have learned from exceptional patients about survivor behavior. God loves His children and our healing potential is amazing. So read on and learn from the wisdom of the sages and ages that you are not a diagnosis or a statistic. You are a survivor....Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

About the Author
Israela Meyerstein LCSW-C, LCMFT, has been helping families, couples, and individuals for forty years, treating a variety of problems, including parenting and family relationships, couple issues, coping with separation, divorce, and remarriage, medical illness, fetal loss, spirituality and healthy personal coping. In private practice since 1978, she was recognized in 2001 as a leading mental health professional by Baltimore Magazine.
    Ms. Meyerstein completed her MSW degree in 1973 from Columbia University School of Social Work, followed by a Third Year Fellowship in Social Work at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,Texas, where she was later appointed Faculty Associate in the Division of Community and Social Psychiatry of the Medical School.
     An Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family, Ms. Meyerstein directed a Family Therapy Training Program at Sheppard Pratt Hospital from 1986-1998. She has trained hundreds of professionals of varied disciplines, and has taught Family Therapy in college and graduate level programs.
     Israela co-founded the Baltimore Jewish Healing Network. Together with Rabbi Gila Ruskin, she co-led Spiritual Study/Discussion groups for those struggling with medical illness. Ms. Meyerstein has authored thirty published articles and chapters on couples and family therapy, spirituality, medical illness, remarriage, and therapist training. "Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness" is her first book.