Dr. Cat's Helping Handbook: A Compassionate Guide for Being Human

It's okay to put yourself first! For thousands of years, social and religious conditioning have encouraged us to always put others first. This complicates the issue of self-care. There are billions of people in the world, so if you always put others first, who will take care of you? This book champions equal rights for self-care. The human heart will never be satisfied with caring only for the self. If you take good care of yourself, you will naturally want to care for others. Dr. Cat's Helping Handbook can help you find your way.

Cat Saunders, Ph.D., is a longtime counselor, death doula, and nonsectarian minister. She is the author of "Dr. Cat's Helping Handbook: A Compassionate Guide for Being Human" and more than 200 articles and interviews, which have been reprinted around the world. Since the early 1970s, Cat has studied a wide array of therapeutic methods, body work and breathing techniques, cross-cultural spiritual disciplines, and creative healing modalities, including art therapy and ecstatic dance. Her doctoral research focused on the "missing link" related to eating disorders and functional neurology. Since 1985, Cat has maintained a private practice in Seattle, Washington, where she works with individuals, couples, families, groups, and small businesses. She also does personal and professional consultation via email and telephone for clients worldwide. Cat has been interviewed on radio and television regarding her anger-work techniques, her series of articles on death, and her role as a death doula and coma worker. In addition, Cat's lifelong devotion to interdisciplinary forms of prayer led her to found Rent-A-Monk, which makes certain aspects of her spiritual work available to others. For more information about Cat's work, please visit her website at .