Lessons from the Body: From Physical Illness to Spiritual Wellness

What can your physical body teach you about your spiritual well-being? Plenty! This book is a must read for those who work in the medical field, pastors, students, and anyone who would like to understand the interrelationship between physical and spiritual wellness. Learn how to get well and stay well!

The authors cover topics such as liver disease, emphysema, broken bones, mental illness, obesity, glaucoma, cataracts, atrial fibrillation, thyroid problems, and diabetes. Using the Bible as their reference point, they show how these conditions can help us grasp spiritual concepts that we may have had difficulty understanding in the past. You will learn how to communicate with God, where your conscience comes from and how it impacts your life, how to see spiritually, what it means to be spiritually obese, how the regeneration of your liver relates to your spiritual life, how God protects us, and a host of other spiritual concepts we all struggle with.

Clyde and Jo have their undergraduate nursing degrees from Cornell University and their masters degrees from Yale University. Clyde is a Family Nurse Practitioner; Jos degree is in Maternal Newborn Health. Clyde also has a PhD in Health Education from the University of New Mexico. His doctoral dissertation focused on the relationship between the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of wellness. Through her background as a nurse midwife and school nurse, Jo brings the caring and nurturing aspects of a relationship with God to this book. Having grown up in rural New Mexico, gone to school on the east coast, traveled to India for mission trips, and raised seven children, they are able to relate to others in a variety of walks of life.