Books

Laura Fine's book, Laura's New Heart: A Healer's Spiritual Journey Through a Heart Transplant is a fascinating and inspiring book for anyone encountering a major medial issue. It is also an excellent recourse for therapists to recommend to their clients who are dealing with heart disease, a potential heath transplant, or any other life threatening illness. Her fighting spirit and pro-active attitude offer a refreshing perspective for patients facing a medical system that typically treats the patient as a compliant victim. Laura lets us in on her thinking process as she moves through the stages of grief and acceptance that anyone facing a major life trauma might experience. In addition to telling her story, in this book Laura includes journaling opportunities for the reader to self-reflect. At the end of the book, she includes healing affirmations for practical use. Laura's New Heart is an inspiration and lends courage to anyone facing a similar life-changing medical challenge.

Taming the Restless Mind by Laura L. Fine is an excellent book on understand the nature of the mind and how heart centered meditation can help calm it. In just 61 pages, Ms. Fine describes how to meditation. She also includes instructions on how to introduce children to meditation and how meditation can be used to relieve chronic pain. Taming the Restless Mind concludes with a short chapter on affirmations. This book is an excellent resource to use with clients who might benefit from beginning a practice of meditation.