INTRODUCING
WORDS & SWORDS: a series of journaling journeys with Bernie
— poetic thoughts by BERNIE SIEGEL, MD

Here is your chance to sit down with Bernie and write!
Each of Bernie's poems is paired with the space for you to express
your feelings and thoughts—providing an opportunity for healing & growth
... and to laugh a little with Bernie!

The first books in this series are Marriage & Family and Animals & Nature

HOW TO USE THESE BOOKS: Before you go to bed; in the middle of the night, when you can't sleep; or in the morning, fresh from dreams… Bernie is up ahead of you. The light is on at his writing desk. Maybe, amazingly, he's been mulling over the very same thing you've been thinking about.

Or, if your heart hurts, you feel all locked up inside, and don't know what to think, sit down with Bernie and let him talk to you a while. He will stop and be with you, waiting patiently and listening. Listening with love free of criticism and advice. Eventually you will even laugh a little together … the healing and rebirthing will feel so good.

Marriage & Family
by Bernie Siegel, MD
foreword by Larry Dossey, MD
—author of
The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape our Lives
The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

Divorce

Tomatoes don't belong in the refrigerator;
I did it again.
My wife may never forgive me;
our marriage is on the rocks.
I snore, put tomatoes in the fridge,
walk and eat too fast.
The divorce lawyer doesn't know how
to help us reach a valid settlement for my cruelty.
He suggests we try to work it out,
give love a chance,
and don't put tomatoes in the fridge.
I read his settlement to my wife;
she laughs.
I love her when she laughs,
and forget the difficult times.
We fire the lawyer
and take the tomatoes out of the fridge.

Words & Swords:
Marriage & Family
6 x 9 in. Hardcover, hand bound Deluxe Edition— $32.95
Special handmade Thai Mulberry 'press-flat' binding for comfortable writing. Full-color printing and decorative pages, heavyweight journal paper. Archival.

6 x 9 in. Soft cover, hand bound Standard Edition— $14.95
Greyscale printing. Archival.

Animals & Nature
by Bernie Siegel, MD
foreword by Susan Chernak McElroy
—author of
Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections
Why Buffalo Dance: Animal and Wilderness Meditations through the Seasons
Animal Grace: Entering a Spiritual Relationship with our Fellow Creatures

"Please, whomever you are, no matter how broken or hurt or jaded,
read these words that follow, and let them lead you to someone furry.
Someone feathery or slithery. Let them lead you to the true avatars of
healing, who work their art with a look, a shiver, a purr, a cluck,
a breeze, a nostril flaring. Kiss a toad, stroke an elm, and let the healing begin."
—foreword to Animals & Nature by Susan Chernak McElroy

"The next time you don’t know what to do,
ask yourself WWLD: —'What would Lassie do?'
Animals help us create healing relationships,
and teach us to live in the moment. WWLD?
— 'Let's not waste our life time. Lets go out and play!'" —preface to Animals & Nature

Words & Swords:
Animals & Nature
6 x 9 in. Hardcover, hand bound Deluxe Edition— $32.95
Special handmade Thai Mulberry 'press-flat' binding for comfortable writing. Full-color printing and decorative pages, heavyweight journal paper. Archival.

6 x 9 in. Soft cover, hand bound Standard Edition— $14.95
Greyscale printing. Archival.

coming soon in the Words & Swords series — Life & Death, Self & God
(read more about Bernie below)

recommended by Bernie Siegel, MD:
Purple: a parable
6 x 9 in. hand bound Deluxe Edition— $21.95
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper. Thai Mulberry binding and flyleaves. Archival.

"Purple touches the heart of everyone I read it to,
and it has become a part of my lectures.
Purple speaks the essential message to all of us
because we are all children dealing with authority figures." Bernie Siegel, MDust

“Once a woman,
not knowing why,
chased a crinkled piece of paper
blowing across an empty parking lot
and while she waited for her bus
she read the poem
and cried.”

That poem is “Purple”—which was once a postcard “chain-letter” that traveled around the world, and is now an illustrated book rich in color and meaning. This powerful parable touches each person’s creative truth, which can survive even in the face of childhood cruelty. Page-by-page, Diane Katz's illustrations take the reader ever deeper into the inner child's profound experience.

Included in church sermons, educational texts and Bernie Siegel MD's
Love, Magic & Mudpies — this story has lasting emotional impact.

“Mrs. Lohr said that purple was a color for people who died,
that my drawing wasn't good enough to hang with the others.
I walked back to my seat counting the swish swish swishes
of my baggy courduroy trousers.
With a black crayon,
nightfall came to my purple tent
in the middle of an afternoon.”

"Overcoming what an authority figure tells a kid when they are vulnerable… Those adults are basically hypnotists and can alter the course of a person's life. I thought I had no creativity in my bones for years, that everyone else was creative but not me. Then I wrote PURPLE." —Alexis Rotella, author of Purple: a parable, is a poet, ordained minister, acupuncturist, and the author of more than forty books.

Deluxe hardcover and BookCard editions available.
Mail the BookCard to a friend -- like a greeting card!
Send this book to someone you Love.
Red Envelope included!
Purple: a parable
6 x 9 in. hand bound BookCard Edition— $9.95
Handmade Mulberry and Hemp binding. Die cut Softcover.
Bookmark to write your message on and Red Envelope included.
Ready to mail like a greeting card!

Dr Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie,
is the author many popular self-help books including
Love, Medicine & Miracles;
How To Live Between Office Visits;
365 Prescriptions For The Soul;
101 Exercises For The Soul;
Faith, Hope & Healing
and for healthy parenting,
Love, Magic & Mud Pies.
His website is berniesiegelmd.com. Bernie is a powerful advocate of humanizing medical education and medical care. He embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of today's medical ethics and spiritual concerns, breaking new ground in the field of healing.

He is the originator of Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images, and feelings. ECaP is based on 'carefrontation,' a safe, loving therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment, and healing of the individual’s life.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College, with surgical training at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital, and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers, with the goal of humanizing medical education and medical care, empowering patients, and teaching survival behavior to enhance immune system competency.

Bernie lives in a suburb of New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife Bobbie.

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