Help Me to Heal: A Practical Guidebook for Patients, Visitors, and Caregivers: Essential Tools, Strategies and Resources for Healthy Hospitalizations and Home
by Bernie Siegel MD and Yosaif August

"This book can not only change your focus to healing, but can lift you to the high road of a healing environment."—C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, former Surgeon General of the U.S.

Every hospitalization, period of convalescence, or visit to a patient can be an opportunity of healing to occur. Since many hospitalizations are sudden and unexpected, few patients and family members are prepared to act in an empowered way to take advantage of these healing opportunities. Help Me to Heal is a "just-in-time" resource that anyone can pick up and immediately use—to help realized this great healing potential and its readers to turn their bedside environment and illneess experience into a sacred space and time where healing can take place.

When patients, caregivers, and family members are provided with these strategies, they become participants in the healing process. They are then able to communicate their needs to doctors and staff simply and effectively, thereby creating a healing team that enhances patient empowerment and the ability to survive and heal.