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How to Be Sick
A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
This book is about:
- Chronic diseases,
- Caregivers,
- Chronically ill,
- Buddhism,
- Religious aspects,
- Religious life
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Learning To Live A Full Life With Chronic Illness
January 31, 2011 Toni Bernhard, author of How to Be Sick, struggled with the isolation that came with a chronic illness diagnosis. But her study of Buddhism taught her how to embrace a new life rather than dwell on her old one.
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