Author: halmartin

  • Zen and the Art of Illness: Surrendering to the Moment

    Zen and the Art of Illness: Surrendering to the Moment

    This real-life account of the journey of two people through the experience of life threatening illness speaks to the challenge of surrendering to the moment. Using brief, poignant vignettes, some with photographs, the author shares their story of hope, uncertainty, and love.

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    Reviewers have commented:

    “This eloquent book will touch your very core…You will witness how one keeps hope alive at the edge of death and how one can co-habit with uncertainty.”~
    (Kaye Herth, Dean Emeritus, Minnesota State University)

    This book offers hope and a voice for those who are walking the path of suffering. It invites people living the experience to live in the moment and it shows by example, ways it can be done.
    (Sharon Moore, Professor, Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Athabasca University)

     

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  • Finding Hope: Ways to See Life in Better Light

     

    There is something mysterious about hope. You can be in dire straits and have a great deal of hope. You can have everything going your way and have little or no hope at all. As Jevne and Miller explain in this book, hope has a powerful effect upon your life. After explaining what hope is and is not, they describe how it works and offer twenty-two specific ideas about how to find, keep, and build hope in one’s personal life. The book is designed to be not just about hope but to be an experience of hope itself. It contains many insightful quotations from the ages as well as black and white photography that is hopeful in effect.

  • Hoping Coping and Moping: Handling Life When Illness Makes It Tough

    Hoping Coping and Moping: Handling Life When Illness Makes It Tough

    When someone learns that they are seriously–even terminally ill, their first thought is, “Why me?” Dr. Ronna Jevne offers practical, sometimes humorous and always on-the-mark suggestions for moving beyond self-pity and towards feeling better. She’ll help you look at the effects physical suffering and illness have on your body, mood, energy, emotions, spirit, loved ones and overall quality of life.

    More importantly, Dr. Jevne provides solutions for assisting recovery, promoting a positive attitude, and honing one’s coping skills. Everyone who faces a life-threatening illness or a chronic condition–as well as those who work or live with someone who is seriously ill–will find comfort and hope within these pages.

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    Ronna Jevne

  • It All Begins with Hope: Patients, Caregivers & the Bereaved Speak Out

    It All Begins with Hope: Patients, Caregivers & the Bereaved Speak Out

    We are all in need of hope. Hope is key to survival. But what exactly is hope? Where does it come from? How can we recognize it? How can it be enhanced? How can it help?

    Through intimate first-person accounts, photographs, and reflective insights, Jevne reveals hope in hiding. Anger and tears, laughter and prayer, solitude and community emerge as proof of the profound resilience of the human spirit.

    An inspiring, supportive book for all, including those who live or work with life-threatening illness – patients, nurses, doctors, hospice workers, friends, and family members.

    Endorsed by Norman Cousins, Joan Borysenko and other leaders in the mind/body movement.

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    Ronna Jevne

  • No Time for Nonsense: Getting Well Against the Odds

    No Time for Nonsense: Getting Well Against the Odds

    No Time for Nonsense is a classic. Norman Cousins described it as a “practical down-to-earth guide that will help patients carry out their part of the patient-physician partnership. Others have described it as a source of “hope, help and humor” written with “wit and wisdom.” Written by two experienced professionals, a psychologist and an oncologist, it combines years of experience with cancer patients.

    Now years after it was written, the challenges of cancer patients have changed very little. Jevne and Levitan identify the skills and attitudes that help navigate life-threatening illness including perspective-taking, information-gathering, communication strategies, accessing resources and dealing with feelings. The text is alive with real issues and real examples. Grace Christ (of Memorial Slow-Kettering) comments, “A very useful and creative approach to living with serious illness. This book conveys great sincerity and honesty from the perspective of two people who have ‘been there.’” (more…)

  • The Voice of Hope Heard Across the Heart of Life

    The Voice of Hope Heard Across the Heart of Life

    Psychologist/professor Jevne has been fascinated by hope and the attempt to understand how it develops and is strengthened through the many “voices” of everyday living. Through autobiographical narrative incidents, Jevne articulates the voices of mother, family, school, intimacy, illness, the “other,” and the Other. Throughout, she finds sustenance from people who care, from community, and from those who seek her help-such as the dying woman who asks Jevne-the-psychologist to pray for her. The Voice of Hope is a clear, simple, yet profound book. It has been recommended for public libraries.

     

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    Ronna Jevne

  • When Dreams Don’t Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout

    When Dreams Don’t Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout

    When Dreams Don’t Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout presents a fresh perspective on burnout. This book examines the origins and qualities of the dreams (visions) of professional caregivers and the ways those very qualities are risk factors for burnout. When Dreams Don’t Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout also looks at the institutions in which professional caregivers (medical, educational, pastoral, law enforcement, and firefighting) invest in their professional dreams, and how those institutions contribute to the burnout process.

    Presently available on Amazon. Second (and more reasonably priced) edition is in the making. (more…)

  • Striving for Health: Living with Broken Dreams

    Striving for Health: Living with Broken Dreams


    Striving for Health: Living with Broken Dreams (temporarily out of print)

     

  • Bookstore

    Books
    Living Life as a Writer
    Tea for the Inner Me: Blending Tea with Reflection
    Images and Echoes: Exploring Life with Photography and Writing
    Celebrating Sixty: Impulsive Meditations on more than Six Decades
    Zen and the Art of Illness: Surrendering to the Moment

    Other books by Ronna
    Over the years Ronna has authored or co-authored numerous books, some of which are available on Amazon.com or eBay.com.

    Finding Hope: Ways to See Life in a Better Light
    Hoping, Coping and Moping: Handling Life When Illness Makes It Tough
    It All Begins with Hope: Patients, Caregivers & the Bereaved Speak out
    No Time for Nonsense: Getting Well Against the Odds
    The Voice of Hope Heard Across the Heart of Life
    When Dreams Don’t Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout.

    Guides
    Guiding Client Writing

    Memorabilia

  • The Inner Author: Writing with the Inner Me

    Presented by

    Dr. Ronna Jevne & Hal Martin
    Prairie Wind Writing Centre

    Whether you write the occasional poem, pour your heart out onto the pages of a journal or have a project in mind or underway, The Inner Author is the writing getaway you may be looking for.

    -recognize your unique gift and purpose as a writer

    -banish your barriers

    -honor your writing style and process

    -reap the rewards of risking writing

    Enjoy a retreat setting, a touch of pampering and an exchange of ideas about writing with others in an encouraging atmosphere. Bring that unfinished manuscript or that developing idea.

    Get to know your inner author. Enjoy uninterrupted time to devote to your writing, with or without guidance and/or feedback. A one day version of The Inner author is also available.

    Date, time, place: TBA

    Please indicate your interest by filling out the registration form at the bottom of this page.

    Fee: includes board and room, materials and participants will receive a signed copy of Living Life as a Writer by Ronna Jevne.

    Register for the next “The Inner Author: Writing with the Inner Me”

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