Rachel Naomi Remen is author of The Human Patient, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings: Tales of Strength, Refuge and Belonging. She is medical director and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Center in Bolinas, California. She is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. 

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom, is a professor at the Osher Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Here she highlights the awe and power of the life force — that enables thin blades of grass to grow up through concrete sidewalks.  She emphasizes that we cut ourselves off [...]