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  <about><![CDATA[In 1940, at the age of six, Andrew Bienkowski and his family were banished to Siberia from their Polish homeland. The following years were harrowing, but had magical moments, and the life lessons learned in Siberia have influenced his entire life. The family were evacuated to Iran, then moved via Palestine to England and to the US, where Andrew joined the air force, before training as a psychologist. He has spent more than 40 years as a clinical therapist. Retired in upstate New York, he still has a small clinical practice and teaches courses. <br/><br/>He is co-author of RADICAL GRATITUDE: Life-Changing Lessons From Siberia with Mary Akers.<br/><br/>]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Radical Gratitude and other life lessons learned in Siberia]]>
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    <![CDATA[Self help is only the beginning of the journey - to progress, we move beyond this to help others. Andrew Bienkowski learned this as a young Polish boy at the age of five when, exiled with his immediate family, he watched his grandfather starve to death so they could survive. Reminiscent of Viktor Frankel's great classic, Man's Search for Meaning, this extraordinary book moves back and forth from the family's terrible journey of survival in Siberia, to how to become a person who can give to others.<br/><br/>Each chapter details powerful ways to achieve this with such concepts as radical gratitude (learning to be grateful, even for the difficult experiences in life), who we can and cannot help, genuine being with others in need, and the remarkable changes that we can experience when we do.<br/><br/>The feel of this book can best be summed up by Churchill's famous saying - 'We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.']]>
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    <![CDATA[The Greatest Gift: Lessons Learned in Exile in Siberia]]>
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    <![CDATA[Most books that give advice on how to live talk down to the reader. This one treats her as an intelligent collaborator. The form of The Greatest Gift is also unusual: it is half literary nonfiction, half lessons from a man who has spent a lifetime counseling patients on how to approach their emotional problems. Andrew Bienkowski is the therapist; Mary Akers is the writer who creates the evocative accounts of Beinkowski's family's horrific experiences in Siberia, where it was exiled for imaginary crimes during Stalin's regime. There are even photographs that bring home the hard-to-believe reality of Beinkowski's past.]]>
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    <![CDATA[One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others]]>
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    <![CDATA[In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was banished to Siberia with his family. With virtually nothing to see them through their first winter, his grandfather chose to starve in order to give his family the chance to survive. The years that followed were harrowing and difficult — but warmed by the generosity and quick-wittedness of his mother and grandmother, the kindness of strangers, and the beauty of the landscape, Andrew's childhood in Siberia established his essential approach to life. Having survived the two-year period of exile, Andrew Bienkowski became inspired to give back, devoting his life to helping others through his work as a psychologist for the state of New York. With One Life to Give, Andrew Bienkowski underscores how the greatest fulfillment we can achieve as human beings lies in helping others. ]]>
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