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Average rating: 4.76 · 17 ratings · 3 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Two Chambered Heart: A Novella 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape from Urfa by Gail Springer (Goodreads Author), David Stout (illustrator) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’m reading Tirzah Firestones latest book, Wounds into Wisdom, and she has helped me to think more about the two main characters in my own book, Two Chambered Heart. As Dr. Firestone discusses, Diane suffers mental illness from her family’s unspoken histories. She mysteriously loses her parents as a child, and she inherits the trauma of her parents’ losses in the holocaust. Rihan also suffers trau Read more of this blog post »

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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

by David Whyte (Goodreads Author)

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Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability

by Douglas Allen

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Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma

by Tirzah Firestone

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