Resources

My Publications:

Jake’s Journey: A Sketchbook to Help Children Understand Difficult Emotions. You can find Jake’s Journey at Amazon.com

Hope for the Aching Heart. An article in the Columbia Notebook, 2007: You can click here for the article Hope For the Aching Heart

Links: Professional

• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy-Therapist Locator

• American Psychological Association

• American Heart Association: Go Red for Women

• Collaborative Family HealthCare Association

• The Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research

• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: The HeartTruth

• The National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease: WomenHeart
  

• Cleveland Clinic Heart Brain Institute

• National Business Group on Health: Cardiovascular

Links: Popular

• EmpowerHer;  A Site for Women’s Health

• Mended Hearts

Current and Related Media

His and Her’s Heart Disease – Up To Half of Women May Not Have the “Traditional” Heart Attack  – Web MD

Awareness of Heart Disease as the Number One Killer of Women Continues to Increase, but Women Struggle to Manage Risk Factors – National Institutes of Health

Many Emotions Can Damage Your Heart – MedicineNet.com

My Favorite Books About Emotions and Heart

• The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D.
• The Heart Mind Connection; How Emotions Contribute to Heart Disease and What to do About it. Windsor Ting, MD and Gregory Fricchione, M.D.
• Healing From the Heart; A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future. Mehmet Oz, M.D.
• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
• Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease. Dean Ornish, M.D.
• Mind Your Heart; A Mind Body Approach to Stress Management and Nutrition. Aggie Casey, MS, RN and Herbert Benson, M.D.
• The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing. Mimi Guarneri, M.D.
• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.