Israela Meyerstein, social worker, discusses her book, “Bridge to Healing; Finding Strength to Cope with Illness,” on Seekers of Meaning Podcast

Israela Meyerstein, a Baltimore-based social worker, discusses her book, Bridge to Healing; Finding Strength to Cope with Illness, on this week’s Seekers of Meaning Podcast.

About the Guest

Israela Meyerstein has been helping families, couples, and individuals for over forty five years with parenting and family relationships, couple issues, coping with separation, divorce, and remarriage, medical illness, fetal loss, spirituality, and healthy personal coping. Israela has an MSW degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work. From 1986-1998 she directed a Family Therapy Training Program at Sheppard Pratt Hospital. Israela has trained professionals of varied disciplines, and has taught Family Therapy in college and graduate level programs.

Israela co-founded the Baltimore Jewish Healing Network, where she co-led Spiritual Study/Discussion groups for patients struggling with medical illness. To further help patients, family members, caregivers, and health care professionals, Israela wrote a book called Bridge to Healing; Finding Strength to Cope with Illness, which has also been translated into Hebrew: Gesher Lemarpeh: Metziat Koach Lehitmoded im Machalah.

Israela’s newest book, Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories about the Spirit of Israel, in honor of Israel’s 70th birthday, is a pride-inducing book about Israel’s many humanitarian tikkun olam efforts. Miracle Nation was written to inspire all ages, from Bar/Bat Mitzvah teens to college-age and adults.

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