MY BOOKS
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TIME TO HEAL: Better me, better world, through the astonishing new science of self-healing.
What if the worst that that ever happened to you could simply be erased from your life? This is the promise of the latest findings in neuroscience: the brain DOES have a delete button! Moreover, the Havening Techniques® used to activate this self-healing mechanism are rapid, gentle, and effortless.
In clear and simple language, illustrated with many reaal-life examples, Dr Youngson shows how lives can be transformed, including his own experience of healing from abandonment and abuse. He explains how the healing techniques are used and where you can get help from hundreds of practitioners around the world.
Author, Robin Youngson is an award-winning doctor, trauma therapist, campaigner, author and health leader. Internationally renowned for his pioneering work on compassionate healthcare, in 2016, he was given the highest award of the New Zealand Medical Association, for outstanding contribution to the health of New Zealand.
“Congratulations on your fabulous book. It’s an easy read with great information expressed clearly and with the depth of neuroscience to back it up.” – Petrea King, CEO of Quest for Life
“Wonderful book. A must read for those in the healing arts. Thank you Robin Youngson!” – Ronald Ruden MD, developer of Havening Techniques
“Thanks to my new friend, Dr Robin Youngson, for bringing Havening touch into my life.” – Heather Plett, author of ‘The Art of Holding Space’
From HERO to HEALER: Awakening the inner activist.
If you are a social or environmental activist, reading this little book might be the best investment you ever make.
Here’s the question: Despite our persistent efforts, and high-profile campaigns involving millions of people, why are we not making more progress on social and environmental issues?
Instead, we are witnessing more poverty, more inequality, more chronic disease, more social breakdown, worsening pollution, and ever-increasing carbon emissions.
Could it be that the strategies we employ as activists are actually sustaining the problems we’re trying to address?
With touching honesty and humility, Youngson shares the five biggest mistakes he made in a decade of campaigning, and how his counter-intuitive new strategies led to international success.
“Powerful, insightful and life affirming. A recipe to empower each of us to be change makers not only of ourselves but of the world.” – James R. Doty MD Bestselling author of ‘Into the Magic Shop’.
“Brilliant, poignant, important… fundamental to building the next generation of leaders.” – Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
“This book is a gift for us. Robin shows us how to confront our own wisdom and ways of doing things, to consider and embrace a new path of possibilities. Truly the book is a winner.” – Marilyn Turkovich, Director, Charter for Compassion.
“The very heart of UPLIFT spirit, beautifully expressed in your wonderful book.
Already sharing it all over with great joy.” – Bharat Mitra, Founder UPLIFT
TIME TO CARE: How to love your patients and your job
In today’s beleaguered healthcare system, burdened with epidemic levels of stress, depression and burnout, TIME to CARE offers health professionals the opportunity of renewal. Here are the secrets to building a happy and fulfilling practice, wellbeing and resilience.
Youngson bravely relates his own transition, from a detached clinician to a champion for humane whole-patient care; at times poignant, sometimes funny but always brutally honest.
TIME to CARE offers a deeply compassionate and insightful account of a health system that is failing both patients and practitioners all over the world. But there’s more….
Drawing on advances in neuroscience and positive psychology, and tapping the power of appreciative inquiry, Youngson conveys in clear and simple language how health workers can strengthen their hearts, learn the skills of compassionate caring, and rise above institutional limitations to transform patient care – and rediscover their vocation.
Tipped to become an international best-seller, TIME to CARE is recommended reading for today’s health professionals, students, health leaders, patients, and all those passionate about re-humanizing healthcare.
“If you only read one book about healthcare in your lifetime, whether you are a patient or a professional, let this be the book.” – Michael Brophy, Irish Society for Quality and Safety
“Well researched, beautifully written and deeply inspiring this is one book I would recommend all clinicians to read at the beginning of their careers and constantly revisit many times throughout.” – Professor Paul Gilbert, OBE, author of ‘The Compassionate Mind’
“At the critical interface between patient and health professionals TIME to CARE offers some extremely constructive ways of salvaging care in current frenetic health service environments.” – Professor Jenny Carryer, Executive Director, New Zealand College of Nurses.
“Youngson speaks with great wisdom and authority as a highly trained clinician and senior health leader who has extensively researched the literature on compassion, leadership and positive psychology; however, it is his experience as a compassionate human being that shines through the pages of this book.” – Marc Cohen, Professor of Complementary Medicine RMIT University.
“TIME to CARE offers many practical ways to embody change and a real sense of hope for a brighter future. TIME to CARE shows us where the light switch is – all we have to do is act.” – John Kearsley, Professor of Medicine (Conjoint), at the University of NSW and University of Wollongong.