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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2010
MichaelOrtizHill.com
Conspiracies of Kindness: The
Craft of Compassion at The Bedside of the Ill by Nurse Michael
Ortiz Hill is Released by Hand to Hand Publishing in November 2010
Los Angeles, CA - Michael Ortiz Hill, author and registered
nurse, writes about self compassion, compassion for others,
radical empathy, and how to manifest compassion, in his highly
praised new book Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of
Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill, now in release by Hand
to Hand Publishing of Topanga, CA (paperback, $16.95, 159 pages,
ISBN 978-0-9720718-6-4). The book is intended for health care
professionals, hospice workers, clergy, and lay people, and is
considered an essential companion for anyone now or ever called to
the bedside of the ill. It is available at Amazon.com and
BarnesandNoble.com and at the author’s web site
michaelortizhill.com in both soft cover and as an e-book.
Ortiz Hill’s book, based on his workshops on The Craft of
Compassion, has been acclaimed by best-selling author Larry
Dossey, MD, who wrote “this luminous book can change your life.”
David Forbes, MD, President of the American Holistic Medicine
Association writes it is “chock full of beautiful, elegant
wisdom.” Physician Kjersten Gmeiner adds, “Michael is a gifted
teacher. The idea that compassion is a teachable craft with
skills to be practiced brings it from the mystical into the daily
world, which of course is where we all need it.”
“From his
own experiences as a nurse, Ortiz Hill creates a web of achingly
beautiful stories that brilliantly show us how richness,
compassion and wisdom can arise while encountering the most
challenging circumstances of severely ill and dying patients in an
institutional setting,” states Hand to Hand publisher Stephan
David Hewitt who also created the book and cover design.
Hand to Hand Publishing is a community based endeavor that
supports independently published works and public events, free
from restrictions that arise from commercial and political
concerns. It is a forum for artists who are in dynamic and
reciprocal relationship with those communities for the sake of
peacemaking, restoring culture and the planet. The publishing web
site is handtohandpublishing.com.
Ortiz Hill previously
authored other well regarded books – Dreaming the End of the
World: Apocalypse As a Rite of Passage, and with Mandaza
Kandemwa Twin From Another Tribe: The Story of Two
Shamanic Healers from Africa and North America. Also with Mandaza,
The Village of Water Spirits: The Dreams of African-Americans.
Sacred Illness Sacred Medicine, co-written with his wife
Deena Metzger, looks at his passage through and healing of his
“incurable” multiple sclerosis. More information on Ortiz Hill,
plus info on other wellness resources, can be found at
michaelortizhill.com.
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