Welcoming Cancer, the Uninvited Guest with Dr. Ricki Pollycove

Happy new year and welcome to CancerTalks season 2!

Our guest today is Ricki Pollycove, a doctor who founded San Francisco Integrative Gynecology with a commitment to listening carefully to women’s health concerns, mood issues, and past experiences with health care. She is a mother and now a grandmother of two little girls.

Ricki's Reading List: 

1. Just Diagnosed by Arlene Marie Karole

2. Peace is Every Step and The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh

3. Into the Magic Shop by Jim Doty

4. The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski

5. Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen and Ondrea Levine

6. Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen 

7. The Wounded Healer by Linda Leonards

8. Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

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