Enjoy Every Sandwich, Lee Lipsenthal
Enjoy Every Sandwich, Lee Lipsenthal
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Enjoy Every Sandwich
Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last

Author: Lee Lipsenthal, Dean Ornish

Narrator: Lee Lipsenthal, Dean Ornish, M.D.

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/2011

Synopsis

This book is a culmination of what I’ve learned. I hope it will open the door for you to embrace your humanity, accept uncertainty, and live a life of gratitude. —from Enjoy Every Sandwich

As medical director of the famed Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Lee Lipsenthal helped thousands of patients struggling with disease to overcome their fears of pain and death and to embrace a more joyful way of living. In his own life, happily married and the proud father of two remarkable children, Lee was similarly committed to living his life fully and gratefully each day.

The power of those beliefs was tested in July 2009, when Lee was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. As Lee and his wife, Kathy, navigated his diagnosis, illness, and treatment, he discovered that he did not fear death, and that even as he was facing his own mortality, he felt more fully alive than ever before. In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie, told with humor and heart, and deeply inspiring, Enjoy Every Sandwich distills everything Lee learned about how we find meaning, purpose, and peace in our lives.

About The Author

LEE LIPSENTHAL, M.D., ABIHM, was an internist, trained in the prevention of heart disease and in integrative medicine. A popular and acclaimed speaker and author, he was the medical director of Dean Ornish's Preventive Medicine Research Institute for a decade and has also served as president of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ciara on February 27, 2012

this book is completely fucking bananas! you think you're just going to read a nice inspirational self-help book about appreciating your life & living each day to the fullest, written by a doctor who was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the esophagus who learned to accept his mortality without givi......more

Goodreads review by Alisonb on May 04, 2012

I hate it when people mock my beliefs simply because they don't understand them. Applying the same courtesy to Lipsenthal, I will refrain from judgment or comments about the New Age tone of sections of this book because truthfully, some of the experiences and beliefs he shares, I have not given much......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 19, 2011

I don't remember how I discovered this title...which is odd since it must have just happened a short while ago: it was just published last month. It could have been in a Shambhala catalog or in the software we use at work to order books for the library or one of the catalogs that continually pile up......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 27, 2018

7/17/2018: started to reread this book. Having donated it o a special library, I ran across it while reorganizing the shelves of that library and found my interest rekindled to go back and read it again... Interesting to revisit a book when I have so many others on my 'want to read' list, but this wa......more

Goodreads review by Will on December 07, 2011

Unless you just happen to have this book fall into your lap I don't think there should be a spoiler alert on this one... you pretty much know early on how this book is going to end. I also want to thank Random House and goodreads for giving me the chance to read this book through it's first reads of......more

Quotes

"Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life’s extraordinary journey."
—Edgar Dean Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

"Often, patients given a terminal diagnosis reach a surprising, transforming conclusion--you have to be ready to die to embrace being alive. But Lee Lipsenthal tells his story with such intimacy and humanity that this paradoxical fact can be accessed even by those who have not (yet) leaned out over the abyss. To deny death is to deny life. Read Enjoy Every Sandwich to know why."
--Andrew Weil, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Healthy Aging and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
 
"This book is about the lessons one learns on the journey from understanding the experience of life and all its difficulties. It contains the profound wisdom derived from the greatest teacher, our mortality. So read on and learn how to spend your life's precious time with more love and less fear."
--Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author of Peace, Love & Healing, and Love, Medicine & Miracles
 
"With courage and candor, Dr. Lee Lipsenthal shows us that facing death means facing life: Your own, and the lives of those around you. After his stunning diagnosis of an often-fatal cancer, Dr. Lipsenthal embarks on a journey of bravery, practicality, and humor to guide his way through the greatest of uncertainties. He allows us in, during the dark days and the brighter ones. Let Dr. Lipsenthal be your guide on a journey that, ultimately, all of us will take."
--Clint Eastwood
 
“What if you were not afraid to die? What if the universal fear that makes us small was suddenly gone and you were free? How would you live then? Lee Lipsenthal's beautiful memoir of the first 18 months of his journey with cancer reads at times as a prose poem, at times as a wisdom story and at times as an invitation to the Dance. To read it is to step through a door that opens only one way into a larger life. Of all the books you've read this year, this is the one that will heal you.”
--Rachel Naomi Remen MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings
 
"If you want to learn to love with your whole heart, so that when you come to the end of your life you will have no regrets, Lee Lipsenthal's gracious and caring book is for you. In revealing his own struggles, and doing so with remarkable transparency and responsibility, Lee has not just written a book that is filled with grounded inspiration and hard-earned wisdom. He has written a book that you will never forget."
--John Robbins, Author of Diet for a New America, Healthy at 100, and The New Good Life

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