Joanna Charnas

Official Website of Licensed Therapist and Author

Living Well with Chronic Illness

100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Ilness

Tips, Tool, and Anectdotes to Help during a Pandemic

A Movie Lover's Search for Romance

BIO

Joanna Charnas spent her formative years in New York City, and Northern California in what is now Silicon Valley. She received a BA from The Evergreen State College and earned her master’s degree from Boston University School of Social Work. Joanna has been a social worker for over thirty years, and currently works in the Mental Health Department of a large California teaching hospital.

Her first book, Living Well with Chronic Illness (MSI Press, 2015), evolved from her career experiences and years as a patient. Her second and third books 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness (MSI Press, 2018) and Tips, Tools, and Anecdotes to Help during a Pandemic (MSI Press, 2020) elaborates on the numerous methods she utilizes to maximize health and wellness. She was a regular contributor on the HuffPost Blog for over two years, and has been published on several international websites. Her latest book, A Movie Lover's Search for Romance (MSI Press, 2020) details her dating experiences in her forties and fifties after her divorce.

BOOKS

LIVING WELL WITH

CHRONIC ILLNESS

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100 TIPS AND TOOLS FOR MANAGING CHRONIC ILLNES

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TIPS, TOOLS, AND ANECTDOTES TO HELP DURING A PANDEMCI

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A MOVIE LOVER'S SEARCH FOR ROMANCE

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ARTICLES

~~Why Art Matters~~

Splash Magazine

~~My Frenemy - The Dishwasher~~

YoursNews.in

~~You Will Dance: Finding Joy At An Indian Wedding~~

YoursNews.in

~~How to Have Sizzling Sex While Chronically Ill~~

Popsugar.com

~~How My Dream Came True But Then I Lost My Mind: The Psychodynamics of Being a New Author~~

The San Francisco Book Review

~~Lasting Love~~

Huffington Post

~~An Unexpected Benefit of Bad Parenting~~

Huffington Post

~~Tumor, Not So Benign~~

Huffington Post

~~Other Families~~

Huffington Post

~~Tumor, Tumor, Tumor~~

Huffington Post

~~Pear Shaped and Proud~~

Huffington Post

~~Love: Marriage, Divorce, and Suicide~~

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~~Dating Deception~~

Huffington Post

~~Saying Goodbye to Dad Through the Mail~~

Huffington Post

~~Letting Go of Control in India~~

Huffington Post

~~Finding Myself Again in Venice~~

Huffington Post

~~Kindness and Bliss at the Ritz~~

Huffington Post

~~Not Again: Living with Selective Perception~~

Huffington Post

~~21st Century Parenting: New, Better, More~~

Huffington Post

~~To Live Well, Do the Banana Dance~~

Huffington Post

~~Phantom Child: Mourning Motherhood~~

Huffington Post

~~Drinking in Miani~~

Huffington Post

~~A Month of Surgeries~~

Huffington Post

~~Ripple Effect~~

Huffington Post

~~Cataract Surgery: Practicing What I Preach~~

Huffington Post

~~When a Mother Dies Young~~

Huffington Post

~~How I Learned to Appreciate Nancy Reagan and Hair Spray~~

Huffington Post

~~My Father's Influence on Managing Chronic Illness: Common Sense and Saliva~~

Huffington Post

~~The Psychiatrist's Role in Treating Unseen Diseases~~

Psychiatry Advisor

~~An Education in Service Dogs~~

Huffington Post

~~Neurological Diversity: Living With a Different Kind of Mind~~

Huffington Post

~~Sex and Drugs, No Rock and Roll: Straight Talk in Group Therapy~~

Huffington Post

~~I Do It My Way: Listening to Our Body's Signals~~

Huffington Post

~~Low Blood Pressure, Stress Management, and the Arminian Dream~~

Huffington Post

~~DO IT IN A GROUP: Group Therapy as an Effective Path to Change~~

SteadyHealth.com

~~Blind To Menopause~~

Huffington Post

~~On Balding and Balance~~

Huffington Post

~~Handicapped What?~~

Huffington Post

~~Learning To Juggle: Orchestrating Your Life~~

SteadyHealth.com

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REVIEWS

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~~Readers' Favorites - A Movie Lover's Search for Romance~~

Splash Magazine

~~Library Journal - A Movie Lover's Search for Romance~~

Splash Magazine

~~NY Tech Mommy~~

~~Splash Magazine~~

Splash Magazine

~~Library Journal - 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness~~

Library Journal

~~Library Journal - Living Well with Chronic Illness~~

~~Psych Central~~

~~Library Thing~~

~~The US Review of Books~~

~~Nayu’s Reading Corner~~

~~The Garden Window~~

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VIDEOS

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~~DIARYOFASMARTCHICK.COM~~

~~Art scene with Erika Funke~~

~~Finding Your Joy~~

~~Kiss the Sky Books~~

~~Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb: Q&A with Joanna Charnas~~

~~Inspirational Women~~

~~Voice America, 2018~~

~~David Snape and Friends~~

~~Voice America~~

~~RadioMD~~

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Joanna Charnas

Official Website of Licensed Therapist and Author

Living Well with Chronic Illness

100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Ilness

Tips, Tool, and Anectdotes to Help during a Pandemic

A Movie Lover's Search for Romance

BIO

BOOKS

ARTICLES

REVIEWS

VIDEOS

Interv

Interviews