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    Joanna Charnas

    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

    Huffington Post

    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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    Interv

    Conscious Talk Radio

    Authority Magazine, 5 Things You Need To Know to Survive and Thrive After A Divorce

    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

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