The Comfort Book

by Jane Seskin

Psychotherapist, social worker and writer Jane Seskin offers a practical approach to easing one's way through life's difficult moments. The Comfort Book presents a wide variety of tranquil thoughts and actions for self-healing.In today's hectic world of work, responsibility and survival, Seskin finds that people have forgotten how to soothe and take care of themselves. The Comfort Book is a compilation (gathered from people of all ages and all walks of life) of easy-to-follow thoughts and actions, mental retreats, location visits, creative ideas, books, movies and even foods that nurture and nourish.The Comfort Book provides a road map to the caretaking and comforting of one's own self.

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Jane Seskin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the author of 13 books (most recently the poetry collection “Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65”.) She’s also written nonfiction articles and poetry online and for national magazines and journals (20 poems published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, five poems in Woman’s Day. Eighteen of her posts have been published in the Metropolitan Diary column in the New York Times.) Jane has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Noepe Center for Literary Arts. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Ms. Seskin is a practicing psychotherapist, who counseled survivors in individual and group treatment at the Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York for 20 years.

In her free time, she enjoys the theater, walking by the Hudson River, visiting with friends, reading poetry and mysteries (Louise Penny, David Baldacci, Donna Leon) and listening to jazz (Keith Jarrett, Houston Person, Chris Botti). Give her a piece of bread and butter and she’s a happy camper! Jane wrote therapeutic sound-bites on Twitter under the title: “Emotional Band-Aid. Small Steps for Change.”