An Island Woman’s Heart: A Poetry Book About Love, Life, Spirituality and Everything Else

By Elizabeth A. Garcia-Janis MD

An Island’s Woman’s Heart is a book of poetry about love, life, spirituality and everything else. This heartfelt book includes poetry that Dr. Elizabeth A. Garcia-Janis has written across the years. She added some of her musings as well as lyrics of songs she has written to create a musical entitled Heal.
This poetry book gives us an insight to what a woman born in the islands of the Philippines’s soulful perspectives are. Since she has lived in various parts of the world, this poetry book portrays how what she learned from her culture and upbringing has shaped her way of thinking and being and which added depth and wisdom in her purpose-laden life.

An Island Woman’s Heart will take you to her nostalgia of the islands, her thoughts about love and life, her deep feelings about her loved ones and the encompassing nature of her profound spirituality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982263461

Elizabeth A. Garcia-Janis MD

Elizabeth A. Garcia-Janis MD DFAPA is a double board certified Child and Adult Psychiatrist who has dedicated her life serving those who suffered disasters, losses and tragedies. She served as chief medical officer and medical director in various psychiatric organizations and hospitals. Dr. Garcia-Janis volunteered doing intensive short term disaster relief work in many parts of the world: the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption in the Philippines; the Katrina evacuess in Houston, Texas; the tsunami in Thailand; the Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica; and uplifted clean water for the world in Uganda. She also responded to the tribal emergency declared by a Lakota Native American tribal president regarding the youth suicides in the Pine Ridge reservation. Dr. Garcia-Janis was granted the Distinguished Fellow award by the American Psychiatric Association. She was also awarded Physician of the Year in 2009 by the Medi-Star Medical News. The Leading Physicians of the World organization honored her as the Top Psychiatrist 2013. She has received numerous recognitions regarding her humanitarian work locally and globally. She founded the Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation and its mission is to serve those who suffered disaster, losses and tragedies. Dr. Garcia-Janis authored The Courage to Encourage, Your Compassionate Nature and co-authored Utmost with Dr. Ashis Brahma.

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