How to Write a Nonfiction Book

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein MD FAAP’s lecture is a step-by-step blueprint for anyone in healthcare who has a nonfiction book in them screaming to get out onto the page!
The Back Door to the Heart: Dr. Roy-Bornstein on Writing, Witness, and the Work of Letting Go

Dr. Carolyn Roy Bornstein reflects on grief, burnout, and why evidence-based writing may be one of the most quietly powerful tools available to physicians today.
Book: A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals

A compassionate guide to writing your way back to purpose in medicine.
Woo is Having a Moment

“Woo is Having a Moment” limns the space so many of us find ourselves in these days: between the art and the science of medicine, between the rigor of research and the value in vulnerability.
Writing and Publishing Personal Essays on Health, Illness, Caregiving, and the Making of the Healthcare Professional

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein MD will lecture on writing successful personal essays that transcend writers’ lived experience, bring fresh insights, and impart universal lessons or takeaways, with writing that moves us.
The Nonfiction Book Proposal and Query Letter Demystified

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein MD FAAP teaches professionals with either great idea for a non fiction book or completed manuscript.
Speaker: Carolyn Roy-Bornstein MD FAAP

Dr. Roy-Bornstein leads dynamic, interactive reflective writing workshops for healthcare professionals as a modality for addressing emotional exhaustion, disillusionment, and professional burnout in our field, restoring joy to our jobs, and reclaiming our voice and our vocation.
Book: Chicken Soup for the Soul Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries: 101 Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work

Profound experiences, powerfully told by TBI survivors and the family and healthcare professionals who care for and about them.
Book: Crash: A mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief to Gratitude

An “other-side-of-the-stretcher” story of one physician-mom’s experience with her son’s traumatic brain injury.
Book: Through Thick and Thin: One Foster Family’s Eating Disorder Journey

When patients become family: a true story of making room for the unexpected and doubling down on love.
Carolyn Roy-Bornstein MD FAAP

Pediatrician, published author, speaker, and writer-in-residence. I believe in the healing power of narrative.