In the early years of her career, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, felt alone and hoped…
Honoring and Remembering Dr. Rachel Remen
It is with a sad and heavy heart that we announce the death of Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, founder of the Remen Institute for the Study of Health & Illness (RISHI). Rachel died peacefully at home under hospice care on the morning of Aug. 8 surrounded by her loving family.
During this time of grief and loss, we are filled with gratitude for the gift of Rachel and the impact of her work throughout the world. Her message of wholeness, calling, and a need for maintaining meaning and purpose in medicine will leave a lasting legacy.
Since 1991, RISHI has provided education and support programs for health professionals who aspire to bring their hearts into their work and are dedicated to practicing a medicine of service, human connection, and compassionate healing.
In 2019, RISHI joined with Ohio’s Hospice as part of Pure Healthcare to continue providing innovative tools and resources, and further their mission of healing the culture of healthcare through educational programs and the formation of supportive communities.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Rachel challenged us all to live out our calling and live a whole and authentic life. Let us be the light that lives on from her teaching.
Memorial services are being planned. Please feel free to share a story or condolence in the comments below. We will share them with Rachel’s family.
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May her light forever shine in a world that needs her now more than ever. My thoughts and prayers for her family, friends and everyone else (including myself) that have been profoundly and eternally impacted by her love, authenticity, and presence.
Much love to all who learned, lived, and loved because of Dr. Remen. I came across her book Kitchen Table wisdom, when I had just moved to the SF bay from Indiana and I was parenting two exceptional needs daughters. I was exploring and grappling with so many different things – much of it alone. Dr. Rachel’s words were so comforting to my heart and expanded my mind in a way that I will always be grateful for – as a counselor, parent, partner, and person. May those who grieve her be comforted – knowing her legacy is love.
Dr. Remember has been a source of inspiration from her influence and work in establishing Healer’s Art . She is very much alive in all her students and her influence will remain. Thanks Dr. Remen!
I wish I had the blessing of meeting Dr. Remen in life, and yet she SO touched my life from her words and works. In particular, I’ll never forget a conversation where she encouraged another struggling physician to ‘be happy anyway’ within the system of medicine we know to be broken. On a more personal level, I knew all too well the striving for the “missing” 2% to make 100 on a test and the impact that had on my life, as well as her comments on approval being the flipside of judgment and about as healthy for my soul as cotton candy would be for my body. THANK YOU Dr. Remen for having our backs in so many ways. I will continue to seek your wisdom as I figure out how to BE in my ONE wild and precious life!
What an auspicious day to transition! 8/8/26. May her memory be a blessing. I will never forget the time I spent with her.
Dr Remen’s work has touched people around the world, making the experience of health care more humane for practitioners and patients. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to meet Rachel and to bring her ideas to students at Monash University. My sincere condolences to her family and to the RISHI community.
During a very trying time with hospitalization for inflammatory bowel disease, not working for 5 months and following a fellow physician’s suicide 20 years ago, I was introduced to Dr. Remen’s books and Finding Meaning in Medicine. Her work played a large part in my recovery and return to work. We started a Finding Meaning in Medicine group to help support our medical staff.
I planted daffodils in my yard to bloom in spring. Thinking at the time if I did not live until spring, maybe my children would remember/think of me each year when the daffodils bloomed.
Now the planting of daffodils has grown into a large bed of daffodils. So many daffodils, I cut them and share them in the office and hospital each year. I share the story of healing that was helped by Dr. Remen!
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For Rachel
She knew
that the wounded heart
could still be whole,
that listening
could be medicine,
and that every life
carried a story
worth hearing.
Now she has gone
where all the great mysteries go-
leaving us the question
she spent a lifetime answering:
With this one precious life,
how will you serve?
As a medical student in Japan, my English teacher recommended “Kitchen Table Wisdom” to me during my third year. At a time when I was questioning whether I had made the right choice in entering medical school, this book gave me hope for a future as a doctor. Holistic medicine may be easy to talk about, but it’s difficult to put into practice.
I traveled from Japan twice to attend her workshops, and she presented me with a Japanese translation of her books. I still vividly remember her intellectual approach—how she would immediately apply insights gained during the workshops to new exercises—and, above all, her poise, which embodied her very way of life.
By a twist of fate, I am now working in Germany, but I believe that putting what I learned from Rachel into practice wherever I am in the world is the greatest tribute I can pay to her, and I will continue on my path in medicine. May she rest in peace. My prayers go out to her family, friends, and everyone connected to Rachel.