Recognize the pattern
See the red flags of unsafe or unbalanced relationships and the green flags of relationships that support health.
Books by Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv
What allows healing to begin?
Jeff’s books follow a single, deepening inquiry: what can remarkable recoveries teach us about the conditions that shape human health?
Published by BenBella Books · Distributed by Simon & Schuster
New book · Available October 6, 2026
Relationsick
Why Putting Yourself Last Is Destroying Your Health—and How to Heal
The body wants to heal itself. By treating your relational trauma, you can create the conditions it needs to begin.
Relationsick explores how chronic overgiving, fawning, coercive control, and unequal power dynamics can become embodied. Drawing on trauma-informed medicine, Internal Family Systems, and Relational Life Therapy, the book offers a grounded path toward healthier relationships, a more regulated nervous system, and greater agency.
Understand the body
Learn how fawning, over-functioning, and relational trauma can affect the nervous system, emotions, and physical wellbeing.
Reclaim your agency
Develop clearer boundaries, heal self-abandoning patterns, and make informed choices about repair, distance, or leaving.
“This is a must-read book about relationships that can go awry, as many unfortunately do.”
Bestselling book · Published in 22 languages
Cured
The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing
When it comes to disease, who beats the odds—and why?
After more than fifteen years investigating people who recovered from illnesses considered incurable, Jeff looked beyond dismissal and coincidence to ask what these cases have in common. Cured brings together remarkable human stories and rigorous inquiry to identify the physical and mental conditions associated with recovery.
Flatiron Books · First published February 2020
The four pillars of health
Patterns found across remarkable recoveries.
Heal your nutrition
Create the dietary conditions that help the body function and repair more effectively.
Heal your immune system
Support the body’s defenses and reduce the burdens that keep them from working well.
Heal your stress response
Change the chronic signals of threat that influence the brain, nervous system, and body.
Heal your identity
Examine the beliefs and patterns that keep you disconnected from what creates life, meaning, and authentic wellbeing.
“Cured is packed with cutting-edge science and powerful, eye-opening real life case studies.”
Continue the conversation
Ideas become meaningful when they change how we live.
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