An interview with her, "Writing and Revelation," is included in Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith: Twelve American Writers Talk about Their Vision and Work.
An artist is overwhelmed by a spiritual and physical experience that initially turns her life upside down, plunging her into compulsions, obsessions, and unmentionable attractions.
It tells the story of a morbidly obese American woman living in India hiding from the life she tried to escape in North Carolina.
Hammond, therefore, faces the difficult decision of whether to risk his livelihood by going public about the ordeal or keep secret the very thing his career is supposedly devoted to teaching.
The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others was Payne's second book, written with Allan Luks and published in 1991.
In it, she argues, based on scientific evidence, that helping others mitigates both the intensity and the awareness of physical pain, reduces chronic hostility, and decreases the constriction within the lungs, leading to asthma attacks.
She and Luks also make famous the term "helper's high," which describes a feeling of exhilaration and a burst of energy similar to that experienced after intense exercise, followed by calmness and serenity.