Healing With Words - A Writer's Cancer Journey (Paperback)

"Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey" is a compassionate andwry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse andpoet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS(early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelatedand incurable cancer--multiple myeloma. The book includes the author'sexperiences, reflections, poetry and journal entries, in addition to writingprompts for readers to express their own personal story.Raab's journals have provided a safe haven and platform to validate and expressher feelings. Raab views journaling to be like a daily vitamin--in that itheals, detoxifies and is essential for optimal health.
Readers will learn to: Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their own healthDiscover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotionsLearn how the process of journaling can facilitate healingSee how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way
Praise for Raab's "Healing With Words"
"One woman's story, beautifully told and inspiring to those for whomjournaling will ease a cancer diagnosis."
--Barbara Delinsky, author UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
"Time after time, Diana articulates incisively the thoughts and feelings thatconvey hoped-for meaning and encouragement. She is a woman who knowswhat it is to live fully in the face of mortality. She will add value to the life ofevery person who reads this book. Healing With Words resonates at a spirituallevel for me."
--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Author's proceeds from the sale of this book donated to benefit the Mayo Clinic Foundation
Learn more at www.DianaRaab.com
Another inspirational book from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
HEA039031 Health & Fitness: Diseases - Breast Cancer
SEL501000 Self-Help: Journal Writing
MED058160 Nursing - Oncology & Cancer

General

Imprint:	Loving Healing Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Diana M. Raab
Foreword by:	Melvin J. Silverstein M. D.
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	206
ISBN-13:	978-1-61599-010-8
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Oncology > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	1-61599-010-0
Barcode:	9781615990108

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