Description
Book SynopsisThere are no guidelines to follow once treatment for cancer finishes - no bridge from hospital to home. How do you discuss the variety of changes you are experiencing when you may not even know how to describe them? All you know is that you are confused and that you feel out of sync with yourself and with others.
Picking Up the Pieces will guide you through this difficult time.
Trade ReviewThis is a book of deep experience. The survivors' voices are wise and inspiring. The advice is practical, sensible, and supportive. Give it to anyone you know who has cancer. Buy it for yourself. -- James S. Gordon * author of Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary and Conventional *
Picking Up the Pieces is a wonderful and important gift for cancer survivors. It is written by two highly skilled, deeply caring women with decades of experience assisting people to effectively navigate cancer and life's other great transitions. Filled with wisdom, heart, insight, and practical advice, this book will profoundly enrich and enhance the recovery process. -- Jeremy Geffen, M.D. * Medical Oncologist and author of The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transfo *
This book is about the period after cancer diagnosis and treatment, described by survivors as “an in-between place, limbo,
a weird nothingness, a neutral zone”, or the Void....
Picking Up the Pieces is easy to read, practical, moving and insightful. I liked the way in which the authors provided doable strategies for living through this difficult period, wrote about challenges to making changes, and advanced counterarguments to help the reader move ahead. I strongly recommend this book as a resource for friends, family members and clients.
-- Anita M. Unruh * Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One So Where's the Party?
Chapter Two Having New Eyes
Chapter Three Laying Out the Pieces
Chapter Four The Daily Practices
Section I Finding the Four Corners: Inquiry
Introduction: The Self Scans
Chapter Five In Your Skin: Assessing Your Body
Chapter Six What's on Your Mind: Assessing Your Thoughts and Emotions
Chapter Seven Why Am I Here? Assessing Your Spirituality
Chapter Eight Who Showed Up? Assessing Your Relationships
Conclusion
Section II Framing the Edges: Discovery
Chapter Nine Doorways to Change
Chapter Ten Four Approaches to Healing: Designing a Healing Plan
Chapter Eleven Actualizing Your Healing Plan
Chapter Twelve Exploring Possibility
Chapter Thirteen Re-Evaluating Your Healing Plan
Section III Working toward the Centre: Growth
Chapter Fourteen Growth through Adversity
Chapter Fifteen From Wounds to Wisdom
Section IV Seeing the Whole Picture: Reflection
Chapter Sixteen Living with Uncertainty
Chapter Seventeen Don't Go Back to Sleep
notes
resources
about the authors
