Awakening Your Powers of Coping and Healing: Advice for Those with Cancer or Other Serious Illness

By Tamara Blett

Learn about ten things you can do to foster your health, happiness, and healing while navigating through the diagnosis and treatment of cancer or other serious illness.

Find out what your doctor wont tell you about coping with the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of disease.

Create your own plan of action for cultivating an enhanced quality of life, right through the heart of your journey across illness and beyond.

Awakening Your Powers of Coping and Healing:
Advice for Those with Cancer or Other Serious Illness is:

A great resource and solid information for anyone going through major health challenges.
Joan Arent, author and inspirational speaker

So easy to read, so engaging, so positive.
Bonnie McClusky, RN,
Cancer Patient Navigator, Denver, Colorado

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504325523

Tamara Blett

Tamara Blett was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and found the experience both traumatic and transformative. She has written extensively about nature and science and is interested in exploring the ways that both physical and metaphysical learning enhance the human experience. She lives with her husband in Colorado. Visit her website at: www.yourinnerhealing.com

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

All images in this book provided by Bristlecone Photography.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-2551-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-2552-3 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 03/23/2015

CONTENTS

Preface

1. You Are in Control

2. Keep Track—Write It Down!

3. Let Friends and Family Help

4. Mitigating Stress

5. Use Mind Talk to Your Advantage

6. West Meets East—Western and Complementary Medicine

7. Consider the Healing Powers of Food

8. Financial Matters

9. Now Is Where You Are, Always

10. Resources—Get Creative

PREFACE

M y vision is that this short book provides unique resources and suggestions that will spark new ideas and inspire actions helpful to people with cancer or other serious illness. Everyone’s journey through diagnosis and treatment of a disease is unique and affects him or her in a different place: physically, spiritually, emotionally, or intellectually. The contents herein represent the most important concepts and tools I wish I had found earlier in my own cancer journey. In the months after my diagnosis, I searched in vain for a book like this one that would focus on the things I could do to become more healthy, happy, and hopeful, while the medical professionals took care of the things they specialized in (pharmaceuticals, surgeries, medical research, and radiation).

Eventually I did collect quite a few helpful references and found that many good books