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    Picking Up the Pieces
    Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer

    Sherri Magee (Author), Kathy Scalzo (Author)

    9780813540368

    Paperback / softback, published 31 January 2007

    322 pages, 6 chart
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg

    This 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)

    Stepping back into everyday life after having faced a life-threatening illness is not as simple as it sounds. Now what? How do you pick up the pieces of your life and put them back together again? There 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. Reassuring, realistic, and insightful, this book presents a unique four-phase process with useful daily practices to support you along your recovery journey. Drawing on the inspiring voices of cancer survivors, the authors give practical advice on how to design your own unique Healing Plan, including suggestions on ways to handle physical side effects and stress, and how to connect with yourself, with others, and with a higher power. They provide informational and educational resources and professional support services, and they suggest ways that you may find healing through your own contributions and creativity.

    For the more than 10 million cancer survivors in North America who have spent months and, in many cases, years, battling disease, this book is essential for reclaiming mind, body, and spirit to move forward with recovery.

    See a talk by co-author Kathy Scalzo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvINDkcLRuE
     

    Acknowledgements

    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 

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