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Seeing Red: Coping with Anger During Cancer

By Heather L. Van Epps — 2012

Coping with anger during cancer can be difficult. And although anger is commonly regarded as a negative emotion, it can have advantages for cancer patients. “Some patients can take the anger and say, ‘I’m going to use this to fight back,’” says Philip Bialer, MD, a psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, “so it can be used in a constructive way.”

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Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system.

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Anita Moorjani
2014
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

These intimate stories by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, and friends, are a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences—from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school, and work.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, David Tabatsky
2009
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Daniel Goleman (foreword)
2010
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2015
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When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between inhibited emotion and Alzheimer's disease? Is there a “cancer personality”? Questions such as these are emerging as scientific findings throw new light on the controversy that surrounds the mind-body connection in illness...

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Gabor Maté
2011
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Spontaneous Happiness: A New Path to Emotional Well-Being

Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr.

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Andrew Weil
2013
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Thoughts from the Heart of the Soul: Meditations on Emotional Awareness

In the national bestseller The Heart of the Soul, Gary Zukav and Linda Francis joined together to help us to develop a new emotional awareness that is central to our spiritual development.

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Gary Zukav, Linda Francis
2002
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, finding flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives.

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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
1998
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Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

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Ken Wilber
2001
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The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

Emotions―especially the dark and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy. We’ve all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them.

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Karla McLaren
2010
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