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Experiences with Cancer, Captured in Works of Art

By Susan Gubar — 2020

The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.

Sandra Marinella

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Tips for Working through the Emotions of Cancer

Going through cancer treatment can be an emotional roller coaster. Psychiatric Oncologist Dr. Wendy Baer gives some tips to keep you moving forward.

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Emotional Equations: Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life

When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...

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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.

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The Resilient Founder: Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs

Venture backed companies are expected to grow at high velocity, raise large amounts of capital, build teams effectively to achieve unicorn, no decacorn status. Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities and black swan events. It can wear out the best and the brightest.

Mahendra Ramsinghani

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How It Feels to Have Cancer as a Young Person

While most young people are starting their lives and figuring out what they want to do with their futures, there are 4,000 Australians every year under the age of 35 who get diagnosed with some form of Cancer. It is estimated that one third of those diagnosed in any year are not expected to survive.

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Cancer and Fatigue as a Teenager—Ellis’ Story

Ellis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at 16 years old. Fatigue made it difficult to do full days at school. He also had to give up basketball, his favourite sport. Ellis’ treatment affected his immune system.

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Six Years and Counting: Love, Leukemia, and the Long Road Onward

In this gripping chronicle, Peter Gordon describes the initial shock of his cancer diagnosis, the ensuing upheaval, the anxious wait for a matching donor, the long hospitalization for the transplant itself, and the surprisingly difficult road afterward. And that's just part of the story.

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How to Starve Cancer . . . Without Starving Yourself

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive.

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What Helped Me Get Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope

Winner: 2009 National Health Information Award, Gold; Finalist: 2010 National Indie Excellence Award, Health & Well-being ——— This new book, edited by a breast cancer survivor, succinctly relates the experiences, both practical and sensitive, of hundreds of cancer survivors—including celebrities such...

Julie K. Silver

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