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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundation for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

By Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde (1934–1992) was an American writer, poet, feminist, civil rights activist, and librarian. As a Black lesbian, she dedicated her life and writing to addressing systemic racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and heterosexism.

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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.

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Sandra Marinella
2017
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How to Manage Fear of Cancer Recurrence—Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Living with the fear that cancer will return is common for both cancer survivors and their loved ones. Amy Grose, a social worker at Dana-Farber, discusses how to deal with fear of recurrence.

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2010
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Fear of Cancer Recurrence

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2017
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Living with Mortality: Life Goes On

Understanding the patterns of reaction to a prolonged illness with perhaps years of remission and a significant chance of being cured will help you put your emotional survival in focus while your doctor concentrates on your physical survival.

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Malin Dollinger, Bernard Dubrow
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Coping wth Fear of Recurrence

After treatment ends, one of the most common concerns survivors have is that the cancer will come back. The fear of recurrence is very real and entirely normal. Although you cannot control whether the cancer returns, you can control how much the fear of recurrence affects your life.

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Cancer.Net Editorial Board
2019
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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs.

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Susan Gubar
2016
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How Do We Cope with Fear?

For dealing with fear. In this installment of Exploring Life’s Big Questions, Andy Puddicombe talks about a time when he faced fear, how he handled it, and how mindfulness training can help.

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Andy Puddicombe
2020
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