Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: A Step-by-Step MBSR Approach to Help You Cope with Treatment and Reclaim Your Life - Softcover

Carlson PhD RPsych, Linda; Speca PsyD RPsych, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572248874 ISBN 13: 9781572248878

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2011

Synopsis

A Mind-Body Approach to Healing

If you have received a cancer diagnosis, you know that the hundreds of questions and concerns you have about what's to come can be as stressful as the cancer treatment itself. But research shows that if you mentally prepare yourself to handle cancer treatment by getting stress and anxiety under control, you can improve your quality of life and become an active participant in your own recovery.

Created by leading psychologists specializing in oncology, the Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program is based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a therapeutic combination of mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga now offered to cancer survivors and their loved ones in hundreds of medical centers, hospitals, and clinics worldwide. Let this book be your guide as you let go of fear and focus on getting well.

With this eight-week program, you'll learn to: · Use proven MBSR skills during your treatment and recovery
· Boost your immune function through meditation and healing yoga
· Calm feelings of fear, uncertainty, and lack of control
· Mindfully manage difficult symptoms and side effects
· Discover your own capacity for healing and thriving after adversity

About this title

From the Back Cover

"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to what is being offered in this book, it could make an enormous difference in your life and health in important ways too numerous to count. The authors are committed practitioners of mindfulness and their mindfulness-based cancer recovery program, firmly rooted in research findings, radiates an authenticity that you can readily feel, and that will grow with time."
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., professor of medicine emeritus at University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery is a thoughtful, clear, and useful guide to living with cancer and cancer treatment, written by leading experts in the field. It distills Buddhist tradition into a series of practical exercises that can help you spend more of your time in the calm eye of the hurricane that is cancer."
-- David Spiegel, MD, Willson Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine

From the Inside Flap

"Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have masterfully written a clear, insightful and comprehensive book on coping with cancer. They beautifully weave together clinical wisdom, deep, personal mindfulness practice, and scientific rigor in their easily accessible book. I believe the wealth of ideas and practices in this book will be of benefit to those with cancer, offering a path towards greater ease, joy, health and freedom both during treatment and beyond."
-- Shauna L. Shapiro, associate professor at Santa Clara University and coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness 

"Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have coauthored this wise and practical guidebook, a generous offering to cancer patients and their allies. Those who find their way to it will certainly be blessed by their clear vision and deep experience."
-- Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1572248874
• ISBN 13: 9781572248878
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200