Fearless Healing: A Cancer Survival Guide

When you hear the C-word, what do you do? This is a book about options for people with cancer. Making sense of what your doctor recommends, alternative and complementary therapies, dealing with your friends, family and finances as well as making your time in the hospital (if you choose that) more pleasant. Surviving cancer means taking ownership of your body, your spirit and your healing. It's not about guilt, but it is about responsibility. Take back your health. Ameena Meer operates on the idea that your body is an incredible machine with the ability to heal itself indefinitely, given the right support. Here's a guide to getting the support you need.

Ameena Meer has lived multiple lives - a dancer, a journalist and editor for magazines like Art Forum, Interview, Paper Magazine, Details, Bomb, Actuel; a novelist and writer, Bombay Talkie [Highrisk Books] and How to Shoot Your Kids with Arthur Elgort. She's been a creative director and copywriter for brands like Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Balenciaga, Diesel, Avon and Weleda; Meer is also a health coach, a nutrition consultant, a registered hypnotist, polarity and craniosacral practitioner and reiki master. She is also certified in green medicine, healing with whole foods and medicinal oils. Her own experiences with illnesses - PCOs, meningitis, a liver virus and cancer - made her study the ways in which people heal and thrive afterwards. Her goal is to help people recover their innate healing and anti-aging abilities to be their best and happiest selves.