An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey

Amidst all of the doctors visits, unfamiliar treatments, anxiety, and fear that follow a cancer diagnosis, it s crucial to maintain a sense of stability and peace during your journey. That s exactly what An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey offers readers.

By combining scientific findings with integrative wisdom and the true, heartwarming stories of her cancer patients, Susan Apollon a psychologist who has specialized in integrative oncology, grief, and trauma for nearly 30 years provides a deeper, richer perspective of what we call healing.

You ll find a wealth of practical steps and insightful advice to help you shift to a more positive perspective, tap into hope, and pursue the possibility of a physical, emotional, and spiritual healing experience. For example:
Advice from cancer specialists, psychologists, and other healers
Practical tips on how to care for yourself body, mind, and soul
True stories that will validate your feelings and thoughts, and provide comfort and support
Spiritual insights about cancer and about what healing really means
A wealth of advice on the role integrative medicine can play in your treatment and in maintaining good health and well-being
Techniques to balance your energy, increase mindfulness, and tap into hope and joy

Ultimately, this book is not only for cancer patients, but also for friends, family members, caregivers, and professionals working in the field of healthcare doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, and healers of every stripe. All of these individuals play a role in helping those affected by cancer undertake the inside job that makes possible a physical, emotional, and spiritual healing experience.

Susan s book is filled with the wisdom survivors learn from their experience of cancer. Their wisdom can be utilized to help you fulfill your potential and heal your life while eliminating your disease. Getting well against all odds is not a spontaneous remission. It is self-induced healing. Susan shares what changes you need to make in your life to have that happen. It is about how transformation and harmony in your life give your body a live message and induce a state of healing of your life and curing of your disease.

Bernie Siegel, MD, author of The Art of Healing and Faith, Hope & Healing

Susan Barbara Apollon is a Pennsylvania-licensed psychologist, as well as a cancer survivor and thriver. She has been in private practice since 1991 and specializes in grief, integrative oncology, and trauma. She is also an author, educator, and researcher of consciousness, mind, prayer, intuition, angels, energy, and healing.

Physicians refer their patients to Susan for assistance in healing their grief or meeting their cancer challenge. Susan s roots are in medicine. Her path and her approach, however, have enabled her to develop a unique perspective on healing one that is based on an understanding that everything is energy and that energy is also medicine. With certification in Eden Energy Medicine and training in a number of energy modalities, as well as Energy Psychology, Susan shares with her patients her research findings concerning the primary factors that contribute to remission and healing. Her intention is to provide them with the wisdom and tools needed to achieve balance and wholeness, as well as to survive and thrive.

Susan is the author of four books: Touched by the Extraordinary (Book One); Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two: Healing Stories of Love, Loss & Hope; Affirmations for Healing Mind, Body & Spirit; and (coauthor) Intuition Is Easy and Fun. She is also the creator of several CDs, including: Guided Meditation for Peace, Healing and Empowerment; Healing, Loving Imagery to Comfort and Soothe the Soul Challenged by Cancer; A Healing Meditation to Successfully Meet the Challenge of Cancer; Creating Miracles in Your Life: Extraordinary Stories of Cancer Survivors; and The Healing Power of Love.

Susan hopes this body of work will enable readers and listeners to appreciate the extraordinary spiritual implications of their journey with grief and/or cancer. Susan loves sharing her passion for healing and the extraordinary (including miracles, the power of prayer, and angels). Her belief in the inherent healing wisdom and power within each of us, along with her unique blend of research and personal anecdotal material and stories, have helped many to shift and grow spiritually.

Her articles have appeared in national publications, including magazines, newspapers, and websites. Additionally, she has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows. She has conducted workshops, taught seminars, led healing retreats, and been asked to be a part of interfaith events.

Susan is honored to co-lead the GyniGirls, along with Dr. Amy Harvey. Being a part of this women s cancer support group nurtures her soul. Additionally, she enjoys speaking and sharing her research, as well as volunteering at a free monthly Energy Medicine Clinic.

Family, friends, and pets mean everything to Susan. When not engaged in research, writing, speaking, and her clinical work, she longs to be out in nature. What she loves most is being with her husband, to whom she has been married for 50 years, her children especially her new granddaughter her cherished pets, and dear friends. She knows she is richly blessed.