Speak the Language of Healing : a New Approach to Breast Cancer. Living with Breast Cancer Without Going to War

Kuner, Susan; Osborne, Carol Matzkin; Quigley, Linda; Stroup, Karen Leigh

ISBN 10: 1573241687 / ISBN 13: 9781573241687

Published by Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, Me, U. S. A., 1999

About this Item

224p, index. Suggests that a diagnosis of breast cancer, or any life-threatening disease can be a pathway to a deeply spiritual and transformative journey as a path to wholeness and healing. New book.500gms weight; 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 27228

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speak the Language of Healing : a New Approach to Breast Cancer. Living with Breast Cancer Without Going to War
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, Me, U. S. A.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573241687
• ISBN 13: 9781573241687
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Healing
  • Inspirational Reading
  • Spirit and Soul

About this title

Synopsis

Four womeneach diagnosed with breast cancerwere dismayed to learn that the conventional vocabulary for healing is a language characterized by a terminology of warfare and survivorship, with winners and losers. Speak the Language of Healing is the product of their collective experience in developing a new framework for the emotional stages of illness and a new means to talk about it. Their experiences reflect their four different spiritual backgroundsChristian, Jewish, Sufi, and TwelveStepbut they all felt the need to rewrite the combative language of illness with words emphasizing relationship, integration, and spirit. And although the authors were breast cancer patients, their search for meaning, purpose, and emotional balance is universal to anyone facing a lifethreatening disease.

About the Author

Sarah Quigley is a freelance writer, teacher, and editor. In 1996, Ms. Quigley was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. More than once, when fear threatened to take over, her husband has reminded her, "I know a really good book about that you wrote it maybe you should read it again!" The mother of two children, she and her husband live in Galveston, Texas, and Gainesville, Florida.

Carol Orsborn is the author of several books, including Return from Exile, Inner Excellence at Work, and The Art of Resilience. One of the co-authors of Speak the Language of Healing, winner of an Independent Publisher Book Award, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee.