The Cancer Whisperer

Both memoir and self-help book, this is the remarkable chronicle of a passage from 'terminal' diagnosis to exuberant wellness in just a few months. The Cancer Whisperer reverses our traditional adversarial relationships with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free of illness even when physically curtailed.Living on the frontier between her fierce will to live and necessary willingness to die,...
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Both memoir and self-help book, this is the remarkable chronicle of a passage from 'terminal' diagnosis to exuberant wellness in just a few months. The Cancer Whisperer reverses our traditional adversarial relationships with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free of illness even when physically curtailed.Living on the frontier between her fierce will to live and necessary willingness to die, Sophie--now thriving with cancer--shares her journey with searing honesty, unapologetic vulnerability and intelligent pragmatism. Alongside rare insights into a condition now affecting approximately one in three people, she challenges the mental conditioning we need to overcome to redefine our narratives about cancer. Inspired, wise, moving and practical, this book is as unflinching as Lisa Lynch's The C Word, as uplifting as Kris Carr's Crazy, Sexy Cancer, and carries us to a new threshold in our relationship with cancer, strengthening our ability to meet it with courage, creativity, gratitude and grace."Whilst aimed fairly and squarely at those with cancer, The Cancer Whisperer is also a 'must read' for family and friends who seek to understand the 'inside' of the experience of cancer and the ways in which they can be a genuine support and help. But, beyond this, Sophie's writing burns with an incandescence that illuminates life directions for us all. She courageously and generously shares the hard-won fruits of her own perilous explorations, providing a coherent picture of the realities of our shared existence and an authentic way to be that we can all learn from."Robin Daly, Founder of Yes To Life (UK Cancer Charity)