{"product_id":"creative-healing-places-joan-portman-9798886360103","title":"Creative Healing Places: Stories of Hope, Comfort, and Inspiration","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the doctors told my husband, \"Your father has brain cancer,\" our world went dark. Harry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas a bright light in our family-funny, out-going, and always ready with bear hugs and jokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe were filled with questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill he survive?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill he suffer?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat treatments and medications are available?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can we help him with whatever lies ahead?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis heartwarming book shares the silver lining legacy inspired by accompanying Harry during\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis nine-month battle with the disease that ultimately claimed his life. That legacy became the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealing Environments Program we created for the Saint Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePennsylvania in 2007. This program relied on the creative abilities of off-site crafters who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egenerously volunteered their time and talents creating handmade items of comfort which were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoffered as gifts to seriously ill patients by on-site volunteers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver nine years, we visited more than 26,000 patients, gifting them with 9,329 afghans, shawls, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand quilts, plus 18,250 additional comfort items such as neck roll pillows, mastectomy pillows, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand hair-loss caps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is my sincere desire that you find within these pages an awakening to ways you can reach out\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein compassion to help those you know and love or to provide comfort to perfect strangers. I also\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehope you discover some answers to the question, \"What can I possibly do to help?\" And in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efinding those answers, may you also be blessed to discover your own 'healing place.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is said, a candle loses nothing of its brilliance by lighting another candle. As you offer yourself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein service to others, some aspect of your life will inevitably be healed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Portman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 888636010X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798886360103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authority Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Joan Portman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072595685631,"sku":"9798886360103","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee089cb4-dbad-43c0-a56d-df06c354f605.jpg?v=1685442914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creative-healing-places-joan-portman-9798886360103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}