Writing as a Treatment for Cancer: Prompts for Healing Your Life During the Cancer Journey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781632937605)

If you are serious about beating cancer and are ready to discover the healing power of expressive handwriting, this book is for you. Through hundreds of prompts, you are invited to explore your innermost feelings with pen and paper. This can ease your way during chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, and help you restore your body, emotions, mind, personal relationships, and spirit. Each section begins by revealing how the author, in radical remission from end-stage cancer, created positive changes for her life by writing out her difficult feelings. Then warmup questions progress toward "moving deeper" queries. The final "dive to thrive" process allows fresh insights to flourish as you sidestep your normal inhibitions. Scientific studies suggest that this integrative therapy can boost immunity, lower stress, and create emotional renewal. Here is your invaluable guide along the way.