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Zusatztext "A brilliant new book that offers a radically different way of dealing with the disease." — Daily Express "Sabbage charts the physical aspects of her illness with unsparing precision." — Irish Times "This is medicine for the soul from a soulful cancer thriver." — Kelly Turner ! PhD! New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds Informationen zum Autor SOPHIE SABBAGE is an inspirational writer, speaker, and facilitator who has worked in the field of human development, emotional intelligence, mind-set change, and corporate culture change for more than twenty years. Klappentext The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer. "I have cancer. Cancer does not have me." Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old! happily married! and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis! she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and renewal that has reshaped her life-for the better. The Cancer Whisperer chronicles Sophie's extraordinary relationship with cancer and the very effective methods she has used for dealing with her fear! anger! denial! and grief. The Brené Brown of cancer! Sophie empowers readers to reject the traditional adversarial relationship with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as how to seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free even when we are physically curtailed. Beautifully and poignantly written! The Cancer Whisperer encourages cancer patients to: • Direct their own treatment while preserving their personhood in a system that tends to see them as patients more than people. • Engage with fear! anger! and grief in healthy and healing ways instead of toughing it out! trying to be falsely positive! or collapsing into despair. • Radically shift from being a cancer victim to a cancer listener-fostering an understanding of cancer as a symptom of other underlying causes and engaging with whatever changes it calls on them to make. As authentic as it is revolutionary! The Cancer Whisperer calls for an end to "the war on cancer" and the start of a more transformative dialogue with the disease. 1 The Compass Being diagnosed with cancer is a multifaceted challenge for your mind, body, heart and spirit. It is by no means only a physical journey, though all too often it's treated as such. My doctors ask how my body feels, but not how my heart feels. They ask how I'm coping with the side effects from drugs, but not how I'm coping with the fear that stalks so many of my days or the waves of grief that first crashed onto and continue to lap at my shore. Conventional medicine advises me to eat a "balanced diet" of protein, carbs and vegetables, while assuring me it is fine to eat sugar. My complementary practitioners are convinced that cancer feeds off sugar (among other things) and implore me to cut it completely from my diet. At first I was overwhelmed. I didn't know which way to turn or what plans to make. I wanted to live, so I needed a survival plan, but I had incurable cancer, so I needed a death plan too. I was the primary earner in my family, but was incapable of working, so I put the consulting business I had led for twenty years aside while I scrambled for dry land in the wake of my diagnostic tsunami. It seemed so symbolic that my eyesight had gone wonky. I could see only a few feet in front of me. Everything got blurry, precarious, vague. My ability to envision the future, which I had always found easy, evaporated quickly while time fell in on itself and then spread out like sand. Terrifying as all this was, I was blessed in many ways. I had friends around me who did ask what my heart was feeling, and who ...
