Your Journey Beyond Breast Cancer: Tools for the Road

by Louise B. Lubin PhD

Overview

“You have breast cancer.” These words begin a life-altering journey to live with and beyond cancer. You’ve experienced a myriad of emotions and have ongoing questions and concerns. In Your Journey beyond Breast Cancer, author Dr. Louise B. Lubin offers an interactive, how-to guide for women at any milepost on their breast cancer journey. She offers practical tools to manage uncertainty and loss, relationship changes, the importance of living in the present, and directly facing mortality, as well as how to find your inner strength and resiliency. Each of these challenges is addressed with specific tools to increase knowledge of your body and how to care for it, identify how the power of your mind and thoughts can work for you, and embrace the wisdom of your spirit to find balance and wholeness. Dr. Lubin, a clinical psychologist with forty years of experience, presents these life skills recognizing that each woman is a unique individual and not just a statistic. This integrative whole-person approach is the necessary path to find a healing balance and wholeness for your life with and beyond cancer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663201485
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/19/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Louise B. Lubin, PhD. is a licensed clinical psychologist in Norfolk, Virginia, who has practiced adult, marital, and family therapy for forty years. She developed programs and a website—“Many Paths to Healing”—for hospital systems and physician groups to provide patients the tools to cope and manage the challenges of illness. Dr. Lubin is a retired community faculty at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. Visit her online at www.manypathstohealing.com.

Editorial Reviews

2022-01-11
A debut self-help guide that aims to help women cope with the complex emotions that come with a breast cancer diagnosis.

Lubin draws from lessons learned in her 40 years as a clinical psychologist to create this handy “interactive manual of important life skills” aimed at helping those with breast cancer handle challenging feelings and difficult decisions, care for themselves, and communicate effectively with others. The first chapter deals with uncertainty and anxiety; the next, with feelings of grief and loss. Chapter 3 discusses specific issues that cancer raises for family members and other loved ones, and later chapters provide techniques for staying in the present moment, discuss the fear of death and the importance of communicating one’s needs to others, and present tactics for finding hope and developing resilience. Each section opens with “Lessons Learned From My Patients” and provides up to a dozen tools for the body, mind, and spirit—brief, step-by-step practices, such as breathing, relaxation, and visualization techniques to use as needed. Winding up each chapter is a “Committed Action Contract,” which features simple actions to begin right away. Throughout, the author effectively emphasizes the ways the mind and body affect each other and influence healing, the importance of self-compassion, and the uniqueness of each person’s needs and choices. The topics that the author addresses also range widely, from sexuality and nutrition to mindfulness and ethical wills. Finally, there’s a complete list of “Tools for the Road” by chapter, an extensive list of outside resources, and an index. Over the course of this work, the author’s voice is friendly and empathetic, and the text is clear and matter-of-fact in tone, sprinkled with inspiring quotations, real-life examples, and simple graphics. Many of the ideas are not new, although they are always appropriately credited, and the act of collecting so many well-explained, tried-and-true practices and coping strategies into one short book is a great service to women coping with cancer—and perhaps also to a wider array of people dealing with serious illness, challenging life circumstances, and difficult emotions.

A guide to self-care that offers understanding and a wealth of effective tools for living.

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