Loving Your Friend Through Cancer

Loving Your Friend Through Cancer
Author: Marissa Henley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9781530384037

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Have you ever struggled to find the right words to say to a friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer? Do you wonder which acts of kindness she would appreciate the most as she endures chemotherapy or a mastectomy? Loving Your Friend Through Cancer provides an in-depth look at what it feels like to have cancer and how friends can help. Marissa Henley's experience as a cancer survivor and her detailed advice will equip you to love and serve your friend through her illness. In this book, you'll learn: - Why you should never say, "Let me know how I can help." - Practical suggestions for supporting your friend immediately after diagnosis, throughout treatment, and beyond. - How to move beyond "I'm sorry" and provide the encouragement she needs. - Specific ways to pray for her and minister to her spiritually. Whether you're a close friend providing daily support or an acquaintance who wants to avoid saying the wrong thing, this book will help you support your friend with confidence and compassion.

Loving Your Friend Through Cancer

Loving Your Friend Through Cancer
Author: Marissa Henley
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781629953540

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When cancer strikes a friendship, the questions begin. What's going to happen now? What should I say and do? How can I really help? As a cancer survivor and friend to those with cancer, Marissa Henley knows that your friend needs your helpand you need information that your friend may not be able to give you right now. This practical guide steps into that gap as Marissa helps you to gain a deeper understanding of the situation: what your friend may be thinking and feeling, what her treatment may entail, what logistical issues may arise. Then she gives concrete suggestions for providing emotional, physical, and spiritual support that reflects genuine compassion and sympathy. Appendices include biblical studies on suffering and community. Whether you're caring for a close friend, a member of your congregation, or a more distant acquaintance, you will find resources here to understand your role, make a plan, and be a much-needed support in the days to come.

Loving Your Friend Through Cancer

Loving Your Friend Through Cancer
Author: Marissa Henley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9781629953557

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Henley, a cancer survivor herself, describes what having cancer feels like and what a cancer patient truly needs from friends. With both knowledge and compassion, she offers specific action steps and practical support resources to help show love in the day-to-day details.--c.f. publisher description.

Dear Friend

Dear Friend
Author: Gina L. Mulligan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1452163499

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A beautiful collection of handwritten letters that offer strength and comfort to women living with breast cancer. Written by compassionate strangers—many of whom have gone through their own health battles—these heartfelt letters contain empathy, inspiration, and humor to help you overcome difficult moments. They were gathered by Girls Love Mail, an organization that provides support to people diagnosed with breast cancer. Also including beautiful illustrations, this is a book that can bring light to dark moments and make readers feel less alone during stressful and hard times.

When Someone You Love Has Cancer

When Someone You Love Has Cancer
Author: Cecil Murphey
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780736924283

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It's sometimes difficult to know how to respond to the unexpected twists and turns that accompany a devastating diagnosis. This comforting book inspires caregivers to seek peace and understanding in their loved one's situation, learn the importance of active listening, and explore their own feelings of confusion and unrest.

How to Cope Better When Someone You Love Has Cancer

How to Cope Better When Someone You Love Has Cancer
Author: William Penzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780983501701

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In 2005, Dr. William Penzer, a seasoned psychologist of more than four decades, found himself falling on his emotional face when his 31-year-old daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite having helped thousands of people navigate the choppy and challenging demands life often imposes, he was drowning in a sea of his own emotions. Like a traveler in a foreign land, which Dr. Penzer came to call Cancerville, he eventually discovered the pain-filled reality of supporting a loved one who has been diagnosed with cancer. In this groundbreaking book, he shares all the secrets of surviving and staying the course in Cancerville, helping people take better care of themselves while being fully present for their loved ones. His advice will help readers quickly adapt to Cancerville: to feel more empowered and optimistic; to rise to the challenges; and to deal with emotional down times, strengthen their minds, and communicate more effectively.

Talking with My Treehouse Friends about Cancer

Talking with My Treehouse Friends about Cancer
Author: Peter Van Dernoot
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 1555916309

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This activity book, written by the founder of The Children's Treehouse Foundation, is designed to help children cope with the news that their parents or grandparents have cancer. The diary provides age-appropriate explanations and allows kids to express their feelings through drawing, coloring, pasting, and writing.

HELP! Someone I Love Has Cancer

HELP! Someone I Love Has Cancer
Author: Joel Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732091900

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To help people learn how to help and love cancer patients and loved ones and family and friends with cancer.

Being Single, with Cancer

Being Single, with Cancer
Author: Tracy Maxwell
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1936303418

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My Dance with Cancertells Tracy’s story of facing ovarian cancer as a thirty-something single woman from diagnosis through treatment and now “survivorship.” Tracy addresses the physical and emotional aspects of the disease, and highlights lessons she learned and shared through her blog, A Single Cell. Tracy speaks directly to the hopes and fears, insecurities and triumphs of a single person with cancer. She discusses the emotions and practicalities of dealing with a diagnosis, including getting support as a single person and what patients who are single need from those around them. She shares intimate stories of her experiences and looks at the roles of fear, friends, family, dating, traditional holidays and creating new ones based on her cancer experience. She looks at the lessons learned, setbacks, the importance of paying it forward, how people can protect themselves, states of mind and the role of gratitude. Tracy ends with a chapter on love, including the importance of loving herself, highlighting the journey she took to learn to love her self and trust her intuition. Tracy invites the reader to answer questions at the end of each chapter so they too, can learn life lessons from their experience.

Cancer Etiquette

Cancer Etiquette
Author: Rosanne Kalick
Publisher: Lion Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

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At last, the definitive guide on how to respond when someone says, I have cancer. Two-time cancer survivor Rosanne Kalick helps readers communicate caringly with the cancer patient. Many have had the gut-wrenching experience of having a friend or loved one reveal they have cancer, yet few can figure out how to react. Using real stories, Kalick conveys how much most people really want to say and do the right thing – and how they often fail. Even those in the medical profession who work with cancer are guilty of etiquette don’ts. The book is intended for patients, caregivers, family members, and friends. . . . Patients and others will find a great deal of value here. The lay-out is unadorned; there are subsection headings, but readers will have to read through t to find the nuggets. This book is long overdue. Recommended for all libraries. - Bette Lee Fox, Library Journal