When Life Becomes Precious or The Healing Runes

When Life Becomes Precious: A Guide for Loved Ones and Friends of Cancer Patients

Author: Elise NeeDell Babcock

When you hear that someone you love has cancer...

You want to be as supportive as possible. But how?

Elise NeeDell Babcock has devoted her life to answering this question and now puts her twenty-three years of experience as a counselor into this immensely useful guide. When Life Becomes Precious contains hundreds of tips for helping patients, primary caregivers, co-workers, and family members, including:

• What to say (and not to say) to someone when you first find out they have cancer
  
• How to be supportive without being intrusive
  
• How to build a winning health-care team
  
• How to handle holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries
  
• How to explain the disease to children
  
• Which gifts and gestures can do the most good
  

From techniques for handling anger and anxiety, to uplifting success stories, to a comprehensive resource section, here is the information and inspiration you need to help those you love and to make each day—each moment—more precious.

When Life Becomes Precious will be the first book to:

• offer tips on ways to help patients, caregivers and co-workers
  
• provide a long and diverse list of gifts that are appropriate to give to families that are living with cancer
  
• offers reasons why fear makes people shy away from discussing cancer and techniques on how to overcome that fear
  
• present the things that families do that doctors likeand dislike

When Life Becomes Precious will teach readers to assess and put into perspective, their own feelings about the disease so that they can truly help those who are afflicted with it. The use of cartoons, anecdotes and personal stories will set an upbeat and positive tone. Readers will come away fully prepared to deal with the realities of cancer. —>

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Eleven Common Reactions: Understanding Your Feelings When Cancer Strikes Someone You Care About	1
Ch. 2	Why We Stop Talking When We Need to Start: How Our Fears Can Separate Us from Each Other	22
Ch. 3	What Do I Say? How to Begin Talking to Someone Living with Cancer: 36 Guidelines	34
Ch. 4	Along the Way: Keys to the Tougher Conversations	55
Ch. 5	From the Goodness of Your Heart: 52 Gifts You Can Give	70
Ch. 6	The One Who Needs You: Providing Comfort to the Primary Caregiver	88
Ch. 7	Managing Cancer in the Workplace: Taking Care of Employees While Meeting Your Goals	105
Ch. 8	Giving Without Giving Out: A Primary Caregiver's Guide to Well-Being	122
Ch. 9	How to Support Your Children When Someone They Love Has Cancer: Sharing the News and Helping Them Understand	152
Ch. 10	A Family Challenge: Overcoming the Long-Term Problems	175
Ch. 11	Finding the Best Doctors: What You Can Do Before the First Appointment	199
Ch. 12	Building a Winning Health Care Team	221
Ch. 13	Break the Rules: Enjoying or at Least Surviving Holidays	242
	Epilogue	257
	Resources	259

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The Healing Runes: Tools for the Recovery of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul

Author: Ralph H Blum

Since the beginning of recorded history, the oracular tradition has been associated with healing and with the Divine. For Ralph H. Blum, the journey toward spiritual and emotional healing began with the 1982 publication of The Book of Runes. Since then, millions of people have welcomed the inspiration, guidance and comfort found in his interpretation of an ancient Western Oracle-- the Runes.At this time in history, a recognition of the relationship between physical health and emotional well-being is crucial. Created specifically to support traditional forms of therapy, healing and recovery, as well as all Twelve Step programs, The Healing Runes offers a new interpretation of this sacred oracle for all those whose lives stand in need of healing.When you are feeling alone or afraid; when you are sick physically or emotionally; or when your best friend is away and you need sound advice-- put your hand in the bag and pick a Rune. And when you are full of joy and praise and gratitude-- pick a Rune. The Healing Runes provides comfort for the heart, ease for the body, peace for the mind and nourishment for the soul.