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    Empowered Healing: Creating Quality of Life While Journeying With Cancer
    Empowered Healing: Creating Quality of Life While Journeying With Cancer
    Empowered Healing: Creating Quality of Life While Journeying With Cancer
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    Empowered Healing: Creating Quality of Life While Journeying With Cancer

    By Susanne M Alexander and Craig A. Farnsworth

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    Empowered Healing is a practical guide to personal responsibility in healing and creating quality of life while experiencing cancer. The book guides patients and their loved ones through a systematic fact-based, spirit-guided approach. This approach can lengthen cancer patient's lives and also help them increase the quality of the time they have, no matter how long it is.

    * Practical suggestions and strategies
    * Short, easy-to-read guide
    * Applies to most cancers, whatever treatment choices are made
    * A cancer journey can be overwhelming; this guide is simple and easy to implement
    * Helps patients, especially when married; caregivers; friends; and family
    * Contains honest and heartfelt stories from Craig and Susanne's own experiences
    * Endorsed by Dr. Bernie Siegel, bestselling author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

    Cancer patients search for an often-elusive cure or miracle treatment. Some choose to simply let the disease progress. Many choose multiple treatment options that are challenging in their side effects. However, maintaining empowered personal responsibility in healing, coping, and creating optimum quality of life is vital.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780981666655
    Empowered Healing: Creating Quality of Life While Journeying With Cancer
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    Susanne M Alexander

    Susanne M. Alexander is a Relationship and Marriage Educator and Coach, book author, and publisher with Marriage Transformation®. She is certified to offer couple's assessments through Prepare-Enrich® and for individuals with the Character Foundations Assessment™. Susanne is passionate about facilitating individuals and couples making good character, relationship, and marriage choices through building knowledge and skills. Couples who make excellent choices create happy, healthy relationships and marriages and prevent divorces. Susanne meets with individual and couple clients globally via the internet for character growth, relationship and marriage preparation, and couple relationship and marriage strengthening. Susanne writes articles and books about character, relationships, and marriage. She also develops online courses for healthy relationships, marriages, and families. She is a member of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME). Susanne shares: "I have had an adventurous time with relationships and marriages. My first marriage gave me a daughter-and now son-in-law and two granddaughters. However, it was very difficult, as he had many illnesses. The marriage ended in divorce when our daughter was 18. I married again, a very happy marriage, with three young adult stepchildren. We offered marriage preparation and marriage enrichment efforts together. This second husband died from brain cancer just before our 10th wedding anniversary. Matching websites, dating experiences, and moving led me to find a third husband with two adult stepchildren, and we are in a happy marriage. With all these adventures, along with professional education, I have had many opportunities to experience, observe, and learn about the importance of finding someone with many character strengths to marry and then building a good marriage partnership with them. It has not been easy, but when I have learned relationship skills and when marriage works well with love, friendship, and consultation, it's a great place to be." Susanne is originally from Canada and now lives with her husband Phil L. Donihe in Tennessee, in the United States. They often collaborate in working with individuals and couples. He is a coach and also certified with the Character Foundations Assessment™. Susanne's books can be purchased through her website www.marriagetransformation.com and many other online bookstores. Anyone wishing a discount on bulk purchases for group use or for re-selling should contact her directly. Susanne@marriagetransformation.com; www.marriagetransformation.com; www.transformationlearningcenter.com; https://www.instagram.com/marriagetransformation/; Twitter: marriage4ever; https://www.facebook.com/MarriageTransformation; https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannemalexander/; https://www.youtube.com/user/SusanneMAlexander

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      Empowered Healing - Susanne M Alexander

      www.marriagetransformation.com/store_EmpoweredHealing.htm

      Foreword – Annaliisa McGlinn, MD,

      Radiation Oncologist

      As a Radiation Oncologist, most people think that what I do is treat people with high energy x-rays in an attempt to provide a cure or to provide symptom relief for improving quality of life. But what I really do is listen, teach, and try to guide patients into living beyond their cancer. What I love about my job is the human interaction, the opportunity to provide comfort and inspire people.

      When my patients meet me, I have two goals: 1) By the end of the clinic visit, they understand their diagnosis and the rationale for the treatment options, including benefits and potential side effects; 2) I’ve opened the door for the patient and families to live beyond the cancer.

      After we finish discussing the diagnosis and treatment, I will ask about how they are coping mentally, as well as how their interpersonal relationships have been affected with spouses, kids, and friends. I let patients know that the range of emotions they are experiencing is normal. By talking about their cancer, their body energy is freed up for healing, and their immune system is elevated to fight the cancer, rather than them spending the body’s energy stuffing the emotions inside. I encourage patients to address the elephant in the room and have the tough conversations with their loved ones, tears and all, because this will bring them closer together and provide a sense of relief. Why is this? Because then each person affected by the diagnosis—patient and loved ones—feel a bond and connection rather than isolation while trying to protect the other. Knowing how hard it is to have these conversations across the kitchen table, I often recommend that patients and loved ones take short walks—as long as the patient is physically able.

      I recommend patients examine stressful relationships and try to heal them, even if it means agreeing to disagree and go separate ways in peace. Again, this frees up energy for healing, and elevates the immune system.

      I recommend patients do something every day that promotes a sense of well-being, which ultimately promotes a sense of inner peace and rest. This is defined differently for each patient. Is it music? Reaching out and speaking with an old friend? Watching birds? Looking at the garden? Playing with the grandkids or kids? This is self-affirming and again stimulates the immune system to help fight the cancer.

      I believe in the power of prayer. For those patients that believe in a Higher Power, however defined, I encourage them to pray.

      With each new patient, I talk about all of this and more, whether or not our intent is for cure or to treat symptoms to promote quality of life.

      During my time as a Radiation Oncologist, I have met many patients who have done better than one would expect. Uniformly, they all made changes in their lives that promoted love, communication, self-affirmation, and affirmation of others. These patients universally were able to use humor, allowed the tears to flow, and did the mental processing required with the diagnosis of cancer.

      I’m grateful for what my patients have taught me and the practices that I’ve learned from Dr. Bernie Siegel (Love, Medicine, and Miracles) that I use every day. Empowered Healing is in the spirit of his work, and it will guide patients through claiming their emotions, being empowered in responding to their diagnoses, and helping them and their families strive for quality of life.

      AnnaLiisa McGlinn, MD

      Dr. McGlinn is the Director of Radiation Oncology at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville Medical Center, Meadville, Pennsylvania. This facility is an integrative cancer treatment center that was founded on the holistic principles that Bernie Siegel, MD, and Barry Bittman, MD, have pioneered for many years.

      Note: If you are aware of a cancer-related organization that may wish to use this book as a fundraising tool, please connect them to Marriage Transformation.

      The websites are:

      www.marriagetransformation.com/store_EmpoweredHealing.htm,

      and

      www.marriagetransformation.com.

      You can also reach Susanne at

      Susanne@marriagetransformation.com

      or 216-255-9301.

      Craig’s blog: www.factbasedspiritguidedpath.blogspot.com

      The Context: A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPOWERED HEALING

      Once you begin traveling with cancer, whether you are the person with the diagnosis or you are a loved one, the term quality of life becomes a part of your everyday world. You may be striving to maintain the quality you had before the diagnosis and treatments began, or you may be creating new definitions of what quality looks like at each stage of the journey. This book lays out the tools we developed and used on our own journey with cancer. As you fully use them, you can be inspired to have a high-quality life, as we had.

      Responding to Cancer

      In the summer of 2007, Craig had a tumor removed from the left parietal lobe of his brain, the area that controls motor skills. It was subsequently diagnosed as Glioblastoma Multiforme, a highly aggressive form of primary cancer. From the first hour of the news that he had a tumor in his brain, he focused on the facts of his circumstance and refused to descend into speculation, worry, and anxiety. Over the subsequent weeks, he began to formulate how he wanted to respond to his diagnosis and entitled it the fact-based, spirit-guided approach. He then invited his wife, Susanne, to join with him in her role as caregiver.

      It was not until the last period of Craig’s life, in the spring of 2009, that we began to systematically write down our understanding of the components of this approach. We reflected on and reviewed what we had successfully done during Craig’s cancer journey, and we recorded what we learned in the process. We hope that our experience now benefits you. Throughout this book, you will hear Craig’s voice as one responding to a cancer diagnosis and Susanne’s voice as the caregiver. However, we have made efforts to keep our suggestions broad enough to apply across a wide range of cancers, not simply brain cancer as Craig experienced.

      Our attitude was that life is a continuous process of personal growth and transformation. Cancer is like any test or difficulty in life—it can be an opportunity to engage in this process. A vital component of the fact-based, spirit-guided approach is that scientific, spiritual, and emotional factors must work in harmony. It is then possible to achieve maximum personal growth, healing, and quality of life. We regard healing as a process that is only partially physical. Much of Craig’s healing involved relationships, his soul, and his emotions. We believe our approach extended Craig’s physical life and definitely improved its quality. We also saw ourselves as empowered advocates for Craig’s well-being, and both of us were fully involved as marriage partners in making whatever choices

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