Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey

Diana Raab

Jan 2010 · Diana Raab on Writing Book 3 · Loving Healing Press

About this ebook

"Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey" is a compassionate andwry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse andpoet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS(early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelatedand incurable cancer--multiple myeloma. The book includes the author'sexperiences, reflections, poetry and journal entries, in addition to writingprompts for readers to express their own personal story.Raab's journals have provided a safe haven and platform to validate and expressher feelings. Raab views journaling to be like a daily vitamin--in that itheals, detoxifies and is essential for optimal health.
Readers will learn to: Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their own healthDiscover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotionsLearn how the process of journaling can facilitate healingSee how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way
Praise for Raab's "Healing With Words"
"One woman's story, beautifully told and inspiring to those for whomjournaling will ease a cancer diagnosis."
--Barbara Delinsky, author UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
"Time after time, Diana articulates incisively the thoughts and feelings thatconvey hoped-for meaning and encouragement. She is a woman who knowswhat it is to live fully in the face of mortality. She will add value to the life ofevery person who reads this book. Healing With Words resonates at a spirituallevel for me."
--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Author's proceeds from the sale of this book donated to benefit the Mayo Clinic Foundation
Learn more at www.DianaRaab.com
Another inspirational book from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
HEA039031 Health & Fitness: Diseases - Breast Cancer
SEL501000 Self-Help: Journal Writing
MED058160 Nursing - Oncology & Cancer

Ratings and reviews

We don't want to ever hear the words “You have cancer.” It stuns us, puts us in depression and makes us look at our life day to day.” Ms. Raab tells us, in the beginning, as a child, she was not allowed to express her opinions to her family, so she wrote a journal instead. Hidden in her closet when she was a child, she wrote about her experiences as being a child who “was never heard.” After she left the home and got married, she continued to write in journals. When life has finally given you hope and courage, it is most devastating to know that you might have or do have cancer. This diagnosis tore the author up and left her feeling that she didn’t want this life. Through her honest and candid remarks about how she felt, the author relates with many who have had the same thing happen to them. She doesn’t condemn the medical profession or how she and her family handled the situation. She, in a quiet, easy tone explains what she went through but at the same time, throughout the book, gives those who have been given the same diagnosis cause to ponder their thoughts on when they went through the same thing. These are her own words on how she felt, what she did and the many frustrations she went through. Regardless of how many opinions you get or comments from family members- each individual has to make decisions. It is not easy. None of us as cancer survivors want to be a burden on others, and yes there are times as the author says “They would be better without me.” But it is important that readers, either those diagnosed or their family members, read “Healing with Words.” It is true feelings and thoughts- as readers we need to know the early warning signs, get support from our family, not pity and get second opinions. It is a journey none want to take, but journaling is a great way to express thoughts- as did the author. I hope many people read this and take to journaling and talking very directly to their families about choices. Listen to interview on Inside Scoop Live Read interview with Diana M. Raab Make comment on weblog FTC Disclosure