Are you a -

Cancer patient seeking information and tools to help fight for your recovery?

Relative, friend or caregiver of a cancer patient wanting to support them more effectively?

Survivor in remission but fearing recurrence or having difficulty re-adjusting back in the world?

Cancer support professional looking to offer psychosocial support to people in your care?

Within this best-selling book, Cancer survivor Phil Kerslake shows you how to use action and attitude to support cancer recovery. You'll learn:

. To cope with a cancer battle as you never thought you could

. What being a fighter really means

. What being an 'active patient' involves in practice

. To turn faith and hope into verbs and wishes into actions

. To convene a life path audit that will feed your will to live

. How to live in accordance with your own way of being, relating and creating to support your recovery prospects

. To create a life with more balance, meaning and fulfilment

"Whether cancer is presently part of your life or not, this is probably one of the most important books you will ever read. It is inspiring, informative, courageous, and life-affirming. It is a recipe for a beautiful life and it moved me deeply - as it will you."

- Susan Jeffers PhD, bestselling author of 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway'

"I highly recommend Phil's book ... his beautifully written way of providing helpful information will be of great benefit to others facing a cancer experience."

- Doreen Akkerman AM, Director, Cancer Information & Support Service, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia

"It is a profoundly honest and simple manual. It will help patients, their families, their workmates and their therapists."

- Dr Chris Atkinson

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What's Inside:

Introduction: What is your present challenge?

Part 1 Put your diagnosis into perspective

Dealing with misconceptions 3 2 Point of view

You can cope

Part II Take action to support healing

Treatment choices

Review lifestyle habits

Relax and meditate

Cancer support groups

Healing as teamwork

Active hope and faith 7

Mind your language

Visualise health

Affirm your future

Part III Explore and express yourself

Create your future

Humour heals

Write for release

Raising spirits with music

Part IV Life after cancer

Post treatment challenges

A life with new meaning