Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer - Hardcover

Siegel, Bernie; Sander, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470289015 ISBN 13: 9780470289013

Publisher: Trade Paper Press, 2009

Synopsis

faith, hope & healing

Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer

""Bernie Siegel is one of the greatest healers of our time. The stories he shares in Faith, Hope, and Healing demonstrate the healing effect of treating cancer not just with conventional medicine but by changing the way you think about your disease, the way you act toward those who love and care for you, and the way you feel about yourself. The mind is the most powerful tool you have for fighting back.""

-Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

Praise for Bernie Siegel

for Prescriptions for Living

""Bernie Siegel is a brilliant beacon broadcasting a message of hope. When high-tech medicine is supplemented with love and compassion, we have not only curing but also healing, which is what Siegel's message is all about.""

-Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words

for Help Me to Heal

""If you or a loved one have to go through major medical care . . . this book can be . . . life-saving and soul-saving.""

-Andrew Weil, M.D., the New York Times bestselling author of Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health

for 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

""Bernie Siegel dispenses spiritual medicine that's good for you, and feels good too! I highly recommend these daily doses of eternal wisdom.""

-Marianne Williamson, author of Everyday Grace

""Bernie is one of the world's most respected doctors. I would pay close attention to any prescription he offers. I read from this each day.""

-Wayne Dyer, author of Getting in the Gap

""Dr. Siegel's soul medicine is dispensed in perfect doses to uplift, inspire, enlighten, and heal you. As always, Bernie's wisdom and love gave me goosebumps, or should I say god-bumps. Buy a carton of this medicine-in-a-book and administer it to everyone you love.""

-Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Inner Peace for Busy People

for Love, Magic, and Mudpies

""Dr. Bernie Siegel has been my mentor and friend for many years. His wisdom has been a beacon of healing and humor. Love, Magic, and Mudpies is as funny, wise, and practical as its magical author. Every parent needs this book.""

-Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom

""Love, Magic, and Mudpies is a wonderful, wise, and very funny antidote to the No-Parent-Is-Perfect-Enough school of parenting. Bernie Seigel's delightful new book could only have been written by a seasoned father and grandfather who is also a pioneer of holistic medicine.""

-Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom

""Dr. Bernie Siegel is a living demonstration of the healing power of commitment, compassion, and love. What he offers the world in Love, Magic, and Mudpies is a testimony of his wisdom. No matter what ails you, a dose of Bernie Siegel and his work is sure to work magic in your soul.""

-Iyanla Vanzant, author of One Day My Soul Just Opened Up

for Peace, Love & Healing

""Bernie Siegel [is] a doctor who loves. In this age of massive, impersonal medical technology, his advocacy of human caring is a necessity.""

-Larry LeShan, Ph.D., author of Cancer as a Turning Point

""I was enthralled with this book. [This] truly great book ... combines sound thought with captivating humor.""

-Norman Vincent Peale

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In his monumental bestseller, Love, Medicine, and Miracles, Dr. Bernie Siegel broke new ground by revealing the powerful role the mind can play in fighting illness. His dramatic stories of seriously ill patients whose sheer will, determination, and love helped them survive against the odds inspired countless readers to consider the possibility of participating in their own healing. This new companion volume to Dr. Siegel's timeless classic takes the journey further.

Faith, Hope, and Healing presents the remarkable stories of what happened to patients who followed Dr. Siegel's advice. You'll meet courageous women and men who have not only been cured of cancer, but have also found deeper faith, hope, joy, and healing by coming to terms with their own mortality.

Grouped into sections on faith, hope, and healing, these first-person accounts and Siegel's insightful commentaries encourage and help you to develop a survivor's attitude and personality traits. They also offer proven strategies for getting through difficult times and discovering the gifts-true gifts-that illness can bring into your life.

Among the survivors who tell their stories here, you'll find a woman who discovered on the same day that she had lost her battle for the custody of her three sons and that her breast cancer had returned. In the midst of utter catastrophe and defeat, with no hope in sight, she discovered a love of life she had never known before. You'll also meet the woman who asked, "Why me?" when she was diagnosed with cancer, and was surprised when a little voice inside her answered, "Why not?" And, a successful veterinarian reveals how his throat cancer taught him things about pets that he had never learned in school.

All of the stories in this deeply supportive collection help you discover what Dr. Siegel calls the "side effects" of cancer: the wake-up call that urges you to begin your life anew, a heightened understanding of what really matters to you and what doesn't, and the courage to take control of your own healing process as you work with caregivers to cure your illness.

For more than twenty years, Dr. Siegel has been educating cancer patients on the importance of the spiritual life in facing and recovering from cancer. In Faith, Hope, and Healing, he helps you learn from the experiences of others how to recognize the disease as a wake-up call that leads you to seek nourishment for yourself and your life, start building a more authentic and fulfilling today, and keep it going for many years to come.

About the Author:

Bernie Siegel, M.D., speaks and runs workshops across the country and is devoted to humanizing medical care and medical education. His books Love, Medicine, and Miracles; Peace, Love, and Healing; and How to Live between Office Visits are classics in the field of healing.

Jennifer Sander and her writing have been featured on CNBC, CNN, The View, USA Today, Fortune Small Business, and Fox News, among other media outlets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470289015
• ISBN 13: 9780470289013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240