Learning Through Living

Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul: Stories to Inspire, Support and Heal

From Publishers Weekly
This addition to the popular Chicken Soup series should help anyone diagnosed with or undergoing treatment for breast cancer, as well as their close friends and family members. Divided into categories such as love, healing, challenge and courage, the wide-ranging first-person accounts set a positive but realistic tone. Donna St. Jean Conti describes how a saleswoman, seeing Conti's scar from a mastectomy, whispered that she had found a lump in her breast and asked her for advice on what to do. Beverly Vote writes about the difficult problem of holding on to her sense of herself as a woman after undergoing a mastectomy and of how her husband's devotion helped her. In the face of her beloved sister Meemee's diagnosis, Barbara Curtis dealt with her fears by cooking and freezing healing foods for Meemee during her treatment (Curtis shares a recipe for Chemo Popsicles to fight nausea). Jennie Nash details how difficult it was to handle the worry about who would raise her children if she died. The editors touch all bases by including a useful account of a male breast cancer survivor. B&w drawings. (Oct.)
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Book Description
From the newly diagnosed to long term survivors and their friends and families, "Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul" shares stories of hope and healing. Heartwarming accounts of courageous women who found the strength to battle cancer with endless hope, unwavering faith and steadfast determination will empower readers to take charge of their healing process, adopt a positive attitude, and motivate them to fight and persevere in the face of what may seem like insurmountable odds. Readers will be moved to both laughter and tears as they share the lives of women, and a few men, who have fought the battle against breast cancer and won.

Learning Through Living

Learning Through Living...Some Assembly Required was written to help all of us appreciate the growth and learning we experience each passing day and the importance of setting standards for our lives and being an example to others. It is a daily motivational book making us more aware that, even in the most seemingly insignificant things, there is always a higher power present.

Learning Through Living...Some Assembly Required is being purchased in quantities by organizations for their employees to have something positive to share with others each morning. It is proving to be a very effective bonding tool. It is also being purchased by organizations to be used for fund raising.

* Please see sample page below.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Living with Breast Cancer

You're no idiot, of course. You've handled your share of bad breaks, but your breast cancer diagnosis has really thrown you for a loop. You're sorting through treatment options and expert opinions, and you're a bit overwhelmed. You just want to get better -- and get on with our life.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Living with Breast Cancer gives you practical tips, advise and inspiration from survivors and medical professionals. And, it's in a simple, easy-to-read and understandable form.

"We wished we would have had this book when we had first been diagnosed."

I hope you enjoy the sample pages
Suzanne Metzger

December 31

...Knowing the Lord Has always had a website

“What is conceived well is expressed clearly,
And the words to say it with arrive at ease.”
- Nicolas Boileau

For the past year I have been working on Learning Through Living...Some Assembly Required. I have been blessed again and again by the Lord jogging my memory and helping me understand the far reaching applications each “seemingly” insignificant event has had on my life — and, hopefully, other’s.

I had outlined most of the December stories, but I couldn’t figure out what story to use for December 31st. I wanted something very special.

One Sunday, during the silent prayer time, I was praying fervently for the Lord to let some spectacular story come to the forefront of my mind. As we ended the Lord’s Prayer, I felt disappointed because my mind was blank. I opened my eyes and realized I was staring down at the weekly bulletin. My eyes had focused on the bottom of the front page that read “www.stlukesumc.com.” I knew this was my answer, for I suddenly realized the Lord has always had a website.

You have 24 hour access on a website. You can reach almost anyone or anything on a website. You gain new information, some of it not always wanted, on a website. You have to be the one to take the initiative to operate the website, and you have the ability to shut it down anytime you want. The website is accessible from many different locations. It has taken someone a great deal of time to load the website with the information. There are times when the information you receive is not always correct because it has been supplied by the website’s “false prophets.” What an incredible connection!

If the Lord had an actual website address, I wondered what it would be. Even though I am not certain what His address would be, I do have one that I think would be appropriate: “www.iamwithyoualways.calm.” What a wonderful comfort and calm this readily accessible companionship can bring.

“And God is able to provide you with every blessing
in abundance, so that by always having enough of
everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.”
Corinthians 9:8