Cancer survivor O'Toole shares her experiences and expertise in alternative and complementary therapies she used to fight her breast cancer. This book helps readers establish their own plan to combat the disease.
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If you or someone in your family has been diagnosed with cancer, you’ve felt the rush of fear. “How will I get through this? What are the doctors telling me? What hope do I have?” Then you face the big choices: Is surgery the right thing? Chemotherapy? What about radiation? And somehow, in the quiet moments, you decide to move forward. You determine to be one of the more than 8 million cancer survivors today, and to live a life as wondrous as ever before.
Healing Outside the Margins can help you do just that. It’s not a book of “miracle” cures. Rather, it’s a book about making the right choices about your own cancer care. It’s about integrating the treatments your doctor has suggested with new and exciting therapies that have helped millions of cancer survivors. And most importantly, it’s a book about separating the quackery from the real and effective treatments. It’s about making important choices that will help you physically, mentally, and spiritually. In Healing Outside the Margins, author Carole O’Toole shares the results of her extensive research. After being diagnosed in 1994 with incurable breast cancer, Carole spent the next seven years researching alternative healing therapies, studying their benefits, and determining what works and what doesn’t.
Healing Outside the Margins gives you reliable, extensive information on the enormous range of complementary treatments, practitioners, and resources available today. You’ll learn:
-Step-by-step guidelines for constructing your own “action plan” for choosing complementary therapy
-What to expect from treatment sessions
-How to determine which therapies work for you
You’ll find detailed explanations of 25 valid and credible healing techniques that can help you regain energy, including:
-Massage
-energy healing
-reiki
-shiatsu
-meditation
-yoga
Healing Outside the Margins also includes interviews with over 40 complementary therapy practitioners and provides hundreds of additional sources for further information.
Healing Outside the Margins is the most important companion you can have on your path to healing and total wellness
From the Back Cover
Soaring Beyond the Boundaries
Healing Outside the Margins provides a step-by-step method for sorting through the enormous range of effective complementary cancer treatments. It shows you how to develop your own, individual integrative treatment plan, how to make critical decisions about what to use and when, how to find experienced practitioners and what to expect from them. And most importantly, how to rebuild your life physically, emotionally, and spiritually. For millions of cancer survivors, these treatments have given them results far beyond the normal “margins.”
From ancient practices to 21st century technology, you’ll find 25 proven healing techniques, including:
Acupuncture
Ayurveda
Craniosacral therapy
Chiropractic
Polarity therapy
Rolfing®
Biofeedback
Imagery
Homeopathy
Meditation
Yoga
Qi gong
Tai chi
Nutrition
Osteopathy
“Complementary therapies saved my life,” says author Carole O’Toole. In 1994, O’Toole was diagnosed with extremely aggressive inflammatory breast cancer and given 18 months to live. That’s when O’Toole began her seven years of intensive research on complementary techniques, which continue to support her physically, emotionally, and spiritually to this day. As a professional “cancer coach,” O’Toole co-created Finding My Way, one of the nation’s leading advisory services for women with breast cancer. She speaks to cancer survivors and health professionals about integrative treatments throughout the country.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid, well researched, and from the heart--indispensible!,
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This review is from: Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care (Hardcover)
As a bodywork practitioner presented with the dilemma of offering help and services to clients confronted with the trial of their lives, I had high expectations of this book. I wasn't disappointed. This book is solid, well researched, and substantive. I will recommend it without reservation to my clients. Not just clients facing cancer, but any client troubled by a chronic or acute physical condition or discomfort who seeks resources to improve their health and well-being. This takes effort, education, information, and resources. What this book offers is a structure and framework to evaluate "what's out there", and help a person to decide "Is this for me?" "Is this for me now, or later?" What I especially appreciate is the author's emphasis on trusting your own intuition---and backing that up with succinct, well-organized information to facilitate rational decision-making in support of one's intuition. This book isn't just another nice book about a cancer experience; it's a well thought out resource to think through and make decisions on developing your complementary health care. Thank you, Carole O'Toole!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Empowering and Respectful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care (Hardcover)
This book offers the reader a factual, non-biased compilation of available complementary therapies. As a cancer survivor, she teaches us that when facing a cancer diagnosis and standard allopathic therapies, we can, no we must, be an active participant in assessing all the possible treatment paths as we make our decisions and choices in our path to healing. Not only do we hope to understand what is happening to us, we must take an active role in regaining our good health. Ms. O'Toole teaches us that we must trust our selves and our abilities in this process. For when we do, we make the best possible decisions for our lives. This book is a wonderful guide for those facing treatment as well as their loved ones.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a gift,
By A Customer
This review is from: Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care (Hardcover)
This book is such a gift, written with authority, clarity, and empathy. For anyone who wonders what to expect from different complementary therapies, this book is invaluable. For those facing decisions about maintaining health while fighting cancer, this book is a blessing. The author transforms her struggle to stay alive and maintain well-being into a resource for the rest of us.
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