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Fighting breast cancer, June 7, 2011
This review is from: Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey (Paperback)
This book is a God send for women who have been diagnosed as having breast cancer. Diana Raab is a brave lady, who has fought cancer twice and won. Diana has written this eBook about her battles or in her words, her journey.
The book pomotes "writing" as a wellbeing therapy or writing to assist healing. The book is informative, inspirational and uplifting. Two words sum up this book; survival and courage. Diana is like a person who has escaped from a burning building, only to then go back inside (mentally). She has written this eBook to help others escape from that same nightmare. In sharing her journey in this book with others, Diana is extending the power of, the writing therapy technique once again; writing for Diana is a gift that keeps on giving. The feedback she gets must be uplifting, so please buy the book and leave a review.
The book emphasizes the importance of early breast cancer detection. Reading the first part of the book I began to appreciate just how breast cancer produces a rollercoaster of emotions, starting with those dreaded test results. And, I can see how therapeutic writing could help.
The is a good book with a positive self help message.
Healing with Words
Title : A Writer's Cancer Journey
By : Diana M Raab.
Paul Kendall (k3books) @k3books on Twitter
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Diana Raab: A Woman for All Seasons, July 22, 2010
This review is from: Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey (Paperback)
No matter your life season, whether you are in the moment of joy or disillusion, clarity or confusion, sickness or health--you must read Diana Raab's ([...]) latest book Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey!
Raab is a registered nurse, author, mother of three, and also the inspirational heroine of this deeply touching memoir, which chronicles her midlife victory over a rare form of breast cancer: DCIS or ductal carcinoma in situ--cancer of the mammary glands, only detectable through a mammogram.
Diagnosed at the age of 47, Raab is painfully honest about her struggle to confront diagnosis, treatment, and ultimate recovery. She takes the reader from the calm before the storm, and into its eye, spinning along in a tempest of wonder and fury, truth and promise, and above all love, hope and courage!
Raab's book is many things: educational, thought provoking, empowering, inspirational, and empathetic. Her words resonated with me on many different levels. As a woman, I felt and understood that low-in-the belly fear she--any woman--would feel in such circumstances. The frightful worry of losing sexuality and good looks; of dying before children reach adulthood. Of ending life before it is actually finished. The author's perspective touched me as a life coach, forced me--even as I coach others--to coach myself through life's trauma, to hold on, to believe in my own strength, resiliency, and tenacity! As a writer, I turned pages in awe, amazed at the raw honesty Raab displayed, a gift we all hope to achieve with every word we write.
This book is a gift for all of the seasons of a woman's life. While Raab writes about breast cancer, her honesty and message translate well to other of life's disappointments, to those times when we question, do we leap off the dangerous precipice--or reach deep into our souls to find a new road, a new way, a new solution? Raab's message is clear, remarkable, and inspiring: keep reaching, keep stretching, and never, ever give up!
Journey with Diana! Take this trip with her; use the writing prompts and journaling exercises that conclude each chapter. Taste the poems she intersperses throughout; savor them as you would a hunger-satisfying delicacy! Know that no matter where you are in life, you are a not alone and Diana proves that with her moving words, every step of the way!
-- Catherine (Brehm) Rain, CPC
and Freelance Writer
[...].
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Insightful and Useful, July 17, 2010
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This review is from: Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey (Paperback)
Diana Raab begins her book with a memoir about her diagnosis of breast cancer and her own cancer journey. The well-written narrative is honest, insightful, inspirational and scary! Ms. Raab makes the point of how common breast cancer is among women. She knows that though she was not alone, she must fight this battle her own way. She shares that intimate knowledge in this easy to read book and leaves pages for the reader to fill in the blanks and share their own story.
On a personal note, as I read the book, I thought of my own friend who is fighting a battle with breast cancer. I will pass this book onto her. I also felt compelled to make an appointment for my long overdo mammogram.
All of that being said this book is not just about fighting cancer. It is about fighting the disbelief, depression, bitterness and fear. It is about the physical battle she had to fight as well; losing a breast, treatment and the ultimate blow of being diagnosed with cancer a second time.
The author says, "There are a number of messages I have taken from the cancer journey, but for me, the most important one is that the diagnosis of cancer should be considered a turning point that sets you free to fulfill or examine dreams that can no longer wait...In spite of everything, I try to wake up every morning happy to be alive and with joy in my heart." These two points were the culminating point of the book for me. Shouldn't we all live our daily lives like this?
Journaling brought Ms. Raab the peace and comfort that she so desperately needed. She offers guidance and hope through her courageous story and encourages the reader to write their story, as well, while giving advice for the writing process.
Finally, although this book is written for the cancer patient, I believe anyone with any ailment could use her steps and advice to promote healing physically and emotionally. I highly recommend this book to anyone needing help with healing and a positive way to get their life back on track. Reviewed by: Donetta Garman, Allbooks Review.
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