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Picking Up the Pieces: Moving Forward after Surviving Cancer Paperback – January 31, 2007

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Stepping back into everyday life after having faced a life-threatening illness is not as simple as it sounds. Now what? How do you pick up the pieces of your life and put them back together again? There are no guidelines to follow once treatment for cancer finishes--no bridge from hospital to home. How do you discuss the variety of changes you are experiencing when you may not even know how to describe them? All you know is that you are confused and that you feel out of sync with yourself and with others.

Picking Up the Pieces will guide you through this difficult time. Reassuring, realistic, and insightful, this book presents a unique four-phase process with useful daily practices to support you along your recovery journey. Drawing on the inspiring voices of cancer survivors, the authors give practical advice on how to design your own unique Healing Plan, including suggestions on ways to handle physical side effects and stress, and how to connect with yourself, with others, and with a higher power. They provide informational and educational resources and professional support services, and they suggest ways that you may find healing through your own contributions and creativity.

For the more than 10 million cancer survivors in North America who have spent months and, in many cases, years, battling disease, this book is essential for reclaiming mind, body, and spirit to move forward with recovery.

See a talk by co-author Kathy Scalzo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvINDkcLRuE
 
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This is a book of deep experience. The survivors' voices are wise and inspiring. The advice is practical, sensible, and supportive. Give it to anyone you know who has cancer. Buy it for yourself. -- James S. Gordon ― author of Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary and Conventional

Picking Up the Pieces is a wonderful and important gift for cancer survivors. It is written by two highly skilled, deeply caring women with decades of experience assisting people to effectively navigate cancer and life's other great transitions. Filled with wisdom, heart, insight, and practical advice, this book will profoundly enrich and enhance the recovery process. -- Jeremy Geffen, M.D. ― Medical Oncologist and author of The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transfo

This book is about the period after cancer diagnosis and treatment, described by survivors as “an in-between place, limbo,
a weird nothingness, a neutral zone”, or the Void....Picking Up the Pieces is easy to read, practical, moving and insightful. I liked the way in which the authors provided doable strategies for living through this difficult period, wrote about challenges to making changes, and advanced counterarguments to help the reader move ahead. I strongly recommend this book as a resource for friends, family members and clients.
  -- Anita M. Unruh ― Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Sherri Magee, Ph.D. , is an independent oncology researcher who has designed cancer recovery programs for more than fifteen years and has trained health care professionals to work with survivors. She is the cofounder of the "Abreast in a Boat" Dragon Boat Society and past executive director of the Hope House Cancer Center and chair of the "Back on Track" cancer rehabilitation program.

Kathy Scalzo, M.S.O.D., is president of a consulting group specializing in change and transition management. Over the last twenty years, she has designed and implemented change initiatives for well over 200 health care organizations. She is the past president of the Board of Hope House Cancer Society and a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Association's Physician Management Institute.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rutgers University Press; 1st edition (January 31, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813540364
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813540368
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Physalia T
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Segue: Fills a Major Need other books don't
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I have been so happy to find this book; it was exactly what I needed.
This book (Picking up the Pieces...) is a perfect segue for anyone finished with the traumas of treatment and trying to understand, transition, and adapt to a "new normal". This book validates 'the void' you feel after all treatments end, but you can't yet step into your old life, or perhaps don't want to. I felt all my concerns were felt and expressed by these amazing authors and their unique experience. Excellent companion, with exercises for building a real Recovery Plan. Great gift for yourself or a friend going through cancer. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Someone at the cancer clinic recommended that I read this book after my battle with ...
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Someone at the cancer clinic recommended that I read this book after my battle with breast cancer. I found this book so very helpful in helping to put your life back together. All of the appointments of all kinds all of a sudden stop and this helps you find your life again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for recovering cancer patients and families.
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Insightful, truthful description of the difficulty of returning to everyday life after experiencing major cancer treatment. It made me feel less alone in my experiences. I have given several copies as gifts to my cancer buddies.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great material presented in a very readable format
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I thought this book had alot of basic information presented in a very organized and engaging style. The material was very intense but the style made it very readable and provoking. This is good for anyone who has faced cancer or had a reoccurrence of the disease as it deals with the process we all go through during the crisis stage. treatment stage and then what stage. It offers hope and the process that enables one to emerge as a complete but changed person with a different perspective. It is reality and fact based but deals with the intangible aspects of a persons being separate from the body and treatment parts. It reassures one that what they are experiencing is real and universal.
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5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book
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This is a great book. I am only a 9-month breast cancer survivor, it put my mind at easse. I hate seeing or hearing all those commercials depicting breast cancer survivors as "feeling great". I have so many after effects from the chemo drugs & radiation treatment, that I kept wondering if it really was in my head. Because my girlfriend of 40+ years cannaot fathon how her aunt had the same & came out doing great, that I am not going to be well. She said she will read this book for me. It is an eye opener for anyone who thinks you will be the "normal" person you once were.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Opening new doors after treatment ends
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I am a cancer warrior and had 14 months of treatment. When I knew my treatment was coming to an end and saw this book at the library and started reading it. I knew I had to get it. It really paved way for me to deal with the after chemo experience which you do go though. Cancer not only plays on your body but your mind.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent spiritual book
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This book combines in a rounded way psycology and Christianity. It speaks the truth about how people function and how they can change.
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This book was written in layman's terms for every type to understand. They included worksheets, topical wuestions and easy to follow steps to immerging out of the darkness of cancer treatments into a new life
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My 5 stars are really based on the condition of the book which is almost in brand new shape. I am very happy with my purchase from this seller! But I do recommend Picking Up the Pieces to anyone struggling as I have been after cancer treatment. The book so far seems to be exactly what I need to help deal with the after effects of surviving cancer and the changes it brought into my life. Everything is not the same and will never be for so many different reasons.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My oncologist recommended this wellness group but i am on the waiting ...
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I needed to read this! Dealing with after Cancer is hard. My oncologist recommended this wellness group but i am on the waiting list. So i decided to go and buy the book. Awesome information and love the little add-ons from other cancer survivors! Would highly recommend this to anyone having a hard time after Cancer.
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