Finding the Light in Cancer's Shadow
Author: Lynn Eib
You or your loved one has survived surgery, chemotherapy or radiation - maybe all three. What do you do now? Coping with cancer is sometimes more difficult after treatment than during it. You are left with so many questions and so few who really understand survivors' unique needs.
With her trademark humor and straight talk, cancer patient advocate Lynn Eib takes on the tough questions cancer survivors often ask themselves yet rarely speak out loud: Will life ever be normal again? Is everyone as paranoid as I am? Do I have to stay positive? What if the cancer comes back?
Lynn weaves the story of her own experience as a long-time survivor of advanced cancer and those of other cancer survivors into this hope-filled book. In these inspiring accounts, you'll discover how God can help you move out from the shadow of uncertainty that often lingers over cancer survivors and their families and find renewed purpose and joy.
What People Are Saying
George Gallup
"Our life was forever changed when we each received a cancer diagnosis, but this change has not necessarily been for the worse. Both of us have experienced the necessity of reordering our lives around new priorities. The stories in Finding the Light in Cancer's Shadow are our stories. Relying on a faith community for support, finding joy in each day, believing that we are 'survivors,' and trusting God in all things are hallmarks of the experience of living in cancer's shadow. We commend Lynn Eib for her powerful collection of witnesses to hope."
—(prostate cancer survivor since 1993) The George H. Gallup International Institute Princeton, New Jersey
Harold G. Koenig
"Anxieties about cancer don't end after treatment. No one knows that better than cancer survivor and patient advocate Lynn Eib. She has written a much-needed resource for those living in the shadow of this life-threatening disease."
—M.D. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Founder and Co-Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health Duke University Durham, North Carolina
Walt Larimore
"As a family physician who has cared for and walked alongside cancer patients for almost thirty years, I am always on the lookout for resources that bring hope and increase faith in the midst of the despair of this devastating diagnosis. This book is not only one that brought me peace and comfort to read but will be one I can enthusiastically recommend to my patients-and to you."
—M.D. Family Physician, Medical Journalist, and Best-Selling Author of God's Design for the Highly Healthy Person
Jane E. Rice
"This extraordinary book is inspirational, uplifting, and comforting to anyone facing a cancer diagnosis and to those ministering to them. Lynn remains steadfast and faithful as she shares her gift of bonding with humanity, while always trusting God's will."
—(breast cancer survivor since 1990) Vice President, Public Relations Utz Quality Foods, Inc. Hanover, Pennsylvania
Peter Ruehlman
"Lynn Eib brings her unique blend of credibility, personal vulnerability, and clinical perspective to help patients and caregivers struggling to find meaning and hope in the midst of cancer. Her book addresses the practical questions that cancer brings and discusses the issues plainly and without jargon. Yet Finding the Light in Cancer's Shadow is much more than a practical manual of how to deal with this disease. Lynn points the way out of the trap of 'cured vs. not-cured' to a freedom and peace based on faith in the One who is finally bigger than cancer."
—M.D. Medical Oncologist Cincinnati, Ohio
Dave Dravecky
Dave Dravecky's Outreach of Hope Ministry Colorado Springs, Colorado
If you or someone you love is struggling with the fear and uncertainty of living in cancer's shadow, here's your flashlight. (Desmoid cancer survivor since 1988)
Look this: Eating in America or Anne Lindsays New Light Cooking
Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It
Author: J Raymond DePaulo Jr
From a leading medical expert at Johns Hopkins, here is an up-to-the-minute, definitive guide to whats known about depression and how it can be treated.
Around ten percent of North Americans suffer from depression at some point -- and more than half havent even sought help. Now, Dr. Raymond DePaulo, one of the worlds foremost authorities on depression, provides a sensitive, thorough, and reassuring book for sufferers from depression and those who care about them. This practical guide for individuals with depression and their families -- the only totally comprehensive book in the market -- shows readers how to identify the problem, then directs them to the various forms of treatment, including medications, psychotherapy, support groups, and exercise. It is one of the few books to discuss in depth manic depression, the bipolar form of depression. Dr. DePaulo discusses both mainstream (the latest medications and talk therapies) and alternative paths and reveals the truth about the dangerous fallacies that abound about depression. Comprehensive, compassionate, and grounded in the very latest research into brain chemistry, psychology, and medications, this is a definitive, landmark roadmap to one of the most devastating -- and common -- mental illnesses.
What People Are Saying
Art Buchwald
Understanding Depression answers all the questions the layman wants the answers to. It’s a book people will refer to time and time again. This book was needed, and J. Raymond DePaulo and Leslie Alan Horvitz have done us all a tremendous service.
Andrew Solomon
Understanding Depression gives coherent form to modern science’s confused wisdom about the illness, and does so in an accessible, intelligent way.
Kay Redfield Jamison
The best place to begin the process of becoming informed.
Joseph J. Luciani
Understanding Depression is a one-stop, all-inclusive source that leaves no question unanswered . . . simply the best, most comprehensive book on depression I’ve ever read. Dr. DePaulo’s book will become required reading for all my patients.
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