dancing with cancer: using transformational art, meditation and a joyous mindset to face the challenge [large print 16 pt edition]

Positioning statement: Combining the personal and the practical, this book mixes the author’s own cancer story with the tools she discovered and adapted to support her treatment. Sales points: According to recent research, 1 in 2 people in the UK will get cancer at some point in their lives. US data reveals that in 2014 there were an estimated 14,738,719 people living with cancer in the United States alone. Includes not only the author’s inspiring account of how she is facing her own incurable cancer but also a wide range of exercises to empower specific treatment situations, such as chemotherapy, surgery and bone-marrow transplants. Publication to coincide with World Cancer Day, 4 February 2018. Synopsis: ’The wisdom and knowledge that Judy has learned from her experience with cancer can be our guide and coach.’ - Bernie Siegel MD, Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and The Art of Healing Dancing with Cancer focuses on the creation of a positive and proactive mindset with which to face the specific challenges and stages of cancer. It combines the author’s own experience of using what she calls Thought Work (including creative self-expression, healing energy work and meditation) with conventional cancer treatment in order to connect her intentions for healing to the everyday reality of a diagnosis of incurable bone-marrow cancer. The book offers guidance and inspiration not only to cancer sufferers as they undergo the various stages of treatment but also to those supporting them, enabling them to understand better the experience of the cancer patient as well as the possibilities of mind-body empowerment. Part I allows the reader to gain inspiration and reassurance from Judy’s personal cancer story, as well as put into practice her Thought Work suggestions, which include revelatory questionnaires and journaling, creative exercises (such as drawing healing mandalas) and guided meditations. Part II gives a more detailed description of the Thought Work tools, including instructions for setting healing intentions, for using mindful breathing and for cultivating an attitude of gratitude, as well as meditations for a range of cancer situations and step-by-step instructions for creating artworks. Throughout the book are examples of Judy’s own transformative artworks, which she offers along with the reminder that any creative self-expression can be healing - it is not the outcome but the physical process of doing that matters, enabling multi-level transformation.