Breast Cancer as a Sacred Love Journey (eBook)

Jennifer J Elam (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | First Edition
116 Seiten
Way Opens Press (Verlag)
978-0-9981315-0-4 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Table of Contents
The Stories Unfold....Page

Foreword - In Gratitude to My Love Tsunami in Motion

Introduction

I. Diagnosis and Surgery: You're Gonna Cut Me WHERE?
Mom's Birthday 2012
Nitty Gritty: Fast Dancin'
The Verdict Dire: Blissed
Jennifer, what are you up to NOW?
Reason to Live
You May Not Die!
Healthy Breasts on My Christmas Tree
I Love You a Bushel and a Peck
Clear Margins, Clear Lymph Nodes
Pink

II.Chemo: But, But I LOVE My Hair
2nd Opinions, 3rd Opinions
I Asked for 9 Million Prayers; It Just Went Up to 900 Million
My Body vs. Wise
Chemo
Chemo Earning Its' Reputation
No, Not My Hair
My Hair
Struggling with My Body's Knowing
Bald Woman and the Bald Eagle
Amping Up BJ's (well, everyone's) Prayer Life
Keeping Awareness of Life Beyond BC
The 500 Year Map
The God Who Only Knows 4 Words
You'll Do That for ME? Dust My House and....
Religious Society of Cells
Fear: Dear Cells,
Grief Whacked: In-consolable Wreck Today
A Joke
Hypocritical or Some Kind of Critical
Jesus in the Chemo Chair
Wait, I Gotta Go P..
Wait, I Have to Teach Arts & Spirituality Class: Creativity Saves Me Again
Karen Died and Now Laura Has BC Too
Joachim's Heart
Wait, I Have to Go to Oregon
Inspired by Moments of Life Lived Fully
Wait, NOW I HAVE to Hoop Dance: hoopin' and hopin'
Just Like Those De-posed Dictators: Healing Inner and Outer Tyranny
Stuck in the Mud and THEN...
Cranial Prostheses, Hats, Scarves, and Shawls
Susana Gives the 5-year-old Perspective
Sleepless Nights
Reading from Joanna, the Intuitive - PURE AWE!!
Affidity Barrelfuls
Met-a-mor-pho-sis
You Have Friends
Wellness Day
Chemo Brain: Chalk Dust in My Executive Functioning
Easter
Artichokes and Flowers

III. Radiation: You're Gonna Zap Me There TOO
5:30 am: Get Up and Drive to Lankenau Hospital THEN Go To Work...Relentless
Small Potlucks with Friends: The Bestest of the Guestests
Deep Water Dreams
The Path of Unknowing
Jesus Joins Me on the Path of Unknowing
Jesus Joins Me in Radiation Treatment
Jesus in Radiation...Still Walking Down the Road of Unknowing
Wait, I Gotta P....
Will You Just Sing Me a Lullaby?
More Healthy Breasts
Power Surges...Unstoppable
Will to Live and Other Mysteries: The Grass that Grows Through the Cement (my heroes)
The Bell Finally Rang
And BJ Checks In

IV. Post-Treatment: If the Cancer Is Gone, Then Why Is It Not Over?
Women's Voices: Living Out Loud
But, It's Not Mine: Carrying the Pathology of the Culture
Breast Cancer Survivor, NO Thriver: That Cancer Language Just Doesn't Suit Me
Deliriously and Obnoxiously Joyful 
Finding Meaning; Acknowledging Miracles; Overwhelming Gratitude
Pearl-Making: The Gifts in Suffering
Art with International Students
Well, the Hair IS Coming Back
Launched
Exercise Class
Celebrating Life and Aliveness
The Last Piece of the Art Show Finally Came: Cosmic Images as Possibilities
Learnings with Kathy
Arts and Spirituality Retreat Days

Epilog
Appendix A: Pearl Making
Appendix B: Pearls of Wisdom
Resources
Acknowledgements

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebensdeutung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: Breast Cancer • Inspirational • inspirational stories
• ISBN-10: 0-9981315-0-4 / 0998131504
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9981315-0-4 / 9780998131504