Beyond Your Cancer Identity
Contents
Chapter 1 Introductions, please
Chapter 2 Who I am
Chapter 3 You are now a “recoverer”
Part One: Rest
Chapter 4 A full seven hours isn’t enough
Chapter 5 Naps are your new best friend
Chapter 6 Better sleep through medicine
Chapter 7 Meditation helps you rest
Chapter 8 Exercise makes you tired (in a good way!)
Chapter 9 Advice for insomniacs
Part Two: Relax
Chapter 10 Control is an illusion
Chapter 11 Fake it till you make it positive
Chapter 12 You get five minutes a day
Chapter 13 Talk therapy helps
Chapter 14 Meditation clears your mind
Chapter 15 Yoga and breath work reconnects you to your mind and body
Part Three: Renew
Chapter 16 Change is the only constant: patient to person
Chapter 17 Language; or, what do you call yourself?
Chapter 18 Eat for your new body
Chapter 19 Nourish your spirit
Chapter 20 Work when you are ready
Chapter 21 When people don’t get the new you
Final thoughts
Chapter 22 Reintegrate the best of the old with the new
Chapter 23 Daily practices to remind you of this precious thing called life: ten hugs a day, gratitude journal, prayer, find your mantra, be kind to yourSELF