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The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer. "I have cancer. Cancer does not have me." Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis, she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and renewal that has reshaped her life - for the better. The Cancer Whisperer chronicles Sophie's extraordinary relationship with cancer and the very effective methods she has used for dealing with her fear, anger, denial, and grief. The Bren Brown of cancer, Sophie empowers readers to reject the traditional adversarial relationship with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as how to seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free even when we are physically curtailed. Beautifully and poignantly written, The Cancer Whisperer encourages cancer patients to: * Direct their own treatment while preserving their personhood in a system that tends to see them as patients more than people. * Engage with fear, anger, and grief in healthy and healing ways instead of toughing it out, trying to be falsely positive, or collapsing into despair. * Radically shift from being a cancer victim to a cancer listener - fostering an understanding of cancer as a symptom of other underlying causes and engaging with whatever changes it calls on them to make. As authentic as it is revolutionary, The Cancer Whisperer calls for an end to "the war on cancer" and the start of a more transformative dialogue with the disease.
About the Author
I am a writer, speaker and transformational facilitator who has worked in the field of human development, mindset transformation and corporate culture change for over twenty years. During that time, I co-founded an award-winning consultancy with my mentor, Dr. K. Bradford Brown, an exceptional psychologist and theologian who was a direct student of Carl Rogers, Viktor Frankl and Alan Watts--three of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Since being diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer in October 2014, I have drawn on all my skills, courage and tenacity to pull myself back from the brink of death and create my life anew. Instead of going to war with cancer I chose to listen to it, thrive with it and transform my life in response to it. This has included redefining my work so I can continue to be of service within the limits of my illness.All my work is dedicated to awakening the mind and freeing the spirit through bold, authentic and creative engagement with the challenges of life. You can find out more about what I do at www.sophiesabbage.com. I am an insatiable student who was crawling up bookshelves at the age of two and wanted to be a writer from the age of ten. It took cancer to make me do it. I achieved a first-class BA in English Literature and Psychology before going on to study a variety of different approaches to human and organisational change. I am a global citizen with global vision. I measure leadership not by how many followers you have, but by how many other leaders you create. My passport and right to vote are among my most prized possessions.I am deeply happily married to John Sabbage and devoted to our daughter, Gabriella, who spurs me on daily to do all I can to live as long as possible.