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Learning to Serve the Dying

By Gatwiri Muthara — 2019

End-of-life doulas provide a new type of caregiving to patients and families.

Read on www.aarp.org

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Cancer Transitions: Sleep

This video is part of the Cancer Transitions series from CancerControl Alberta. In this video, psychologist and sleep specialist, Dr. Sheila Garland, explains some of the causes of sleep problems during cancer treatments and recovery.

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Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Panel Discussion

Women living with metastatic breast cancer discuss what it’s like to live with a metastatic diagnosis.

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The Purpose of Pain: Finding Meaning in Suffering | Katie Mazurek | TEDxBozeman

Pain and suffering can be powerful teachers. When mixed with bravery, they can unlock the secret to an incredible life. For Katie Mazurek, an aggressive stage 3 breast cancer diagnoses at age 33 was the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Living with Cancer

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Challenges to Finding Meaning from Cancer Treatment

Clinical psychologist Wendy Lichtenthal of Memorial Sloan-Kettering describes the desire to find meaning from the cancer experience.

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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer.

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Living with Cancer—Dealing with Anger and the Question “Why Me?”

When being diagnosed with cancer, it is easy to feel anger or self-pity, but I have never allowed myself to dwell on these negatives.

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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs.

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Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness

A pioneer in the world of mind-body healing, the author provides support and guidance for those living with life-threatening illness, showing how, with the help of support groups, people can live longer and fuller lives.

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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir

When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence.

Natalie Goldberg

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