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OverviewConnie Baker has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES(R) Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books to help people build resilience while facing difficult health challenges, whether as patients, healthcare professionals, or caregivers of family and friends. While drafting her first book for healthcare professionals, Connie received a breast cancer diagnosis and suddenly gained first-hand experience from the patient's perspective. Receiving a new cancer diagnosis is often overwhelming for patients and the people who love them. Sometimes it feels like the world has turned upside down. Suddenly and unexpectedly, you're required to make crucial decisions regarding a medical team and treatment plan. This book is a roadmap. Through its pages you'll learn how to: Put mindfulness in action and cultivate resilience even during a health crisis Make decisions with confidence Enlist your healing dream team to create integrative care Support your body through treatment and healing Organize all the information you are receiving Create a healing environment Thrive throughout the process Planning for end of life suggestions Connie Baker guides patients and their care providers through the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Connie M Baker , Lucy HoltsniderPublisher: Connie M. Baker Imprint: Connie M. Baker Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9781734452006ISBN 10: 1734452005 Pages: 130 Publication Date: 03 May 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsBaker brings enormous wit and wisdom to a challenging subject and writes with humor and grace. - Kathryn Berg Author InformationConnie M. Baker, MS has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES(R) Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books on sustainable caregiving for healthcare professionals, family and friends, and patients when unexpectedly she received a new cancer diagnosis. The order of the books changed, and now the patient-focused book is the first one to release. Connie chose a treatment approach of integrative care, holistic cancer healing, and put mindfulness in action. Equipped with first-hand knowledge, she wrote Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer. This book guides patients and their care providers as they navigate the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change. Lucy Holtsnider is an artist, designer, and professor. In the studio, she combines monotype prints, handmade paper, and found objects to create collages and artists' books that consider climate change impacts and sense of place. She designs books and is an adjunct professor at Colorado College and Marist College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |