Of all lifeshocks, cancer is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous—touching friends, relatives, parents, and even ourselves at some point in our lives. Physical devastation aside, maintaining one’s personhood and dignity through treatment is one of the most daunting challenges. At age 48, happily married and the mother to a four-year-old daughter, author Sophie Sabbage was diagnosed with late-stage, “terminal” lung cancer. She was shaken to her core. She was given leaflets about how to cope with chemo, what to expect from the side effects of treatment, and how to tell her daughter she was going to die. But no one explained how to deal with the rage, hopelessness, terror, and grief. Determined to engage with cancer in a transformative way, she set out on researching and writing The Cancer Whisperer. This is not a book about how to cure cancer. This is a book about how to cure the fear of cancer—challenging the “battle with cancer” narrative, it is about living with cancer while coming to terms with our own humanity and mortality and focusing on the mental, emotional, and spiritual experience while distilling the best treatments she has found.
Join Sophie Sabbage on Tuesday, January 31st as she discusses how to:
· preserve personhood in a system that tends to see those with cancer 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.
This book 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 Brené Brown of cancer, Sophie teaches us how to be emotionally free even when we are physically curtailed.
About the author:
Sophie Sabbage is an inspirational writer, speaker, and facilitator who has worked in the field of human development, emotional intelligence, mind-set change, and corporate culture change for more than twenty years. She lives in the UK. More at: sophiesabbage.com
