Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer-multiple myeloma. The book includes the author's experiences, reflections, poetry and journal entries, in addition to writing prompts for readers to express their own personal story. Raab's journals have provided a safe haven and platform to validate and express her feelings. Raab views journaling to be like a daily vitamin-in that it heals, detoxifies and is essential for optimal health.
# Readers will learn to: Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their own health # Discover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotions # Learn how the process of journaling can facilitate healing # See how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way
