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Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor
Harpham, a doctor and cancer survivor, offers an approach to illness that promotes physical healing and joyful living.
Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, M.D., offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term "Healthy Survivor" while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Happiness in a Storm shows you how to set the stage for the miracle of physical healing by making the best treatment choices for you, nourishing realistic hope, and taking action. But when it comes right down to it, what good is surviving if you are never happy? Harpham opens your eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness. You'll see how becoming a Healthy Survivor does more than increase your chances of a good outcome: it frees you to pursue happiness.
Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, M.D., offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term "Healthy Survivor" while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Happiness in a Storm shows you how to set the stage for the miracle of physical healing by making the best treatment choices for you, nourishing realistic hope, and taking action. But when it comes right down to it, what good is surviving if you are never happy? Harpham opens your eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness. You'll see how becoming a Healthy Survivor does more than increase your chances of a good outcome: it frees you to pursue happiness.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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September 6, 2007
Great book for those going through or who have finished cancer treatment.
October 11, 2016
Well written and helpful.
October 19, 2021
Great book. Very useful to navigate the cancer kingdom and make the best choices.
Some valuable insights into how to think, be and behave during time of great illness. A wealth of experience and advice to pick from, but not a book to read cover to cover.
A guidance for cancer patient (or support to patient) but probably not interesting for someone not in contact with the disease.
Some valuable insights into how to think, be and behave during time of great illness. A wealth of experience and advice to pick from, but not a book to read cover to cover.
A guidance for cancer patient (or support to patient) but probably not interesting for someone not in contact with the disease.
November 1, 2025
Some good insights, though it got a little repetitive and pedantic in the second half. That being said, it was interesting to think about the social/psychological changes and advances in medicine between the publication of the book and now.
October 12, 2009
Sooo long. But the title pretty much gives the gist of her message. Positive energy. Positive attitude. That kind of approach to getting through a difficult illness--she had cancer (way scarier than my stuff).
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