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Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer
“To raise a child while living with cancer is to have your heart break. We have to learn how to live with broken hearts.” So says one of the mothers interviewed in this powerful, inspirational, and deeply moving book, a tapestry of voices from ordinary women coping with every mother’s nightmare: a cancer diagnosis while raising children.
It’s difficult to imagine a group more in need of attention and support than seriously ill mothers. Yet, women confronting the profound collision of mothering and cancer struggle amidst a remarkable absence of services or resources. Another Morning bridges that gap. The stories are interwoven with the author’s personal and professional reflections, drawing on her 25 years as a public health educator specializing in maternal-child health, and her experience as a mother. She explores themes of universal interest and concern for mothers: What can we do to responsibly prepare ourselves and our young for life’s inevitable losses? Can a mother ever be seen as both strong and fallible, as a whole human being?
For mothers and all those who care about them, this book is an invaluable companion and source of comfort, full of insights, guidance, and real-world wisdom.
It’s difficult to imagine a group more in need of attention and support than seriously ill mothers. Yet, women confronting the profound collision of mothering and cancer struggle amidst a remarkable absence of services or resources. Another Morning bridges that gap. The stories are interwoven with the author’s personal and professional reflections, drawing on her 25 years as a public health educator specializing in maternal-child health, and her experience as a mother. She explores themes of universal interest and concern for mothers: What can we do to responsibly prepare ourselves and our young for life’s inevitable losses? Can a mother ever be seen as both strong and fallible, as a whole human being?
For mothers and all those who care about them, this book is an invaluable companion and source of comfort, full of insights, guidance, and real-world wisdom.
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 20, 2006
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June 19, 2018
I read this book after I "finished" treatment for early stage breast cancer (IDC stage IIa, er+ pr+ her2-, no node involvement) and it was the first book about cancer that really spoke to me. It is emotional, but in a very REAL way.
Too many breast cancer books are about "silver linings" and spiritual awakenings, which I believe is a bunch of woo, so those books just irritate me. Breast cancer is horrible and devistating, there is nothing good about that. Yes, those of us who endure treatment are badass, but it's not like we had a choice. But I digress...
Christine, who gave it 2 starts, read it after I suggested it to my metastatic support group, which she was a member of until her death. Christine looked for a miracle, to keep her with her family, to the end. While this is common and understandable, I don't hope for miracles. I hope for research and scientific break throughs. I have seen too many amazing humans die of cancer to believe in miracles that make terminal cancer stop growing. She was a lovely human being, but she did not want to face mortality. This book is REAL, not woo.
It is hopeful & heart breaking, beautiful & hard to read, it is the voices of many women, through their experiences, and they bared their souls. I deeply appreciate that. Not only is it extremely brave, but it helped me put words to complex feelings that I, too, had and continue to have.
For me, this book helped me learn about myself, through these women's stories and words. I am forever greatful to them and absolutely love this book.
Hands down, it is the best cancer book I've read. I highly recommend it to people stunned by the emotional chaos after treatment is "finished". There is nothing to help one wrap their heads around the chaos and trauma of treatment, once it's done. This book addressed that for me.
I thought I was losing my mind, after I was back at work and trying to figure out what a new normal was. My body and mind was forever changed in sometimes crippling ways, but no one else noticed. I would even point things out about my abilities being less, and people would dismiss it. The women in this book talked about this and made me realize that it ISN'T just me, I'm NOT making this stuff up, and the emotional chaos is NORMAL. Thank goodness for this book, and these women. They reframed my perspective and have helped me live better with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), aka Stage IV.
I have known that MBC will eventually kill me, for over 4 years. I'm in my 40's with a school aged child at home. Like anyone in this situation, I'm a mess, but I'm less of a mess because of this book.
Seriously, read it.
Too many breast cancer books are about "silver linings" and spiritual awakenings, which I believe is a bunch of woo, so those books just irritate me. Breast cancer is horrible and devistating, there is nothing good about that. Yes, those of us who endure treatment are badass, but it's not like we had a choice. But I digress...
Christine, who gave it 2 starts, read it after I suggested it to my metastatic support group, which she was a member of until her death. Christine looked for a miracle, to keep her with her family, to the end. While this is common and understandable, I don't hope for miracles. I hope for research and scientific break throughs. I have seen too many amazing humans die of cancer to believe in miracles that make terminal cancer stop growing. She was a lovely human being, but she did not want to face mortality. This book is REAL, not woo.
It is hopeful & heart breaking, beautiful & hard to read, it is the voices of many women, through their experiences, and they bared their souls. I deeply appreciate that. Not only is it extremely brave, but it helped me put words to complex feelings that I, too, had and continue to have.
For me, this book helped me learn about myself, through these women's stories and words. I am forever greatful to them and absolutely love this book.
Hands down, it is the best cancer book I've read. I highly recommend it to people stunned by the emotional chaos after treatment is "finished". There is nothing to help one wrap their heads around the chaos and trauma of treatment, once it's done. This book addressed that for me.
I thought I was losing my mind, after I was back at work and trying to figure out what a new normal was. My body and mind was forever changed in sometimes crippling ways, but no one else noticed. I would even point things out about my abilities being less, and people would dismiss it. The women in this book talked about this and made me realize that it ISN'T just me, I'm NOT making this stuff up, and the emotional chaos is NORMAL. Thank goodness for this book, and these women. They reframed my perspective and have helped me live better with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), aka Stage IV.
I have known that MBC will eventually kill me, for over 4 years. I'm in my 40's with a school aged child at home. Like anyone in this situation, I'm a mess, but I'm less of a mess because of this book.
Seriously, read it.
October 6, 2012
When this book came out in 2006, I interviewed Linda for the magazine "Literary Mama." We discussed how struggling with a cancer diagnosis can help mothers see themselves as whole human beings, about how death, especially that of a mother, is almost unthinkable in our culture, and about the interesting approach Linda took to structuring her book.
Read the interview here:
http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/...
Read the interview here:
http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/...
June 30, 2013
The only reason I gave this book a 2 * is because being a breast cancer survivor it was just too emotional for me
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