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The Cancer Whisperer

Finding Courage, Direction, and The Unlikely Gifts of Cancer

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The Cancer Whisperer

Written by: Sophie Sabbage
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The self-published sensation and UK best seller that has helped thousands touched by cancer.

"I have cancer. Cancer does not have me."

Sophie Sabbage was 48 years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis, she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and renewal that has reshaped her life - for the better.

The Cancer Whisperer 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 empowers listeners to reject the traditional adversarial relationship with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as how to seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free even when we are physically curtailed.

Beautifully and poignantly written, The Cancer Whisperer encourages cancer patients to:

  • Direct their own treatment while preserving their personhood in a system that tends to see them 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.

As authentic as it is revolutionary, The Cancer Whisperer calls for an end to "the war on cancer" and the start of a more transformative dialogue with the disease.

©2017 Sophie Sabbage (P)2017 Penguin Audio
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What the critics say

"A brilliant new book that offers a radically different way of dealing with the disease." (Daily Express)

"Sabbage charts the physical aspects of her illness with unsparing precision." (Irish Times)

"This is medicine for the soul from a soulful cancer thriver." (Kelly Turner, PhD, New York Times best-selling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds)

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Missed the important parts. Too factual

He did not talk about his feelings and exactly how he tamed those gut wrenching fears. That is what I was looking for.

He detailed procedures in an orderly manner but to me, did not address the fears and angst of a cancer patient preparing to die, nor did he detail what he did to prepare for death - notes to people, letters to be opened at a future date, etc.

I had a hard time relating to his experience and didn’t find much constructive-no “take always” for existing cancer patients who perhaps are not as chronologically factual.

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