The Holy Spirit gently whispered into my heart, The joy of the Lord is your strength. The words came out of seemingly nowhere, but it was a message the Lord knew Id need to prepare for the cancer diagnosis that was waiting up ahead. Id soon discover, as have the other eleven breast cancer warriors in this book, that through Christ, hope and joy can abound, permeating even our darkest of days.

When Robin Storey first heard the words, 'you have breast cancer,' she burst into tears. But she soon found lots to laugh about. As a comedy fiction author, Robin couldn't help finding the humorous side as she underwent treatment, from feeling like a failure for failing her breast examination to planning rent-a-crowd for her funeral. Along the way, she collected frank and funny stories from other breast cancer survivors. If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you'll feel positive and uplifted after reading this honest, amusing and inspiring memoir. Click the Buy Button now to start reading these stories of humour and joy from breast cancer survivors.

Patsy was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer February 25th, 2013. She was 34 years old, a happy, healthy mother of 3 with no symptoms or family medical history of colorectal cancer. Her next 3 years would be filled with chemo, surgeries, CT/PET scans and disappointments as treatment failed to clear the cancer. But they were also filled with happiness, faith, love, laughter, advocacy and dancing. We put her writings together in order that others can benefit from her amazing spirit and so we can share her with the world. This is the book she always wanted to write.

Discover how yielding ourselves wholly to God, especially in the midst of challenging circumstances, lends new purpose to our lives. “Vivian Mabuni is a kind and trustworthy guide through one of adulthood’s secrets: life doesn’t go like you thought it would.”—Jen Hatmaker, New York Times best-selling author of For the Love and Of Mess and Moxie As women after God’s heart, we honestly desire to please God. We want to be used by Him and to experience the peace and fulfillment He wants for us. Yet it’s all too easy to fall into living mechanically, with a rule-based approach to the Christian life, or to focus on getting what we want when we want it. Even when we want to be willing, saying yes to whatever God asks often feels scary, and the distractions of this world get in the way. Vivian Mabuni knows this all too well, but she’s discovered that open-handed living starts with an intentional posture of the heart. Through surrender to His will, we draw closer to God in a way that makes our day-to-day lives more purposeful, powerful, and pleasing to Him. With Vivian’s warm encouragement in Open Hands, Willing Heart, you’ll learn how to step out in courageous trust as you invite God to give and take—and move and work—in your life as He sees fit. Along the way you’ll discover true joy and serenity that will carry you through every circumstance.

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy—from one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar. During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during one of the most critical presidential elections in US history, and in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists stormed the building, interrupting the certification of the electoral college. It was well past midnight when Klobuchar stood beside then-Vice President Pence to officially certify President Biden's victory. In her candid, honest, and at times bitingly funny memoir, the pragmatic senator shares insider stories from these historic moments, while also inviting readers into her personal life. An underdog in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, she built surprising early momentum--only to suspend her candidacy in order to support Joe Biden. Within weeks of returning to work in the Senate, the sudden onslaught of COVID-19 hit her family directly. Her husband got very sick and spent a week in the hospital on oxygen and a month in isolation. Klobuchar shares her experience facing a cancer diagnosis while watching her beloved father succumb to Alzheimer's. She recounts the dramatic narrative of January 6 and how close we came to losing our democracy. And, with her signature humor, she reveals what it's like to work with some of her more...well, interesting...colleagues. At the crux of these stories is a narrative of resilience – of personal resilience and the resilience of a nation – and, improbably, joy.

Stacey Smith wrote Sabotaged by Emotions while experiencing severe depression. Her heart's desire is to share the reality of living with painful emotions, and how she experiences inner peace, love, and happiness once again. Sabotaged by Emotions will help people who suffer from a mental illness, the people who support them, and give insight into the emotional pain for the medical community. There are a variety of approaches she embarks on to get better. Her spiritual life is foundational. Psychiatric drugs, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and counseling help tremendously. She works with a medical doctor who is also a Natural Pathologist. Overcoming painful emotions is not only an emotional challenge; it is spiritual and physical as well. have had the privilege of knowing Stacey from the beginning of her healing journey. There have been many dark days when Stacey felt she could not go on. Thanks to her faith, family, friends, tenacity, and amazing creativity, she is experiencing major breakthroughs. This book is a chronicle of the struggles and of the tools used to help her find the hope and strength needed to come out on the other side of her emotion and mental struggles. Gretchen H. Peacock, D.M.F.T., L.P.C. Stacey grew up in Montana, and moved to Georgia to play oboe in the Army band. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Education and taught for over twenty years. One of her most powerful childhood memories is camping and backpacking in the mountains of Montana. Stacey is now a wife and mother of five lovely daughters. She has suffered from depression periodically throughout her life. Stacey's love for the Lord and her family empowers her to work on the difficult tasks of taking care of herself as well as improving her thought life that is sabotaging her emotions.

This book examines how we design and deliver health communication messages relating to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. We have experienced major changes to how the public receives and searches for information about health crises over the last twelve decades with the ongoing shift from text/broadcast-based to digital messaging and social media. Both health theories and practices are examined as it applies to testing, tracking, hoarding, therapeutics, and vaccines with case studies. Challenges to communicate about health to diverse audiences (including the science illiterate) and across (both Western and developing economies) have been complicated by politics, norms and mores, personal heuristics, and biases, such as mortality salience, news avoidance, and quarantine fatigue. Issues of economic development and land use, trade and transportation, and even climate change have increased the exposure of human populations to infectious diseases making risk and resilience more pressing. The book has been designed to support health communicators and public health management professionals, students, and interested stakeholders and university libraries.