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Overview
"Fear gripped my soul when I discovered a marble-sized lump hidden in my left breast during a self-examination in July of 1991...." So begins this, one of the most powerful and inspiring personal accounts of breast cancer ever written. Breast cancer now claims the lives of 46,000 American women each year, and strikes terror in the minds of many more. The lesson of Barbara Stone's experience is that cancer need not be dreaded as a death sentence, but can better be seen as a challenge to become more alive - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Barbara Stone fought cancer with the best tools that Western medicine has been able to discover: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. She combined these treatments with the best techniques drawn from Eastern and Alternative medicine: meditation, yoga, herbs, acupuncture, cranial osteopathy manipulation, diet changes, sauna baths, and Kirlian photography.Synopsis
This is the haunting personal story of one woman's journey through breast cancer, a disease that has reached epidemic proportions and now claims the lives of 46,000 American women each year.
For Barbara Stone, cancer was not a death sentence, but a challenge to become more fully alive, an initiation into a new stage of life. She fought this illness with the best tools Western medicine has been able to discover: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But she also combined these treatments with the best tools that Eastern medicine could offer: meditation, yoga, herbs, and acupuncture.