Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

Connie Baker has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES® Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books to help people build resilience while facing difficult health challenges, whether as patients, healthcare professionals, or caregivers of family and friends. While drafting her first book for healthcare professionals, Connie received a breast cancer diagnosis and suddenly gained first-hand experience from the patient’s perspective. 

Receiving a new cancer diagnosis is often overwhelming for patients and the people who love them. Sometimes it feels like the world has turned upside down. Suddenly and unexpectedly, you're required to make crucial decisions regarding a medical team and treatment plan. 

This book is a roadmap. Through its pages you'll learn how to:

  • Put mindfulness in action and cultivate resilience even during a health crisis

  • Make decisions with confidence

  • Enlist your healing dream team to create integrative care

  • Support your body through treatment and healing

  • Organize all the information you are receiving

  • Create a healing environment

  • Thrive throughout the process

  • Planning for end of life suggestions

Connie Baker guides patients and their care providers through the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change.

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Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

Connie Baker has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES® Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books to help people build resilience while facing difficult health challenges, whether as patients, healthcare professionals, or caregivers of family and friends. While drafting her first book for healthcare professionals, Connie received a breast cancer diagnosis and suddenly gained first-hand experience from the patient’s perspective. 

Receiving a new cancer diagnosis is often overwhelming for patients and the people who love them. Sometimes it feels like the world has turned upside down. Suddenly and unexpectedly, you're required to make crucial decisions regarding a medical team and treatment plan. 

This book is a roadmap. Through its pages you'll learn how to:

  • Put mindfulness in action and cultivate resilience even during a health crisis

  • Make decisions with confidence

  • Enlist your healing dream team to create integrative care

  • Support your body through treatment and healing

  • Organize all the information you are receiving

  • Create a healing environment

  • Thrive throughout the process

  • Planning for end of life suggestions

Connie Baker guides patients and their care providers through the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change.

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Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

by Connie M. Baker
Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer

by Connie M. Baker

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Overview

Connie Baker has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES® Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books to help people build resilience while facing difficult health challenges, whether as patients, healthcare professionals, or caregivers of family and friends. While drafting her first book for healthcare professionals, Connie received a breast cancer diagnosis and suddenly gained first-hand experience from the patient’s perspective. 

Receiving a new cancer diagnosis is often overwhelming for patients and the people who love them. Sometimes it feels like the world has turned upside down. Suddenly and unexpectedly, you're required to make crucial decisions regarding a medical team and treatment plan. 

This book is a roadmap. Through its pages you'll learn how to:

  • Put mindfulness in action and cultivate resilience even during a health crisis

  • Make decisions with confidence

  • Enlist your healing dream team to create integrative care

  • Support your body through treatment and healing

  • Organize all the information you are receiving

  • Create a healing environment

  • Thrive throughout the process

  • Planning for end of life suggestions

Connie Baker guides patients and their care providers through the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781734452013
Publisher: Connie M. Baker
Publication date: 05/03/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 120
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Connie M. Baker, MS has decades of experience in healthcare and is the co-creator of the Wong-Baker FACES® Pain Rating Scale. Her professional experience inspired her to write a series of books on sustainable caregiving for healthcare professionals, family and friends, and patients when unexpectedly she received a new cancer diagnosis. The order of the books changed, and now the patient-focused book is the first one to release. Connie chose a treatment approach of integrative care, holistic cancer healing, and put mindfulness in action. Equipped with first-hand knowledge, she wrote Stay On: Build Resilience and Thrive While Facing Cancer. This book guides patients and their care providers as they navigate the often unnerving maze of healthcare choices that arise with a new cancer diagnosis, helping them learn how to thrive with grace and ease amidst inevitable change.

Table of Contents

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Stay On-A Word from the Author

The Cover

Introduction

1 Take an Inventory of Where You Are Now

2 Breathe

3 Employ Energy Conservation

4 Build Resilience

5 Community

6 Create a Healing Environment

7 Healing Dream Team

8 Pain Care

9 End of Life Care

10 RESILIENCE: The Cliff Notes

Notes

About the Author

Afterword

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