The Cancer Whisperer, Sophie Sabbage
The Cancer Whisperer, Sophie Sabbage
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The Cancer Whisperer
Finding Courage, Direction, and The Unlikely Gifts of Cancer

Author: Sophie Sabbage

Narrator: Sophie Sabbage

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/24/2017


Synopsis

The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer.

“I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.”

Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight 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 readers 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.

About The Author

SOPHIE SABBAGE is an inspirational writer, speaker, and facilitator who has worked in the field of human development, emotional intelligence, mind-set change, and corporate culture change for more than twenty years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy on December 20, 2015

A life-giving read! This book has given me so much to ponder. I am not a cancer patient but have a husband and a mother living with cancer. They have both chosen an intergrative course of treatment and this book has been invaluable in so many ways but certainly in helping me to understand the head sp......more

Goodreads review by Adelaide on April 01, 2017

Não é um romance, não é uma biografia, não é uma "obra" literária, então porque as 5*? Simplesmente porque é um apelo à Vida, um livro sobre o amor, um livro sobre a coragem, um livro de ajuda, uma bíblia para quem passou ou passa por um processo oncológico......more

Goodreads review by Mary on April 11, 2017

A remarkable book which charts one woman's approach to living with terminal cancer. The narrative combines hard hitting personal experience after being diagnosed (although experience of treatment is mercifully sparse) with stage 4 lung cancer at 48 with a self-help type structure based upon her prof......more

Goodreads review by Pippa on June 19, 2017

In some ways I loved this book. I found Sophie Sabbage to be very honest in the way she dealt with her cancer. She had no time for 'positive thinking' but understood that she had a perfect right to feel grief, and anger, and a lot of other emotions. However she did go and have some very dubious trea......more

Goodreads review by rambino on March 31, 2021

Speaking as someone who did lose someone from cancer (and picked this very book from that someone’s bookshelf), I wish I discovered this book years ago. It’s incredibly insightful and it is SO different in comparison to many other books revolving around cancer. Whether you are the cancer patient, or......more


Quotes

"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 bestselling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds