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9780312285456

Writing Out the Storm Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312285456

  • ISBN10:

    0312285450

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-09
  • Publisher: Griffin

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Summary

This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury-be it theirs or that of a loved one-who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries-from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong-Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.

Author Biography

Barbara Abercrombie lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband. She has published novels, books for children, and numerous articles and personal essays. She teaches in The Writers' Program at UCLA Extension, and conducts writing workshops at The Wellness Community, a nationwide cancer support group.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Something Happens
1(4)
This Is Only a Test
5(4)
What the Doctor Said
9(6)
Time Is a Mountain Lion
15(6)
Attending Your Own Memorial Service
21(6)
A Bull Pen of Patients
27(6)
Held at Gunpoint
33(6)
Leaving Yourself at the Border
39(6)
Final Straws: Plastic Bags and Polaroids
45(6)
The Garish Colors of Craziness
51(4)
Snake Oil Promises
55(6)
Inward Bound
61(4)
Tied to Railroad Tracks
65(4)
Amputating the Wrong Limb
69(4)
One Cell Going Nuts
73(6)
Dancing in Front of Christmas Trees
79(4)
Cancer Is Not a Car
83(6)
Bomb Drills and Sex
89(4)
On the Beach
93(4)
Rowing Toward the Raft
97(6)
Into the Future: Old Ladies Wearing Sun Hats, Trailing Scarves
103(4)
Frog Jokes and Guilt
107(6)
Who Am I Now?
113(6)
Blue Fingers and Brave Buddies
119(6)
Falling off Horses
125(6)
Going Crazy on Hawthorne Boulevard
131(6)
Flaunting What's Left
137(6)
Till Death Do Us Part
143(4)
Bibliography 147(4)
Acknowledgments 151

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