Stay On is the first in a series of books by Connie Baker sharing actionable and heartfelt strategies for building resilience while facing difficult health challenges. Connie discusses her own cancer diagnosis and treatment with levity and wisdom. Her approaches to navigating the logistical and emotional challenges of navigating a health challenge will be useful to a patient, provider, or caregiver of family and friends. Stay On will bring joy and relief to readers and could not have come at a more important moment as the global pandemic poses unprecedented health challenges for us all.
Book Summary
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, crucial decisions regarding a medical team and treatment plan must be made.
This book is a roadmap. Through its pages readers will learn how to:
- Put mindfulness in action and cultivate resilience even during a health crisis
- Make decisions with confidence
- Enlist a healing dream team to create integrative care
- Support their body through treatment and healing
- Organize all the information received
- Create a healing environment
- Thrive throughout the process
- Begin planning for end of life
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.
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 plan was to write a book from the patient’s perspective last in the series, but when Connie received a breast cancer diagnosis she suddenly gained first-hand experience. Thus, this book became the priority as she wrote from the laboratory of her life.
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.
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