1st Edition
by Trish Bartley (Author)
Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer
offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness
into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a
life-threatening illness.
- Adapts Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an approach with a strong evidence base for
people with recurrent depression, for the needs and challenges of people
with cancer
- Presents the standard 8-week course of MBCT for
cancer in a flexible format that is designed to suit each reader’s own
particular timescale, context and situation
- Based on more than
15 years of program development and clinical application by the author,
and the work and experience of mindfulness teachers in other cancer
centres around the world
- Provides specific practices and
approaches tailored to support the different phases of a cancer
experience – from diagnosis and treatment to living with uncertainty
and managing life with cancer
- Features five extended stories
from people personally affected by cancer who have used
mindfulness-based practices to support them in their own experience of
illness, life and treatment
