Chicken Soup for the Soul has made Elizabeth’s poignant true story, It’s Just a Word: Reclaiming Your Life Through Cancer — Beautifully, available to the public in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book. As a book within a book, It’s Just a Word is an inspirational, frank memoir that brings forth a distinct viewpoint — the powerful 45-page handbook was written to help others embrace life with cancer as Elizabeth did.

“No matter where you are in the mix, navigating through the health care system can be a complicated process. This book helps give power back where it belongs” to the patient. It encourages questioning, investigating and challenging to become informed. Make no mistake – while the tone of this book is often irreverent, the message is important: being a smart patient empowers you to receive the best health care possible. This is a must have reference book for every one of us.”

So often, when something “bad” happens to us, it appears to be purposeless suffering. But what if our most difficult experiences are actually rich with hidden purpose — purpose that we ourselves planned before we were born? Could it be that we choose our life’s circumstances, relationships, and events?… On Earth, in a realm of duality and stark contrast, we often encounter a lack of love. As we choose in the face of such experiences to give and receive love freely and unconditionally, we remember who we really are.

Catching the Big Fish, is one giant analogy for the underlining theme of the entire reading. The book begins, “Ideas are like fish”. The point here is that if you wade in shallow water your whole life you will catch shallow water fish that serve virtually no purpose. It is only after diving (Meditation) into deeper water, (the Unified Field) that you will begin catching larger fish (Ideas).

The planet placements in the eighth house can reveal where we find our spiritual healing, rebirth, and growth. Inside is a list of how the energy of the planets in the eighth house impacts an individual’s life.

Alicia O’Connell-Cohen was introduced to me by my Jin Shin Jyutsu practioner, Mitzi Adams. My meeting with Alicia was a well fated event because of my own allergies to white flour and sugar. Alicia has an interesting story of how she became a baker eliminating these products and using only natural ingredients… ” One day Kate asked if we could bake Christmas cookies, she had gathered some recipes she was dying to make. I explained once again that we couldn’t have sugar and she suggested we try to make some with the brown rice syrup I had in the kitchen… To see my daughter so happy was truly a holiday present!”

Professor Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer, said: “The evidence linking diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer has become stronger over the last decade and this report can play a part in people adopting healthier lifestyles. “After not smoking, it is clear that diet, physical activity and weight are the most important things people can do to reduce their cancer risk.”

“An awakened person is only unhappy when he is reminded of how people are blinded by their own self-awareness and how a current majority of humanity is fixated only on the limited identity offered by the ego. This is not personal unhappiness for an awakened person, because he is no longer attached to such a concept. In awakening, he has ended the illusion of personal unhappiness.”

Self-actualization is a term that describes the process by which you become everything you can be, living up to your possibilities and the inner dream that motivates your life. Your life is a journey that gives you the chance, through both obstacles and opportunities, to self-actualize. Doing anything less is cheating both yourself and the world.