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