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 eight-week course of MBCT for cancer in a
flexible format that is designed to suit each listener's own
particular time scale, 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 centers 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