Title: Our Journey with Prostate Cancer
Author: Judith Anne Desjardins
Publisher: Spirit House Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9904994-0-4
Pages: 296
Genre: Non-fiction, Self-help
Synopsis
Your spirit is your most important personal weapon in the battle with cancer! Writing form the unique perspective of an oncology social worker, a holistic psychotherapist, and the wife of a patient with high-risk prostate cancer Judith Desjardins shares the intimate details of their journey and the empowering strtegies she devised to turn a pessimistic prognosis into improbable, positive, and hopeful results. This book is a firsthand picture of the emotional and psychological toll that prostate cancer takes on patients and their loved ones, and shows how it affects them on the inside-the mind, emotions, and spirit. It is her firm belief that understanding and treating these dimensions of the disease as well as the body, in a holistic approach,can lead to a better prognosis for the prostate cancer patient-and that it can also prevent family caretakers from developing their own medical problems due to stress.
About the Author
With listings in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who’s Who in American Women, Judith Anne Desjardins has mainteained a thirty-six year holistic psychotherapy practice. As an educator, she has taught nationally and in Canada, and her first book, Creating a Healthy Life and Marriage, is the winner of sixteen book awards in the United States and Canada. A Polish translation was released in 2013. She is a licensed clinical social worker, a board certified diplomat in clinical social work, and a master social work addictions counselor. She has specialty trainng in Jin Shin Do acupressure, Jungian psychiatry, homeless shelter, and outpatient substance abuse. To further her knowledge about the body-mind-emotions-spirit connection, she studied Hatha yoga and has maintained a yoga practice for the last twenty years. She received her bachelor of arts with honors from the University of Wyoming and her master of social work degree from Arizona State University.
