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Breath for the Soul Aims to Empower Readers to Practice Self-Care
San Antonio, TX, February 3, 2023 — Dr. Jan Patterson is an integrative medicine and infectious diseases physician who has been studying and practicing medicine for more than 30 years, but she is also a cancer survivor and bereaved parent who concedes that traditional medicine often overlooks the benefits of self-care for treating certain conditions. “I realized that while conventional medicine is very helpful and can do wonderful things, it’s not all that’s needed for dealing with the difficulties in life, like stress, anxiety, depression and grief,” Dr. Patterson said in a recent interview. “And through my training in integrative medicine, I’ve learned that there are simple yet effective things…
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Live Each Day With a Never-Quit Mindset: New Book Explains How
This book might feel like the darker side for some but it’s perserverance and it’s perfect timing for me. I have been through quite a bit in my life and this last year has been far too much for my body to handle. I am so appreciative of people like David who write about their overcoming journey and share it with the world. I can’t wait to read this book. I need this book!!! Here’s what it’s all about….. After his father’s premature death and his mother’s downward spiral into alcoholism, David Dennis was removed from the only home he’d ever known by Child Protective Services. Years later, his mother…
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Chimera Vividly Captures Conflicting Emotions of Long-Term Cancer Survivorship
Sacramento, CA, February 2, 2023 — Few people have survived the nightmare of a stem cell transplant gone sideways. Fewer still have had the audacity to write about the miraculous yet bewildering experience of becoming a genetic chimera. Brad Buchanan breaks this taboo and offers readers eloquent, surrealistic and profoundly moving passages about his dramatic transformation and amazing recovery. Chimera, Buchanan’s fourth book of poems, tells in lyrically oblique confessions and hallucinatory vignettes the difficult but nevertheless wonderful history and aftermath of the author’s 2016 stem cell transplant. After a rocky and near-fatal beginning, the transplant enabled Buchanan to survive a malignant blood cancer through becoming a genetic chimera (his DNA was altered through the successful…
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