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| A Note from Jan — by Jan Adrian, MSW |
Dear Friends,
In March when I was in NYC, I spent a delightful afternoon with Larry LeShan, the author of Cancer as a Turning Point, and one of the first people to study mind/body medicine in relationship to cancer.
He will be 93 this year and his mind is still as curious and discerning as ever. The book he has been working on for 20 years, Landscapes of the Mind: The Faces of Reality, has recently been published and we are reviewing it in this issue of Turning Points.
Larry is no longer able to travel, so if we want him to speak at one more conference, we will have to do it in NYC. I'd love to make that happen in 2014. The only deterrent is funding. If you have ideas about who can help with making that happen, let me know.
Save the date for a special event in June if you are in the Sacramento area. The play, Unbeatable!, will be performed for three weekends in Roseville, sponsored by Stand Out Talent. This will be a fundraiser for two non-profits in the area, including Healing Journeys. It's a great play and a great cause!
For the first time since starting Healing Journeys 18 years ago, I am giving myself the gift of a month off — traveling in Spain and Morocco with two friends for the month of May. I hope to have some adventures to share with you in June.
In the Spirit of Healing,
Jan Adrian, MSW
Founder and Executive Director
www.healingjourneys.org
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- Don't miss the west coast premier of Unbeatable! presented by
Stand Out Talent. It's a fundraiser for Healing Journeys and one other charity!
It's receiving rave reviews, and as Dr. Beth Overmoyer, Medical Oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said:
"Unbeatable shows the roller coaster ride we live daily — only with a LOT more humor!!! It is fabulous!"
Playing from
June 14 to June 30 in the Sacramento area:
More information here
Order tickets here
- Registration is now open for Continuing Education credits for health professionals for the Healing Journeys Retreats with Jonathan Ellerby, PhD. Please note that registration for the retreats and registration for CEs is separate.
To register for Continuing Education credits, or get more information, click here.
To register for the retreats, or get more information, click the links below:
Healing the Healer — Oct 29 to Nov 3
Healing Adventure — Nov 5 to Nov 10
- Reminder — We have received a small grant to allow us to gift the 3-DVD set of the Cancer-Fighting Kitchen workshop to cancer resource centers or libraries, for the cost of shipping only. The order form is now available. Learn more about the DVDs here, and order them here (do not order from our webstore).
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Dr. LeShan wrote the book, Cancer as a Turning Point. He gave Jan Adrian permission to use his title for the free conference, Cancer as a Turning Point, from Surviving to Thriving™, which is Healing Journeys' signature event. In that original book he asked patients, "What is going right in your life and how can we be sure you get more of it?" He turned the medical model on its head in that doctors and patients usually are concerned with what is wrong and how can it be fixed.
Lawrence LeShan keynoted several Cancer as Turning Point conferences. Some of us will remember singing "Happy Birthday" to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday that day at Stanford.
In LeShan's latest book he is still concerned with what we think, how we hold things, our awareness. The man who has been called "the father of mind/body medicine" organizes the expanding field of knowledge: Consciousness. It is a BIG book spanning history, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, much of life. Not an easy read, especially if you have chemo-brain. This reviewer found it worth the effort if you don't mind seeing things differently and then making choices based on your new awareness.
Someone dealing with cancer will recognize the questions of Immanuel Kant quoted on p. 57:
What can I know?
What dare I hope?
What is a human being?
LeShan gives us a delightful example of how people perceive reality differently (p. 35):
One night when my daughter was four years old, she called
me after she was in bed. She had a nightlight but told me
that she was frightened of the dark. I tried to reassure her
and told her that there is nothing in the dark to be frightened of.
She replied, "I'm not afraid of your dark. I'm afraid of my dark."
This raises the question of cultural, historic paradigms and who creates reality? Can we recognize our perceptions and does that really make any difference? Father and daughter chose a new action:
. . . leave the hall light on and her door partly open. With this
she slept peacefully for some months and then, herself, asked
to have the door closed.
LeShan speaks to the micro level of relationship between a fearful child and a respectful parent. He also addresses a different understanding of what we call reality on the macro level of geo-politics, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and terrorism in the 21st century.
LeShan closes the book on a hopeful note that rings true with my experience of cancer as a journey to healing and shalom (p. 207):
Each solution is a door we laboriously open and find new
closed doors behind. The possibilities for new growth and
new adventures are endless!
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