Speak the Language of Healing : Living With Breast Cancer Without Going to War

In this text, four women with four different spiritual perspectives describe what it feels like to be diagnosed and treated for breast cancer.

They were dismayed that the conventional vocabulary for healing is a language of battle and war.

Through their personal stories, they identify a new framework for the emotional stages of illness and a new language to talk about it.

Rather than illness as combat with victims and survivors, it is a language of relationship, integration and spirit.