Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD
Happiness in a Storm
Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor
“A guide to the meaning of joy and satisfaction, and the many routes to them.”—Jane Brody, New York Times
Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term “Healthy Survivor” while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Harpham opens our eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness.
“A sensible and realistic compendium of techniques that will help survivors cope with serious illness while embracing times of happiness.”—Publishers Weekly
“Speaks directly to the power of knowledge, enabling those with chronic, life-threatening, even terminal, illnesses to feel and exercise the heady freedom of informed choices.”—Dallas Morning News
Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, is the author of several books, including Diagnosis: Cancer and After Cancer. She lectures nationally on cancer and serious illness and lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and children.
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