Diagnosis doesn't have to end in despair

(though you may pass through it)

When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness, you may feel:

• your body is your enemy
• you are alone in the world
• you aren't yourself anymore
• God (or the universe) has abandoned you
• tempted to give up

Dancing with Monsters teaches:

• your body is a comrade in the struggle against disease
• you are not alone
• by being patient with yourself when things are bad, you can rediscover and rededicate yourself to the things that are important to you...
• ...including an enriched relationship with your higher power
• let the creative process invite you to live with joy

The creative response to illness includes:

• overwhelm: a change in your body invites you into chaotic despair
• incubation: you spend time numb and seemingly inactive (trust that things are happening beneath the obvious)
• reconciliation: you recognize the changes in your body and make peace with the new normal
• rededication: you remember what's important to you and find new ways to bring it into your life

Order Dancing with Monsters and discover:

• articles introducing creative response ideas and recognizing them in real life examples
• memoir exploring how true life goes on within, around, because and in spite of illness
• fanciful stories that help you take a sideways look at parts of the process
• creative experiments enable you to engage with your own challenges and solutions…to dance with your own monsters and angels

Let the experience of chronic illness invite you to a life of chronic healing

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